Ninety Degrees South for your next Antarctic research trip

With any luck a few more years of global warming will leave Antarctica fit for beach volleyball and we won't need this sort of thing anymore, but a team at the Royal College of Art in London, in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, have developed a new two-person vehicle dubbed "Ninety Degrees South" that's designed for exploring the one continent that doesn't yet have a McDonalds. The Ninety Degrees South can operate on ice and snow without a problem and also comes with a smaller GPS-controlled companion unit that's supposed to scout out the terrain up ahead.

[Thanks, Mike]

[Steve @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

That and the thing looks darn cool.

[frambooz @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

"the one continent that doesn�t yet have a McDonalds."

Shh! Don't put any ideas in their head.

[elo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

LOL...yeah

[Lisa Giovanni @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

Ahaha! LOL... Thanks for the inspiration :)

[anon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

WOW...That looks like something right out of WipeOut.

[William @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

Antarctica -- the next continent to be taken over (and therefore destroyed) by tourism. Yay!

[xVariable @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

/me waves at Lisa

I'm in love with your name! It's *beautiful*!

Oh and, uh, the vehicle is pretty cool looking to.

[TZK @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

That looks like a snowmobile version of the "TUMBLER". Yeay!

[Rick @ Dec 19th 2005 12:17AM]

That thing has "build me out of Legos!" written all over it!