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All Terrain Sport Coupe by Batyr Ospanov

TheFuture — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:36:26 +0000

The All Terrain sport coupe is a two seater, electrically powered vehicle with two driving modes helping the driver to run it on both smooth and rough surfaces. The first mode which is “Road Mode” keeps the car in a shape of a normal vehicle and allows it to travel along the traffic. When the user switches it to Off-Road mode the vehicle becomes higher and wider since the wheels come out and the chassis becomes higher to allow the car travel through rough terrains such as steppes and deserts. There are solar cells placed on the glassed door so that when the user stops the vehicle and lift the door, the cells can produce some extra power. Under the transparent bonnet there are two extra lights helping the user to travel through the desert during night.

Designer : Batyr Ospanov

Jaguar C-XS Concept Car With Ability To Change Its Shape and Style

TheFuture — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:07:38 +0000

The Jaguar C-XS concept car can intelligently tailor the needs of a driver by changing its shape and style in two different modes. The Saloon Mode features a higher roofline, allowing four people to seat in a comfortable manner. Alternatively, when it is in Sport Mode, the car folds the rear seats and lowers the driver’s seat to give it a sportier feel and appearance. Moreover, the interior of the car changes in this mode by rearranging the air vents, placing a large grill, changing the headlight’s shape and pushing back the roofline to make it lower. The Elastomeric Material made canopy of the car holds a frame underneath, which allows the roof to change its shape and a strong electric current flow makes it as sturdy as aluminium. Besides, the car will give the owner a sense of individuality and style depending on what the key holder is wearing. The key scans its surrounding are and accordingly changes colour into the most dominant one.

Designer : Janak Mistry

Mirage Portable Digital Chess Set by Pengtao Yu

TheFuture — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:30:13 +0000

Mirage is a digital chess set concept that includes a digital projector aside from the conventional chess pieces. This portable chess set is designed for chess enthusiasts that can track the moves of the pieces and provides different playing modes to the user as per the user’s requirement. The old fashioned mode allows two players to play face to face just like an ordinary chess set. When in online mode, a player on net acts as an opponent and the physical pieces are used to play an online game. Finally, the learning or practicing mode allows playing against a computer or watch a game to learn the moves played by chess masters.

Designer : Pengtao Yu

Stone In The Creek : Wall Basin Mixer Concept Saves Water In Efficient Way

TheFuture — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:48:15 +0000

Stone in the Creek is a wall basin mixer concept that can radically reduce the amount of water wastage during everyday use. This useful concept has two modes, one is Straight flow mode and another one is Side flow mode. Water flows straight as usual when it is in Straight flow mode, which releases water fast and in high volume, ideal for pouring water. On the other hand, the Side flow mode offers larger surface area of water than Straight flow mode but fewer volume of water flowing per second. This mode is ideal for rinsing large objects or washing hands.

Stone is common element that is found in creek. Stone and water always exist together. Stone is hard and strong; water is soft and transformable. Stone’s strong nature acts as a counterbalance to water softness. They are good partner in the nature world.

Creek is a platform for water stream to move into different ways. Without a large rock or stone blocked in the creek, the water stream move in smooth, regular and strong. When some rocks or stones are in the creek, the water flow is blocked. Then, it moves along the side of rocks. It moves in irregular and weak.

To apply this idea to develop the concept of the tap, the Dish of the tap represents the creek. When stone is pulled up, the water flows straight. When stone is pushed down, the water flows is blocked and spreads along the side of stone.

The Stone is act as “on and off” function. When the Stone turns anti-clockwise, it releases water. The Dish is water temperature control. When it turns anti-clockwise, it changes hot water. When it turns clockwise, it changes cold water.

Designer : Wong Ngo Bun

Tilt-N-Play Toy to Help Developing Basic Skills for Children

TheFuture — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:20:16 +0000

The Tilt n’ Play concept features two different stages to help developing the basic skills of Children, first one is Music Mode and another is Alphabet mode. Since these two modes come in different attachments, children will have the freedom to choose any of the modes when they want to play. The toy includes two games, each with the ability to develop hand-eye coordination a d sensory skills of your child. During the game, the child will be notified by the game whether he or she is doing right or wrong through chimes, vibrations and vibrant icons.

Designer : Hector Silva

Ferreti 560 Yacht (r)evolution with Two MAN V8-900 Engines

TheFuture — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:02:27 +0000

The Ferretti 560 is the latest and final model of Ferretti Yachts, waiting to be unveiled on the International de la Plaisance 2009 festival in Cannes, which took around two years to get into its current redesigned shape of the flying bridge of its previous versions. In this connection, Ferretti Yachts has signed a long-term partnership again with Studio Zuccon International to realize the ambition of the F560. Studio Zuccon was mainly responsible for lightning and space guiding principles, additionally; they conceived an innovative window design for the project, distinguished by portholes on the main window’s sides. This creative design really worked well with the blanched oak wood furnishings and warm tones of the interiors, increasing natural light in the lower deck.

