BMW GINA Light Visionary Model
June 14th, 2008Now this, I really gotta have!
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GINA - The BMW Group Design philosophy. Challenging established concepts, hazarding visions
Successful design arouses desire. In order to achieve this, it is more crucial than ever before that car manufacturers create the conditions that allow customers to establish a close relationship with their cars. Therefore, designers seek ways to promote and intensify people’s identification with their car that reach beyond pure aesthetics. In the premium segment in particular, customers demand cars that stir emotions and allow them to express their individuality. BMW Group Design has set another deepened objective for designing new cars that moves today’s consumers and their demand for enhanced utility and more versatility to the top of their agenda. An innovative concept introduced by BMW Group Design prepares the ground for this new approach: the GINA (Geometry and Functions In “N” Adaptions) principle grants more freedom for car design. It allows the creation of products with a design and functional range that express individuality and meet the wide variety of requirements of those who are using them.
In the 21st century, customers approach their purchasing decision with a high degree of assertiveness, clearly defined requirements and subjective concept-tions - particularly when it comes to selecting their means of transport.
In recent years, the interests and priorities that motivated them have changed and, more importantly, they have become considerably more diversified. This development will continue in the future. Today, the BMW Group is already responding to the highly diversified range of customer requirements and heightened expectations by providing services such as a substantially more varied product range, ever increasing possibilities for personalization and requirement-oriented production among others.
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iPhone 3G
June 9th, 2008
The popular iPhone goes 3G. This means that the new iPhone will be capable of more cool stuff as the 3G feature opens up a whole new dimension.
For one thing, 3G means that the data transfer speed of the iPhone increases dramatically - allowing email attachments and webpages to load twice as fast as the previous iPhone. The 3G network also allows you to do more wireless tasks (e.g. talk and surf, use maps etc..) without having to connect to Wi-Fi. This new iPhone also claims to give 5 hours of talktime on a single charge - so you can do quite a bit for quite a while.
The 3G iPhone retains the known versatility of the iPhone family - it’s a phone, an iPod and an internet browser all in one.
A whole host of new applications plus 3G technology guarantees that the iPhone 3G will be flying off the shelves when it launches!
I gotta have one!
more at Apple.com
SeeLippers - Nightlights for your feet!
December 9th, 2007
This was a nice surprise from a comment on my lighted slippers post. Steven Dunlap has taken that idea one step further by inventing SeeLippers - Nightlights for your your feet!
SeeLippers comes in various cool designs such as Caterpillar, Tropical Fish, Zoom Zoom Car and Pumpkin. It comes built-in with a neat ‘intelligent’ light system where the lights will go off when not needed - daytime for example. This will extend the life of the lithium-ion batteries that is tucked away in a child-safe compartment on the SeeLippers.
More details at the Seelippers website.
Gotta Have One!
Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
October 18th, 2007
This looks to be a cool one from Nokia. The N810 comes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a touch screen. The screen measures at 4.13″ and is WVGA with a resolution of 800×480.
It’s not a lot bigger than the average mobile phone I suppose - measuring at 72mm wide and 128mm lengthwise.Memory capacity stands at 2GB internally and it supports miniSD and microSD cards.
More photos after the jump.
Pay Per Click Management
June 24th, 2007If you spend a lot of time on the web, why not make money off of it… right? What better way to (eventually) earn a living than by doing the thing that you love - web surfing. Okay, so don’t really make money by just surfing along the web although there are programs out there that will allow you to do so.
I am talking more on those of you who own their own websites. You spend a lot of time and put a lot of effort into your corner of the internet, so why not get some returns out of it? Turn your website into a business. That is where pay-per-click could come in handy.
Over at ACSSEO.com, there is a nice little white paper addressing the topic of Pay Per Click Management. The paper starts off zooming into the two biggest names in pay-per-click advertising and then proceeds to point out the similarities and the differences. It then focuses on keyword management - the crux of the pay-per-click system - to help give you an understanding how things work.
