Getting from A to B has never been more exciting than it was in 2015. We've got the best transportation stories of the year for you.

From inside the Oculus Rift headset, players get a 3-D look at the field while headphones provide realistic sound. Teams capture the footage by filming their practices with 360-degree cameras, so the experience inside the VR headset looks and sounds like the real thing rather than a video game.

Designer Behnaz Farahi's 3-D printed vest can say "back off" without ever uttering a word thanks to eye-tracking controlled movement.

the NFL made no secret of its desire to bring American football to a new international stage.

Come time for Super Bowl 100 in the year 2066, football will likely bear little resemblance to the sport we now know.

Professional football may face a shortage of talented players as researchers understand more about head injuries and parents and young players follow recommendations for reducing risk.

Andrew Wasserman from Strivr explains how virtual reality helps top athletes get better, and how the technology is getting more and more realistic.

LG's Signature Fridge and Samsung's Family Hub Refrigerator concepts are a glimpse of the future of connected, touchscreen and app-controlled refrigerators that might even order their own groceries.

4K is so 2015. This year LG will begin selling an 8K television. We don't know what it will cost yet or what you might be able to play on it, but it's pretty cool.

WIRED executive editor Joe Brown checks out a temperature regulating coffee cup, a connected flowerpot, a remote pet food dispenser and a very loud speaker that doubles as a beverage cooler.

Print those selfies immediately! Polaroid's Snap camera is perfect for any party and it costs less than $100.

Perhaps the most audacious product on display at CES 2016 is Ehang's concept autonomous single-occupancy drone, the 184. The $200,000 to $300,000 helicopter will offer rides up to 23 minutes at the push of a smartphone app button.

CES is a seemingly endless bonanza of product debuts. Everything from cars and drones to headphones and televisions is on display and in mind-boggling quantities. These products are WIRED's favorites.

Drones, throwback gadgets and the ever growing world of connected Internet of Things gear topped WIRED's CES 2016 trends.

Chevrolet just won the race to produce a truly affordable electric vehicle with triple-digit range. WIRED transportation editor Alex Davies takes the new car for spin at CES 2016.

The new social mobile app Peach is like a mashup of Twitter and a Slack group chat with some nice integration to other features on your phone like fitness, weather and music. Also, it lets you throw cake at friends.

RFID tags embedded in uniforms will give football teams, players and fans unprecedented deep data to measure athletic performance, even in live games.

The Powerball jackpot is over a billion dollars but what are your chances?

Robot museum guides, bitcoin ATMS, and levitation trains – no this isn’t a sci-fi movie, its a travel guide. In this episode of Good As Gold, we give tech-lovers the thing they’ve been missing: tech-centric travel recommendations. Get a closer look at two of the most advanced cities in the world with the help of travel pros Claire Marshall and Peter Bragiel.

These are some of coolest cars at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show. The affordable electric Chevy Bolt, Nissan's super-burly Titan Warrior truck, and Chrysler's actually cool hybrid minivan.

WIRED design editor Robbie Gonzales checks out the engineering and many uses of incredibly durable and versatile tarps built for relief agencies.

Seawall-topping king tides occur when extra-high tides line up with other meteorological anomalies. In the past they were a novelty or a nuisance. Now they hint at the new normal, when sea level rise will render current coastlines obsolete.

Visualization specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robert Hurt, tells us how he balances scientific accuracy and creativity when creating stunning pieces of art that double as realistic depictions of space.

At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory visualization specialist Robert Hurt breaks down the plausibility of sci-fi planets and galaxies in “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” and “Alien."

All those pretty plays designed by Vince Lombardi, Bill Walsh and Bill Belichick, and executed to perfection by Bart Starr, Joe Montana and Tom Brady will, in the future, be digitized and optimized into an ideal gameplan.

The application of artificial intelligence to play-calling is already upon us. Last spring, two students at North Carolina State built a model to predict whether an NFL team would pass or run, information that would hugely benefit defensive coordinators.

