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C9-S Berlinetta Sports Car Toy by Automoblox

TheFuture — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:01:36 +0000

As they say catch them young and watch them grow! The C9-S Berlinetta by Automoblox seems like going on this famous line, if one looks at the line up of sports car based toys that has been designed. The models are exact replica of the cars that one sees on the road and with it being life size. It’s as if all the dreams for the kids will come true. The toy maker has given options with variants just like the regular automakers. This proves the fact that in this competitive toy market, making toys is no more a kiddie stuff! [Buy it here]

Designer : Automoblox [Buy it here]

Insecta, Futuristic Car Inspired By A Grasshopper

TheFuture — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:09:37 +0000

Insecta, as the name suggests is something related to insects, exactly what the designer Shao Yung Yeh thought of while designing this new revolutionized car. Inspired by a grasshopper he designed this car with such a unique combination of colors and design. This is a battery powered personal vehicle that looks much like a grasshopper with its legs connected to the central chassis as a thorax. Just as the abdomen of the grasshopper, a battery pack is fixed at the bottom pretending it more like an insect. With zeal to create something alive, the designer has developed this product that is light weight, agile and eco friendly.

Yeh is a 22-year-old designer who studied industrial design at Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. The technology he envisions for Insecta is as advanced as its styling. The battery pack shifts according to the car’s direction to maintain balance and handling. It uses hub-mounted wheel motors. And the adjustable suspension is one part bug-leg, two parts Citroën, changing the height of the car to suit traffic conditions.

Yeh doesn’t see someone like General Motors or Toyota building the car of the future in the future. “I think there would be more and more independent companies building unique electric cars,” he said. “They will be looking for innovative design languages and building up their own brand identities.”

Designer : Shao Yung Yeh via Wired

SylvanSport Go Camping Trailer : A Comfort Motor Home

TheFuture — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:36:23 +0000

SylvanSport GO camping and travel trailer will give you the comfort of a motor home while maintaining the simplicity of the tent. It works like a pop up camper which can be fixed anywhere as it occupies less space. Also it is quite light compared to regular trailers thus can be pulled by even small cars. The whole set up takes a few minutes and comes out to be a size of a king size bed, which seems perfect to rest after a long drive. These beds also double up as a table thus making optimum utilization of space. Their MSRP is $8995, which includes everything, including large rear awning and poles, internal bed panels, 4 self-inflating POE air mattresses and spare tire kit as well as a long list of small items such as straps, bags, etc. Well I guess not that cheap for a travel trailer.

SylvanSport words :

This is a three-in-one towable vehicle that morphs from compact, traveling profile to rugged toy-hauler mode to spacious and comfortable camping configuration. The integrated, lightweight unit can be pulled by almost any vehicle and can carry up to 800 lb. of gear. It can also accommodate top-mount racking systems. For its toy-hauler mode, GO’s control-tilt deck releases at the front, angling the deck toward the rear for loading. The tilted deck lowers gradually back to level with a hydraulically-controlled return. The camping configuration features a weather-proof tent system and a sleeping surface equivalent to a king-and-a-half sized bed.

Designer : SylvanSport

BMW ZX-6 Futuristic Car Concept

TheFuture — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:42:38 +0000

BMW ZX-6 car concept came from the 3rd year students of Transportation Design School at Turin Based IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) for final project of Transportation Design (Designing the BMW of 2015) which is designed in partnership with BMW. The concept is focused keeping in mind the modern needs, tastes and life style of an individual. All the cars designed in this project looks like toy cars. You cannot even imagine them running on roads in the real life. There are different concepts of cars designed by the students and all of them are unbelievable in their design and concept. Check out the one that steals our attention, BMW ZX-6 car concept.

Designer : Jai Ho Yoo and Lukas Vanek via CarBodyDesign