Yup, it is. Well, actually it’s a concept car, created for BMW by Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design). The goal was to design “the BMW of 2015, interpreting the language evolution and the trademark essence, in view of the company’s future perspectives”. Whatever that means. I just know it looks pretty [...]
Posts Tagged ‘future’
The 10,000 Year Clock: Our Stonehenge?
The Long Now Foundation has purchased a high desert mountain top property in eastern Nevada as the site for their planned public 10,000 Year Clock. Inventor and Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis designed the 8 foot prototype pictured above, and is now designing the mechanisms that would be used in a large scale version that will tick [...]
Picture(s) of the Week: The Lilypad Floating Ecopolis
Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut calls the auto-sufficient amphibious city Lilypad a “floating ecopolis for climate refugees”. The floating structure is “directly inspired by the highly ribbed leaf of the great lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia increased 250 times.”
You can read all about it and view an astonishing gallery of the city’s design right here.
Pulp Science: Robot Suit Hal Elicits Tears of Joy from Geeks Everywhere
Cyberdyne’s Robot Suit HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is “a cyborg-type robot that can expand and improve physical capability.” Cool. Guess what else it improves? My chances at being a superhero!
Can any comic book nerd look at this suit without thinking of all those times (s)he cried himself to sleep, wishing (s)he was Iron Man? Dude, [...]
The Touchless Remote: Turning Couch Potatoes into Wizards
While Apple and every other gadget producing company on the planet is busy developing and incorporating touchscreens into their products, Bang & Olufsen are leap frogging to the next sci-fi inspired innovation: touchless gadgets!
The Touchless is a prototype remote that will not only control the television, stereo, and dvd player — but all the appliances in [...]