Mike Seymour goes behind the visual effects that earned “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” an Oscar nod. See how Industrial Light & Magic crafted complex action sequences, detailed environments, and realistic characters with the help of advanced motion-capture technology and performances from actors like Lupita Nyong’o.

The stargazer spends its entire life looking like it just walked in on something...unseemly. The fish, which ambushes prey from the sea floor, also sports venomous spines and an electric shock.

More than 20 years after it first made us believers, The X-Files is back—and it's convinced the truth is still out there.

Winter Storm Jonas is hitting the East Coast hard. Yeah, you’ve heard this before and been burned, but too many forecasts are aligning for this one to be a fluke.

Slice through traffic jams aboard the $999 electric UScooter, which cruises at 18 miles per hour, folds for quick storage on a bus, train or under the desk. Yeah, it's a kick scooter but it's the coolest kick scooter on the road.

Star Wars and hip hop together as they were meant to be. WIRED's Eric Steuer demonstrates how to get original trilogy action figures doing sick headspins.

As Super Bowl 100 played out in all its enormity last night, Super Bowl 50 looked tiny by comparison, the way the Earth now looks to our colonists in space. And yet it’s instructive to look back on that long-ago spectacle in the San Francisco Bay Area to see just how far the game has come, and society with it.

Victor Krummenacher, co-founder and bassist in legendary California rock band Camper Van Beethoven and WIRED managing art director, performs "If You Don't Break My Heart, I Don't Stand A Chance" at WIRED's San Francisco offices.

Photographer and filmmaker Reuben Wu narrates a selection of his images documenting the amazing blue 'lava" that flows across the sulfurous landscape of Kawah Ijen Crater on Java, Indonesia.

Jon Cheng and the Brooklyn Boulder Gym are working together on a real life video game for rock climbers.

Load up your phone with some crucial apps that'll help you better enjoy the biggest game of the year.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Blogger Christen Rochon breaks down her top three picks for the lucky lady in your life. Brought to you by eBay

Still stumped on what to get your guy for Valentine’s Day? Check out three techie-approved gifts, perfect for any guy on your list. Brought to you by eBay

Car-free urban areas are all the rage. Now San Francisco has one, at least temporarily, thanks to the Super Bowl. WIRED transportation editor Alex Davies looks at the best way to move in a city already snarled with traffic.

Ransomware is a rising type of malware that locks your keyboard or computer until you pay a ransom, typically in Bitcoin. Find out how the sophisticated hacks happen and learn what you can do to avoid falling victim to them.

Until truly great natural-recognition gesture tech catches on and we get RFID chips embedded in our forearms, smart rings could be the closest thing to truly seamless wearable technology.

The Bay Bridge, which links San Francisco and Oakland, is being methodically dismantled, piece by incredibly heavy piece. Here's how 2,500 ton truss supports will be removed.

In 2004 scientists discovered a large, near-earth asteroid named Apophis. Initially, it was predicted to impact the earth in 2029, leading to global devastation. Thankfully, it’s now expected to miss. Physicist Marina Brozovic from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains how her team used measurements and statistics to track the potentially catastrophic mass.

As a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marina Brozovic studies and measures near-earth asteroids—you know, the ones that can potentially cause catastrophic damage. Watch as Brozovic explains how her team tracks the orbit of these large masses and how NASA would prepare if one were to come barreling towards earth.

Whether you're celebrating Valentine's Day with a long-term partner or just trying to spare your single self a little heartache, there's an app to go along with your plans.

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a robotic cockroach capable of squeezing through tight spaces. Someday swarms of robo-roaches could be sent into disaster areas like earthquake rubble to search for survivors.

The Super Bowl is as much about the commercials as it is the football, but this year the ads weren't made for your big TV.

If you’re not crashing, you’re not flying. At least that’s the idea behind the Drone Racing League—a relatively new organization where drone pilots compete by racing high-performance aircrafts through tight and intricate courses. Find out what it’s like to fly one of the technically advanced drones from the pilots who are paving the way.

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