How’s this for a cool concept car!

Rinspeed: eXasis transparent concept car.

Swiss automative visionary Frank M. Rinderknecht, head of Rinspeed, in collaboration with experts from Bayer MaterialScience AG created this cool concept car eXasis: a drivable glass-car with transparent high-tech plastic and a yellow trim. Built with a completely transparent body.

It has been shown for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2007. 40 years ago, Bayer presented the first "all-plastic car" at the K67 Plastics Fair in Germany (1967).

Rinspeed: eXasis transparent concept car.

Creator Frank M. Rinderknecht about the ‘Makrolon polycarbonate plastic’: "In this ethereal transparency, the true spirit of the eXasis becomes visible. An abstract idea becomes material, visions become a tangible car. Yet the eXasis still doesn’t seem to have quite arrived in our material world."

Rinspeed: eXasis transparent concept car.

If you indeed ‘literally want to be seen’, Rinspeed’s translucent hightech concept-car eXasis is the perfect vehicle for you…!

More exciting concept cars by Frank M. Rinderknecht on Rinspeed.com


 

Flo Backpack by Ivan Huber



Saturday, 27. August 2011

Yanko Design presents this stylish high-tech backpack concept by designer Ivan Huber. Designer Ivan Huber‘s stylish high-tech backpack concept.

The Flo backpack is a modular, ergonomic, and performance strength bag perfect for city trips to all day hikes. The rigid thermo-foam bags come in three flavors:
– the urban day pack
– the weekender and
– the 5-day trekker

You can choose one of these three designs and snap it quickly and securely onto the Flo frame.

The backpack is made of lightweight molded plastic, the frame features large air channels to maintain breathability and a flexible core for unrestricted mobility.

The Flo backpack looks stylish and cool and seems to be more modular and useful than most fancy looking backpacks


Yanko Design presents the Flo Backpack by designer Ivan Huber.


 

Bio-Ethanol-Fackeln von Heimdall



Monday, 16. August 2010

Bio-Ethanol-Fackel von HeimdallNeuartige Bio-Ethanol-Fackel von Heimdall.

Der Sommer geht, die dunkle Jahreszeit kommt… kein Grund für Depressionen, denn Heimdall bringt Feuer & Kraft zu Dir!

Heimdalls speziell entworfene Bio-Ethanol-Fackel für Innen- und Aussenbereiche erschafft eine unvergleichliche Atmosphäre, dank sicherer Heimdall-Technologie und Heimdall-Design:

Im Gegensatz zur herkömmlichen -gefährlichen- Bio-Ethanol-Feuerstelle, mit ihrem nervend unruhigen und transparentem Flammenspiel, wird bei der Heimdall-Fackel mittels eines Spezialdochtes und einer Röhre aus hitzebeständigem Glas, eine sehr kraftvolle Flamme erzeugt, die ohne hektisches Flackern, in angenehmen, satten Feuerfarben und ruhiger, eleganter Präsenz den umliegenden Raum erleuchtet.

Trotz ihres modernen Designs und technischer Perfektion mit Edelstahltank und Glasbrenner, verbreitet Heimdalls Designerfackel eine heimelige und gemütliche Atmosphäre, das ruhige Flammenspiel reflektiert sich im Glas und wird durch die Edelstahlfläche verstärkt in den Raum gestreut, die Konturen verschwimmen, es entsteht ein zauberhaftes Licht- und Schattenspiel, das zum Entspannen und Träumen einlädt.

Unsere Designerfackel gibt es in verschiedenen Ausführungen:

  • Typ I: Standardausführung mit geradem Rohr
  • Typ II: Mit aufgedrehtem Rohrende
  • Typ III: Als kunstvoll gestaltetes Unikat von einem Glaskünstler entworfen und in Handarbeit hergestellt, garantiert einzigartig und mit Freude gemacht.
 

Heimdall's Bio-Ethanol-Fackeln.Heimdalls Designerfackel ist technisch leicht zu bedienen, es gibt eine Füllstandanzeige und zum Löschen einen Löschstab.

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  • Flammenhöhe 50 bis 80 cm
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  • über 7 Stunden Brennzeit
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    • Wohnzimmer & Eingangsbereich
    • Terrasse, Garten und Wintergarten
    • Hotels & Restaurants
    • Clubs & Weinstuben
  • Mit Löschstab
  • 2.8 Liter-Tankinhalt
  • 30 cm Sockeldurchmesser
  • 12 cm Sockelhöhe
  • ca. 55 cm Glasrohr
  • Aus Edelstahl und Laborglas
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inkl. 10L Brennstoff, Einfülltrichter, Versand/Mwst.

Für eine Bestellung email an: ultra@heimdall-handel.ch

 

 

Bruce Branit‘s video ‘World Builder’ shows virtual reality building with ‘augmented reality’ which blend into a breathtaking future vision.

A man uses holographic augmented reality tools to build a world for the woman he loves. Reportedly World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.

Note that we might already live in virtual realities of some sort – created through our very own reality tunnels!

