Archive for the 'Out of the Box' Category
BMW GINA Light Visionary Model
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Now this, I really gotta have!
PRESS RELEASEGINA - The BMW Group Design philosophy. Challenging established concepts, hazarding visionsSuccessful 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 [...]
Innespace Sea Breacher - Drive A Dolphin
Wednesday, 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 [...]
Batman In A Honda?
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006Here is Honda’s entry for the Design Challenge section of the LA Motor Show (which was won by the HUMMER O2).The first thing that struck me was that it looks kinda like the classic batmobile with the twin cockpit concept.
Labeled as the Honda Extreme concept, the strength of this car lies in its ‘recyclable sustainability’. [...]
HUMMER O2 - The Breathing Car
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006This GM’s HUMMER O2 concept won the LA Auto Show Design Challenge. With the design challenge theme being ‘Environmental Sustainability’, the HUMMER O2 concept fits the bill and offers a whole lot more.
What’s so great about it you say? Well, this car makes its own oxygen! The HUMMER O2 is fitted with [...]
Cellphone Low on Power? Charge with Water!
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006I picked this neat gadget up off HipTech Blog.
Anyone who has ever owned a [tag]cellphone[/tag] has been in this situation more than once: you are waiting to receive (or make) some important calls but your state-of-the -art cellphone is really low on power. With no [tag]charger[/tag] in sight, you pray that your batteries hold up [...]
5 Patented Bizzare Ideas!
Monday, July 17th, 2006Since everybody else in the gadget blog corner is doing off-the-shelf kinda gadgets, I thought I’d explore a different route just to add color to the gadget blog world.
Today, I’m gonna present 5 [tag]bizzare[/tag] [tag]patented[/tag] gadgets. This will be fun!
1. AUTOMATIC HAIR WASHING MACHINE
US patent no. : D489481
inventor : Nobuyuki Minami - Osaka, Japan
Sit [...]
Tesla’s Electric Car
Sunday, July 9th, 2006Cars nowadays are getting better and better. More horsepower, better styling, cool gadgets and luxurious interior. One problem though - they still need to run on some kind of fossil fuel.
Alternative fuels are being proposed but it does not look like a fully hydrogen powered car is going to hit the mainstream market [...]
Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak A Reality?
Sunday, May 28th, 2006In 2003 (that’s the date on the source news), a Japanese inventor came up with an invisibility coat. His invention granted near-invisibility by displaying a picture of what is behind you onto the coat. Now, scientists from the UK and the USA have come up with what seems to be sound theory for an [...]
Book Radio
Monday, May 22nd, 2006Nothing beats a good [tag]book[/tag]. So if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! Or add things to ‘em - like a radio maybe.
From the cranial cavities of Vinay Venkatraman and Pei Yu comes this cool [tag]book radio[/tag] thingamajig.
So how does it work then? Just like your run-off-the-mill book, of course. Turn [...]
Firestorm Sparkplug
Monday, April 24th, 2006An interesting invention of [tag]Robert Krupa[/tag]’s. His added twist to the good ol’ [tag]spark plug[/tag] seems to have pushed the device into another dimension.If you didn’t know, the spark plug is needed to provide combustion in an internal combustion engine - if you have to fill your car up with gasoline, then you own an [...]
