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Futuristic Sleek Peugeot Shoo Car Concept with Solar Panel Roof

TheFuture — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:57:44 +0000

Car concept with solar panel on the roof is not something new. But Peugeot Shoo car concept is pretty cool and futuristic. The best thing about these concept cars is that designers are focusing on developing eco-friendly and green gadgets with more and more technologies in them. This new car called “Peugeot Shoo” is also contributing something to the word “Green”. This car is all about solar glow and is designed in a triangle shape with solar roof that enable it to take energy from sun and later transform to run its electrical engine. Its sleek shape and floating parts are going to give enough space on the roads to breath. The solar panel roof somehow makes this car has futuristic look.

The car is designed in a stable triangle shape to give it plenty of design and a lot of space as well. It has a solar roof enabling energy of the sun to be capture and transformed to run its electrical engine. The car is not only a zero-emission vehicle but even the power for its electric engine is from alternate sources making it truly and completely eco-friendly. While the car can tango on its pretty awesome suspension, it amalgamates the features of ergonomic design with clean power to deliver big time.

Designer : Loreantonino via IGreenSpot via EcoFriend

ProsperPC Concept Your Future Home Monitoring System

TheFuture — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:06:11 +0000

Controlling your home security from one single system, ProsperPC concept. This futuristic ProsperPC is a home system allowing families to experience a better standard of living. ProsperPC system works by embracing the evolution of technology in the home, making the entire home to act and function as one. One of main feature of this futuristic PC is the ability to monitor the status of your house, you will be informed about its conditions brings you comfort and confidence about your house situation. A second feature, building on the ability to monitor various utilities, is the power to alert a family of wasted resources. The ability to regulate energy usage saves money and is less harsh on the environment. ProsperPC is a flexible system for the home that could be beneficial today, and even more so in the near future. Reemphasizing the ability to embrace future technology, ProsperPC can adapt and utilize prospective intelligent applications.

The interface of the ProsperPC uses surface technology, touch sensitive navigation that eliminates the need for a mouse to perform functions. Typing is performed through a displayed keyboard, either on screen or an adjacent surface that provides audible feedback for positive registration. Using the touch screen as an identification tool, biometric scanning will identify its users to allow the user to log in. This accommodates the varying settings of each user in the home. ProsperPC can function the way a laptop is used today, but it offers communication advantages that are not available. Since it serves as a monitoring system, it has the ability to interact with sensors all across the home, and the user has access to the information at any point, and with other devices, for example any tv in the home can display PC content.

HYDRO-NET Project : San Fransisco Futuristic City in 2018

TheFuture — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:55:36 +0000

How do you see San Fransisco in 2018 ? Apparently IwamotoScott Architects has a totally futuristic vision of San Fransisco that made them won $10,000 grand prize in the City of The Future contest. Their winning entry was a Hydro-Net concept that includes a ?Geothermal Mushroom? at located on the top of Bernal Hill and a ?Fog Flower? on Ocean Beach. Here?s their full series of Hydro-Net concept illustrations.

HYDRO-NET provides an underground arterial traffic network for hydrogen-fueled hover-cars, while simultaneously collecting, storing and distributing water and power tapped from existing aquifer and geothermal sources beneath San Francisco.

At key waterfront and neighborhood locales, HYDRO-NET emerges to form linkages between the terrestrial and subterranean worlds. Here new architectures bloom as opportunistic urban caves and outcroppings, fostering new social spaces and densified urban forms, fed by the resources and connectivity provided by HYDRO-NET.

What a stunning vision, San Fransisco already become one of the greenest cities in the US, but this vision totally remake San Fransisco into ecotopia in 2018.

Designer : IwamotoScott Architects via Inhabitat via LaughingSquid