The paper is more heavily focused into keyword bidding though so you might have to look elsewhere (maybe within the ACSSEO website) to get to know pay-per-click from a publisher’s point of view.
Overall, a useful paper to read.
One Step Closer to the Jetsons
June 5th, 2007Gress Aerospace has been developing a unique control technology for vertical take-off and landing system for a while now. The aim is to achieve a system that greatly simplifies flying and will take much less room than a helicopter. This will open up the door to
aviation vehicles in the normal urban life - kinda like the Jetsons.So far, Gress Aerospace have come up with a 40% scale unit called the e-Vader with which the development of the control system is being worked on. It will be great when they pull off a full scale model capable of carrying passengers soon!
If this works, someone will have to come up with a whole new parking system in the city!
Luminetx VeinViewer - Vein Hunting Made Easy
February 20th, 2007
Vampires take note - now there is an easy way to get to the veins!
The Luminetx VeinViewer uses near infrared light to detect veins inside our body. The near infrared light reflects off tissues surrounding veins but not the blood cells inside veins. The system picks up the reflected light, processes it and then beams a picture back onto our skin, highlighting the vein locations.
This makes it so much easier for nurses to track down a vein when you donate blood and stuff - no more multiple pokes to get to the right vein!
More info and contact details can be found at Luminetx.com
Innespace Sea Breacher - Drive A Dolphin
February 14th, 2007Now this would be a cool thing to have. The Sea Breacher is a two-seater watercraft designed like a dolphin. It is not like the traditional submersible where you sink the craft to stay underwater. The Sea Breacher stays underwater by balancing out it’s buoyancy with its ‘downforce’ producing flippers. What this does is it grants the Sea Breacher fantastic agility - literally behaving like a dolphin!
The Sea Breacher is powered by an Atkins marine rotary engine capable of churning out 175hp. Add-on a supercharger and the same engine will spit out a whopping 240hp! That is when some serious fun begins! With the agility and power combination, one can perform a dolphin leap quite easily (where the dolphin leaps out of the water through hoops and stuff).
Piloting the Sea breacher is simple enough with its innovative control systems. Two independent hand operated controls operate the main wings (dolphin flippers) while foot pedals operate the elevator and rudder system.
The whole craft is built using vinylester and fiberglass with a Nidacore PVC honeycomb core. The cockpit canopy is the same as that mounted on the F-22 Raptor.
I gotta get me one of these!
built by Innespace
Flying Walrus For The Military
January 29th, 2007
It flies. It’s the size of a football field. And it looks like a huge pickle… kind of.
According to DARPA, the Walrus flies via a combination of aerodynamics, thrust vectoring and gas buoyancy generation and management. I’m guessing that the aerodynamics part deals with drag reduction; the thrust vectoring deals with movement (forwards, backwards, up and down) while the gas buoyancy keeps the whole barnyard afloat in the air.
I don’t know if this thing will ever be built but Lockheed Martin and Aeros Aeronautical Corps. were awarded the contract.
Combine this flying warehouse with a host of flying soldiers equipped with battle robotics and you get one heckuva floating strike base!
Picco Z - World’s Smallest RC Helicopter
December 17th, 2006If you have ever wanted to own an RC helicopter but never had the space to fly one, then the Picco Z would be the one to get. The Picco Z weighs in at about 10g and is about the size of an adult’s palm.
A rechargeable Li-Poly battery powers the helicopter unit and gives about 15 minutes of flight time on a full charge. The RC unit runs on six AA size batteries.
The Picco Z remote control unit can operate three different infrared frequencies so that three helicopters can fly at once. What would be interesting then is to fly two helicopters with on controller running on the same frequency! To make it even more challenging, have one Picco Z pointing away from you and have the other pointing towards you - let the carnage begin!A fantastic gift for the holiday season I must say.