Exciting new developments in the area of augmented virtual reality here: Augmented Reality and 3d Internet

   

 

Burj Kahlifa in Dubai opened with spectacular fireworks.

Burj Khalifa is the tallest man-made structure currently on planet earth. The skyscraper is situated in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with a height of 828 m (2’717 ft). Construction began on 21st September 2004 and the building officially opened on 4th January 2010.

Formerly known as Burj Dubai, the tower had to be renamed Burj Khalifa in honour of the current President of the UAE and ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, who saved the completion of the tower – Dubai is basically bankrupt!

At the end of the video, it eerily looks as if the tower is exploding…

 
Burj Khalifa Dubai
The Burj Khalifa stands 828 meters in the Dubai sky.
  
 Burj Mubarak Al-Kabir: Future Tower in Kuwait. One Thousand and One Nights in Kuwait’s City of Silk.

However, an even taller tower is planned, the Burj Mubarak Al Kabir in Kuwait!

In a what is best described as ‘Persian Gulf building war’, Kuwait announced its plans to build the megalomaniac Burj Mubarak Al-Kabir tower in the city of Madinat al-Hareer (Arabic for ‘City of silk’).

It is supposed to attain a height of 1,001 meters (3,284 ft) in order to reflect the Arabian fairy tale ‘One Thousand and One Nights’. This thing is a total monster, it will be twice as tall as Taipai 101 which was the tallest until Burj Dubai, now look at the picture comparing the Burj Mubarak to the Burj Dubai.

  
 Tower of Babel (painting by Lucas van Valckenborch)
‘Tower of Babel’
Painting by Lucas van Valckenborch
And finally, the tallest of them all: Remember the Tower of Babel?

According to the Book of Genesis, the Tower of Babel (the Arabic name is Burj Babil) was an enormous tower built at the city of Babylon. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens".

According to the bible, a united humanity of the generations following the great flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, participated in the building. 

Doesn’t this remind of the masses of people from Southeast Asia who, after the devastating tsunami of 2004, travelled from the east to participate in the building of the Burj Khalifa…?

 

 

Concept Cars by Matus Prochaczka



Wednesday, 18. November 2009
Concept car by Matus Prochaczka.Matus Prochaczka‘s latest futuristic concepts cars.

These award-winning concept cars all feature a huge tire in comparison to the frame of the vehicle. The big ‘hamster wheels’ remind somewhat of old time bicycles.

Magister of arts Matus Prochaczka lives in Bratislava, Slovakia. He studied Design at the Slovak Technical University of Architecture.

His specialities are industrial design, 3D modeling and illustration. He concurrently works for Dominic Schindler Creations.

 
Concept car by Matus Prochaczka.
Allivictus Recyclone is a car concept that uses recycled material to provide a futuristic eco ride. The entire construction of this futuristic eco-conscious vehicle is a recycled mass of rubber, PVC, and PET mixed into a resin matrix. The body of the car is coated by film resin that not only protects it from sun and rain but also adds glossiness to the surface. The car generates power from Lithium-ion batteries. Prochaczka incorporated rolling bearings in wheel rings so the side rings remains static even when the car is on the move. The front big wheel turns on central hinge, which is fixed by an arm on the car’s body.
  
Concept car by Matus Prochaczka.
  
Matus Prochaczka's concept car.
More of Prochaczka’s spectacular concept cars: Coroflot.com – matus prochaczka
 

 

Tron Bike Concept by Miguel Cotto



Sunday, 18. October 2009
Tron concept bike by Miguel Cotto.

Miguel Cotto designed this ‘Tron’-like concept bike.

Designer Miguel Cotto has created the bike of the future with this sleek and robotic design, reminding the lightcycles of the movie Tron. The center chassis structure looks somewhat similar to a Harley Davidson whereas the wheel hubs are giant roller bearings.

   
Tron concept bike by Miguel Cotto. Remember the movie Tron?

Tron is a 1982 American science fiction film by Walt Disney Pictures, written and directed by Steven Lisberger. It stars Jeff Bridges, Cindy Morgan, Bruce Boxleitner, Dan Shor and David Warner. Tron was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively. Tron is famous for its distinctive visual style with stunning 3D graphics in a blazingly colorful, geometrically intense cyberspace landscape.

Tron was also one of the first harbingers of what the coming 3D Internet might look like.

   
Lighcycles from the movie Tron. Miguel Cotto’s concept bike reminds of the ‘Light Cycles’.

Light cycles are fictional vehicles designed by Syd Mead for the simulated world of the Tron universe. (Syd Mead is the industrial designer who also created futuristic vehicle designs in science-fiction films such as Aliens and Blade Runner.)

   
Enjoy the original Tron lightbike scene.

These two-wheeled vehicles resemble motorcycles and leave walls of colored light behin them. Players are in constant motion on a battle playfield, creating a wall of colored light behind them as they ride. If players hit a wall, they are out of the game – meaning their craft explodes and they die. The last surviving player in the game wins.

Miguel Cotto’s concept via:
Yankodesign.com – tron concept bike miguel cotto