Underwater Panoramic Maps / Google Ocean View
We’ve added the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world. With these vibrant and stunning photos you don’t have to be a scuba diver—or even know how to swim—to explore and experience six of […]
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Level 10 M Gaming Mouse / BMW Group x DesignworksUSA x Thermaltake
Computer Mouse designed by BMW Group DesignworksUSA revolutionizes the world of gaming. A futuristic piece of High Tech gives a boost to electronic gaming / Global product launch of Thermaltake´s Level 10 M Mouse in August 2012. Together with Thermaltake, renowned provider for electronic gaming accessories and based in Taiwan, BMW Group’s think tank of creative […]
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AIRPod (Compressed-Air Powered Vehicle) / Tata Motors
An amazing affordable auto that runs on air! AIRPod is the culmination of MDI studies on pollution and urban mobility. This concept will be the first to leave the production line in spring 2009. MDI will respond to an invitation to tender of the city of Paris, “Autolib'”, and is already the subject of applications for […]
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Tandem Duct Aerial Vehicle / Aerofex
In January 2012, Aerofex presented its recent work at the American Helicopter Society Future Vertical Lift Conference in San Francisco. The technology discussed utilizes ejector dynamics to augment the thrust and control of ducted-fan aircraft. The goal of the effort is to simplify vertical flight, in this case by eliminating the complexity of cyclically-variable rotors. […]
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Water Light Graffiti / Antonin Fourneau (Digitalarti Artlab)
The Water Light Graffiti is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. […]
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Urbanana (Urban Farm) / SOA
In 2012, French practice SOA created the Agricultural Urbanism Lab (LUA) for the study and implementation of agricultural innovation within the fast-growing urban context. ‘Urbanana’, wedged between two residential buildings, is an interior garden space devoted to the cultivation of banana species including those no longer available in Europe, along with waste management and exhibition...
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2012 Oregon International Air Show (25th Anniversary)
Last Sunday, I had the privilege to return to one of my oldest interests, a love of aircraft and appreciation of the design and technology of flying machines. As the son of an Air Force jet pilot, it’s in my blood, it’s in my DNA. As a twenty-one year old man in Saigon, my father, […]
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The V Motion Project / Assembly
The Motion Project was a collaboration between a lot of clever creative people working together to create a machine that turns motion into music. The client for the project, Frucor (makers of V energy drink), together with their agency Colenso BBDO, kitted-out a warehouse space for this project to grow in and gathered together a […]
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Media-ICT / Cloud 9 Architects (Enric Ruiz-Geli)
The winner of World Architecture Festival‘s World Building of the Year 2011, Media-ICT, 22@, Barcelona, Spain, Cloud 9 Architects / Enric Ruiz-Geli The Media-ICT building was commissioned by The Consortium of the Zona Franca CZFBand 22@ of Barcelona. 22@ is an experimental district with a powerful, distributed and accessible, energy load. Part of the Districlima network, where new […]
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KURATAS / Suidobashi Heavy Industry (Kogoro Kurata & Wataru Yoshizaki)
Japanese electronics company, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, has unveiled, over the past weekend at Tokyo’s Wonder Festival (in Makuhari just outside Tokyo), a 13 ft super-robot which can be controlled by any smartphone. This mind-blowing mecha robot is equipped with a weapons system, a gatling gun capable of shooting 6,000 BB bullets a minute; the guns fire when the […]
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Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid
The 918 Spyder prototype combines high-tech racing features and electro-mobility to offer a fascinating range of qualities: An emission level of just 70 grams CO2 per kilometre on fuel consumption of three litres/100 kilometres (equal to 94 mpg imp, 78 us mpg) truly outstanding even for an ultra-compact city car, on the one hand, combined […]
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Supersonic Freefall (CGI) / Red Bull Stratos
Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, will attempt to transcend human limits that have existed for 50 years. Supported by a team of experts Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the […]
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