Perhaps the most interesting bit Nissan pioneered with the Land Glider is the ability to lean into turns like a motorcycle. While this isn’t an entirely new concept, it’s a first for Nissan and the technology seems to be very well implemented in the Land Glider.’
- Autoblog.
I think we all have this conversation, what did the segway provide for our culture and society. What need was it addressing? so i wonder about this cool gadget, at least you can sit on it. The future for elderly and wheel chairs? who knows…..
As part of an original advertising campaign promoting the agileness of a Toyota car, two typographers Pierre&Damien and a pro-race pilot Stef van Campenhoudt collaborated to design a specific font… with a car.
The Oga bed by Ozlem Kok is a step forward to help people get rid of these problems. Allowing people to lie down and raise up their foot to balance their blood circulation/people with gastric problems to lie to their side/people with numbness or spine aches to stretch their body, this modular bed lets the user get rid of many problems which otherwise can become chronic.
click on the link to see more images. I just have one sentence, can we do this with airline seats!? that is all i am asking. especially for red eye flights. woah, an idea! a business model for jet blue, design seats for that type of commute for red eye flights, since they do a lot of that, with their east west coast philosophy.
The Fiat Cinque Tank, a dream bulldozer custom-built by ironsmith Kogoro Kurata, consists of an old Fiat 500 body mounted on the caterpillar tracks of a cheap secondhand tractor. The farm machine can only reach a speed of 3 kilometers per hour, turning a trip to the nearest convenience store into a 2-hour adventure, according to Kurata. But the classic look of the cabin no doubt impresses the neighbors, and the working power shovel comes in handy when obstacles block the way.
this is a quick information blog of blogs. A simple collections of oxcullent findings out on the web.
(currently I am shifting gears about how this blog will evolve. For quick and updated information there are links in the info section - google reader and twitter)