Despite the relatively modest size of the yacht, it houses three cabins – a comprehensive master cabin, a double cabin and a twin cabin, each with own private bathroom. The F-560 comprises two MAN V8-900 engines and has a top speed of 32 knots.

Designer : Ferretti Yachts

Transport Efficient for 2020 : Combination of City Loader and AirLines

TheFuture — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:00:13 +0000

Transport Efficient 2020 is a concept vehicle that offers two different modes for driving as per requirement. First one is City Loader, a stylish and compact vehicle that can be employed for short distance city use to effectively drive through busy traffic. This vehicle is powered by electric engines and gear hub drive and the energy is stored in metal air hybrid batteries that can charge via plug and ride. On the other hand, the AirLiner mode offers long distance transportation and comprises several superconductive magnets that produce frictionless levitation to allow the vehicle hover above the street. An embedded rail in the street produces an electromagnetic field for this operation.

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Airliner

This long distance transport vehicle is actuated by superconductive magnets. Superconductors produce frictionless levitation avoiding any mechanic resistance. The vehicle hover above the street. The superconductor is cooled down by electric condensers so the particles of the material nearly stop moving. A rail embedded in the street creates a magnetic field which will be written in the superconductors, positioned at a set distance from the magnetic rail. No mechanic fixation between rail an vehicle will be required. The electromagnetic field generated by the rail also speed up the vehicle. The magnetic field is only generated under the moving vehicle and wont be of any danger for other moving vehicles crossing the rail.

The airliner consists of a drivers cab and several modules which float autonomously, so the shipping volume is expandable. If no cargo is carried the drivers cab ally with the closing module to reduce the volume. At a logistic centre close by a freeway and a city, the cargo gets unload, stored and upload to the cityloader.

Cityloader

This compact transport vehicle is designed for distances up to 400 km and the city traffic. It is powered by electric engines and wheel hubs which can be recharged via plug`n`ride concept at the logistic centre or city stations. A modifiable loading space allows a wide spectrum of use.

Designer : Tobias Förtsch

Universal Phone Is Especially Designed for Blind People

TheFuture — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:37:10 +0000

Usual mobile phones contain a small dot on the 5 key that allows the user to press the other keys even without looking on the keypad. Thus, even blind people can write text messages with conventional mobile phones. But what will they do when it comes to reading a text message? The Universal Phone concept is specially designed for blind people, but sighted people can also use it even efficiently. The keypad contains thousands of micro pins that are lowered and raised according to different modes. Moreover, these pins transforms in a Braille platform to facilitate blind people with reading and writing text messages.

Designer : Seunghan Song

Evergreen Electric Inner City Transportation by Nick Fisher

TheFuture — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:11:56 +0000

Evergreen is an innovative alternative of the existing modes of transportation in a friendly manner, both from the environmental and inner city aspects. When it comes about “inner city travel”, most of you will imagine of dirty, stressful, slow and dangerous transit. Evergreen, by getting inspired by the nature, is designed to offer a pleasurable inner city transportation experience by symbolizing the “green” lifestyle and minimize environmental damage. The everlasting green line offers a subtle accent that draws the eye of all range of people and leads the vehicle around the flowing contours and symbolic forms of nature.

The riding position of this eco friendly vehicle can be adjusted as per the rider’s requirement and one fast movement can turn the vehicle into a trolley from a motorized trike that you can drag or store anywhere. The rear wheel houses an eco electric motor that charges the battery as the front wheel turns and harness energy that is lost in breaking to charge the battery. A luggage compartment is located in between the battery and the motor where you can store your necessary stuff. It comprises a strong, lightweight and eco friendly polycarbonate structure that can be recycled several timers over using low energy.

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Designer : Nick Fisher

S 333 Toboggan Chair by Thonet

TheFuture — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:31:02 +0000

The S 333 toboggan is made in a cantilever design by using steel instead of bentwood like before, making it more beautiful and modern, while keeping the most excellent Thonet tradition. This impressively timeless and elegant piece of sports gear boasts a consistently modest design, inspired by the earlier S 333 tubular-steel-chair. The minimalist outlook of this chair has been achieved by using lightweight, durable and clear materials. The S 333 is consists of few components only, they are, a couple of runners at the side and one bar at the frontage of the seat that works as tension frame simultaneously for the seat made of open-mash and weather-resistant fabric. The toboggan can be compressed for storage and car-transportation, and when transporting up to the mountain, it can be carried as a backpack.

Designer : Holger Lange