Designer Luigi Colani‘s futuristic Space Truck.

This so called ‘Space Truck’ by famous German industry-design star Luigi Colani uses 30% less fuel than comparable trucks.
And looks way better!

The online newspaper News.ch, with their column ‘Green Investment’, has enabled to present this vehicle to a wider audience in Switzerland. The truck is currently touring through various Swiss cities such as Lucerne, Berne and Basle.  With the support of climate projects such as myclimate, SuisseEMEX and Green Village, the Mercedes Benz Actros truck will drive CO2-neutral.

The Space Truck is supposed to be presented to a wider public in seven years at the World Expo 2015.

Colani develops streamlined trucks since the fifties. His goal: Saving fuel consumption through a flowing streamlined shape of the vehicles. The German controlling agency TÜV verified in 2005 that Colani’s truck uses 30% less fuel than a conventional truck. With its aeronautic curvatures, the Space Truck follows Colani’s main design characteristics: the rounded, organic forms, which he terms "biodynamic" and claims are ergonomically superior to traditional designs.

The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits.
This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos.

We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei’s philosophy:
My world is also round.

(Luigi Colani)

Colani.de
Photo: Vadian.net – luigi colani space truck

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Möbel Thöny from the Principality of Liechtenstein, created this futuristic cocoon-like egg bed called ‘Lomme’.

This naturally shaped shell combines state-of-the-art sleep enhancement technologies with a classic organic shape – the egg.

LOMME is the abbreviation of ‘Light Over Matter Mind Evolution’.

Prior to the development of the LOMME egg-bed, a 2 year study into sleeping habits and therapies for the treatment of sleeping problems has been conducted.

This bed is supposed to offer an environment which enhances all the senses – forming a place to rejuvenate, relax, meditate and of course, sleep.

The egg-shaped design gives the sleeper a ‘protected feel’ while asleep. Furthermore, the protective cocoon forming limits external noise to distance you from the outside world. One also benefits from an integrated massage system as well as a light and sound therapy capable of further reducing external noise. The bed features a series of accessories. The most interesting: An invisibly installed iPod-connection.

Lomme is generating a wave of interest about the importance of quality sleep and the environment in which we spend a third of our lives. The founders of the company have made it their mission to create a most relaxing, natural and protected place to relax and restore energy levels for the day to come.

An iPod has been invisibly installed to enable the sleeper to listen to relaxing music, sounds and guided meditations. Advice can be given on the kind of sounds recommended for waking up and falling asleep. The price is supposedly at around EUR 42’000.– Lomme.com Moebelthoeny.li (Distribution in German speaking countries)

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Slovak designer Matúš Procháczka created this ‘MAG’ magnetic concept vehicle.

Designer Matúš Procháczka steps right into the future with this innovative concept car. This car is driven by an electric engine that generates a magnetic field which propells the vehicle down the road.

With this car an internal combustion engine would be a thing of the past! There is a serious drawback however: The MAG car would require that all roads be magnetized in order for it to work…
That’s probably not going to happen for the next decades. Such a system however would substantially reduce the energy required to propel the car.

With it’s extremely futuristic design, the MAG concept car was the winner of the ‘Unseen Technology Award’ at the Interior Motives Design Award 2007. It requires technology that is still far away from being developed. Still, an intriguing example of how spectacular our future transportation system might look like.

 
The inside of the MAG concept car.

MAG’s front view.

Thedesignblog.org/concept car magnetic vehicle matus prochaczka

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This woman enjoys (…?) an exploding waterballoon on her breast:

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Cozy internet-surfing with this surf chair by designers Kenneth Lylover and Leif Sorensen from Denmark.
(Apparently, this comfortable chair is not in production yet, although the concept was first presented to the public way back in 2000!)

As more and more jobs involve surfing the internet, it is about time that ergonomically designed work stations become available for all of us. Thanks to numerous pillows to support every part of our bodies, the surf chair seems to be a most comfortable alternative to sitting upright, facing our monitor, for many hours at a stretch in a day.

Lylover’s and Sorensen’s ‘The Surf Chair®’ was winner of "Best Product" – Internet Collection at the Scandinavian Furniture Fair 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The surf chair was covered in several Danish and international magazines and news papers as Politiken (DK), Danske Møbler (DK), Form (S), Wohnen (A) and Shotenkenchiku (J) among others.

Kenneth Lylover has both a national as well as an international background; BA in Industrial Design from Designskolen Kolding, Denmark and a MA in Industrial Design from Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK.

Lylover.com

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