pirelli, the tyre manufacturer and erotic-calendar publisher came out with a slogan in 1974: “the legs of your car”. how could they know, that one day, their leg&car thing will come true…

legs? the future of transportation?

while flying cars – what most of the people expect in future – seem to be quite far away, other ways of transportation without wheels could knock out pirelli and others much faster than expected.

theo jansen, who made the strandbeests, shows – even if it never was his idea – how the end of the wheel could look like. if you want to see the strandbeests waking up to life, visit theo jansen´s homepage at www.strandbeests.com