Archive for June, 2009
At the Geneva Motor Show in March, the gas-electric hybrid Essence made jaws drop with its commanding size, beautiful lines, and green-inspired 592-hp soul.
Unfortunately the Essence won’t make its way to production.
Infiniti’s voluptuous concept will make an appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it’ll make the run the hill climb and be joined [...]
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Tags: Essence, gas electric hybrid, Infiniti
Pocket projectors — if they aren’t quite ‘all the rage’ — crop up all over the place these days. Beamboxhas teamed up with MiLi (makers of some fine iPhone chargers) on this newest one. The MiLi Evolution Mini Power Projector works in conjunction with your iPhone or iPod touch, docking it into the unit which then acts [...]
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Tags: iPhone, Apple, Projector, beambox, ipod touch, mili, mini projectors, pocket projector
2UNFOLD Laptop Bag
Hard Graft’s 2UNFOLD laptop bag is, well, my kind of laptop bag: leather, lots of pockets and compartments, and unnecessarily complicated. Designed to transform into 8 different styles–briefcase, shoulder bag, rucksack, reversible courier (leather or canvas) and reversible clutch–it can fit a 17″ or 13″ laptop depending on which config you fold it into, and [...]
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Tags: 2unfold, Accessories, Apparel, Bags, Fashion, laptop bags, LAPTOPS, Leather Messenger, messenger bags, NOTEBOOKS, PCS, transport
BMW has just announced an upgraded version of its 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder diesel engine. The new version retains the same displacement, yet output for the European spec version is increased from 286 horsepower and 428 lb-ft of torque to 306 hp and 442 lb-ft. At the same time, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced [...]
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Tags: bmw, diesel, upgrade
Solar tent
The tent produces enough electricity to power a small town and connects to the internet wirelessly.
Telecommunication firm Orange’s latest eco tent concept exploits photovoltaic fabric to produce energy without bulky, inflexible solar panels. This power feeds gadgets that are stored in a magnetic induction pouch, and also drives a flexible LCD screen with wireless internet.
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Tags: 3G tent, Camping, CELLPHONES, Orange, solar, Solar Power, Solar tent, Tents, Wireless
the BMW M Concept is yet another example of an adept artist bringing his vision to the small screen.
Penned by Idries Noah, the M Concept was designed as BMW’s answer to the R8, packing a 540 hp 5.0-liter V10 mounted amidships and drawing inspiration from the Ferrari Dino, 250GTO and, of course, BMW’s own M1 [...]
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Tags: artist, bmw, concept, photoshop
This newly-released image shows the sun rising over Spaceport America. It hasn’t been built yet, but construction starts this Friday. It will be the beginning of the real future, the stuff dreams are made of.
Spaceport America will be the first spaceport in history, and it will host commercial operations by private space travel companies, like [...]
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Tags: GALLERY, mothership, SPACE, spaceport america, Spaceship two, Virgin, Virgin Galactic
Volkswagen’s innovative 1.4-liter Twincharger engine has taken home top honors as the 2009 International Engine of the Year, beating out BMW’s powerful 3.0-liter direct-injected twin-turbo six-cylinder powerplant by just four points.
The Engie of the Year award is handed out based on the voting results of 65 motor scribes polled from all around the globe. Some [...]
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Tags: 2009 engine of the year, 2009 international engine of the year, engine of the year, green engine of the year, international engine of the year, volkswagen, volkswagen twin charger, volkswagen twincharger, vw
“faceless” Korean artist
The International Herald Tribune today features a cover story on Sun Mu, a North Korean propaganda painter who escaped to South Korea and became known as the “faceless” artist. Though the political commentary in many of his works is quite subtle, and he has actually gotten several of his pieces removed from exhibitions on account [...]
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Tags: artist, exhibition, faceless, korea, north korean, paint, political, propaganda, south korean
Ruins, Deflation Spiral
I came across a website called 「廃墟デフレスパイラル｣ (haikyo defure supairaru, or “Ruins, Deflation Spiral”), which features tons of intriguing, interesting, and beautiful pictures of abandoned buildings and other sites of urban decay and the like across Japan.
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Tags: abandoned, building, decay, japan, Photography
Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars spent the last six years working on the development of a magnetic floating bed. A scale model of it was presented at the Millionaire Faire recently. The bed simply floats in the air, above magnets, can carry up to 900 kilos and is held in place through four very thin tethers. [...]
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Tags: comfort, dutch, floating bed, FloatingBed, Janjaap Ruijssenaars, Kortrijk, magnets, Miljonaire, million dollar bed, netherlands, novelty items, sleep, sleeping
In the hallway, if an employee walks slower than 5 meters every 3.6 seconds, an alarm and flashing lights are set off, reminding the poor startled worker that he’s an inefficient waste of air. Even better (or worse), there’s a sign on the floor in said hallways that reads, “Let’s rush: If we don’t, the [...]
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Tags: Canon, Employees
Sleep In a 747 Cockpit
Here you can spend the night onboard a real jumbo jet – on the ground! Our different room categories can accommodate one to three adults in comfort as well as a quad dormitory bed option, all with separate shared shower and toilet facilities.
visit Jumbo Hostel
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Tags: Airplanes, Jumbo Hostel
Designed by Benjamin Graindorge and Duende Studio, this tank not only looks nice, but uses some simple ingenuity to accomplish the task of water filtration.
Here’s how it works: nitrate-heavy water from your fish tank is pulled up into the garden, where it is passed over a layer of river sand, which uses bacteria to convert [...]
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Tags: concept, GREEN, Floating Garden, Fish Tanks, Aquariums
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