Actually it’s a Bugimen, designed by Ehsan Moghaddampour for a future where driving is totally computer controlled leaving you as a bored passenger. Fortunately the Bugimen is designed for hot off roading so just sit back and enjoy the bumpy ride.
Designer: Ehsan Moghaddampour
Nowadays if you have a house, it’s reasonable to assume you have a lawn, and that means you need equipment to keep it manicured. Unfortunately that can be costly so Gustav Landberg designed one machine that does the job of 3; a mower, leaf collector, and snow blower. The concept is perfect for first time home owners and for people short on storage space.
Designer: Gustav Landberg
Vacuum cleaner that not only attracts and addresses adults, or rather parents, but also their children. The children are invited to help out with the cleaning of their home in a fun, responsible and inspiring way. The children can ride on the vacuum cleaner and welcomes them to help out during cleaning.
Designer: Kristina Andersson
The Water Shelter project responds to the needs of rural populations in developing countries who live in areas of recurring floods, with a geographical focus on the Zambezi basin in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The design provides the user with the necessary tools and information to migrate temporarily and efficiently. Encouraging self sufficiency at each stage of the disaster.
Designer: Robert Nightingale
Pegasus is an alternative solution to the current manually operated wheelchairs for paraplegic people. Unfortunately more often and not a person in a wheelchair is viewed internationally as a symbol for disability. A lot of wheelchair drivers do not feel disabled and experience similar dimensions to ordinary people.
Designer: Porsche Design Studio
Under the direction of Mazda’s new global design director, Laurens van den Acker, the challenge given to the team was to invent a novel means of registering motion in vehicles whether they’re moving or still. Nagare achieves that goal while also signaling a fresh design direction for future Mazda vehicles.
Design: Mazda [ Via: The Cool Hunter ]
Compact, dynamic but ever so slightly too small, Smart’s all-new fortwo is significant for several reasons. For a start, this is the first Smart to bypass the burgeoning grey market and be officially imported into the USA.
The aim of the concept is wide usage of alternative and experimental materials for the interior and exterior design. The body of the prototype is made of fiber silicon so it can not be deformed in case of an accident and also it can change shape, modifying the configuration of the vehicle to the more spacious or more compact, depending on the preferences of use.
Designer: Alexander Kotlyarevsky
The BMW Welt by Coop Himmelb(L)Au will officially open to the public on the weekend of October 20/21, 2007. Visitors from all over the world are invited to experience the exciting new building. As planned the handing over will be on June, 30 2007.
Architect: Coop Himmelb(L)Au
With the new Civic Type R, Honda has gone down the admirable route of ignoring the current horsepower battle and choosing character and poise. That’s not to say the new Type R isn’t fast – it’s enormously rapid.
Design: Honda
The instant success of the Experience Lab (project which aims to introduce people to their radiators without actually showing them) triggered the idea at Jaga (radiator brand) to bring the same experience and emotions into a moving platform or medium that allows to mimic this wherever in the world Jaga wants to go. That led to the idea of creating an ‘experience truck’.
Designer: Arne Quinze [ Via: Dezeen ]
Totally re-defining the idea of good, clean fun, the Bathtub Racer is the culmination of hundreds of man hours, and countless packets of soap, in the pursuit of innovative engineering excellence. From the same unhinged individuals at Evento who brought you the GO-Racer, the new 2007 Bathtub Racer takes motorized bathroom fixtures to another level!
Designer: Tim Brien [ Product Page ]
Car enthusiasts in Asia have been thrilled by the opening of the Shanghai Auto Museum. Not only is this groundbreaking permanent exhibition the first large museum in China that is exclusively dedicated to the automobile and its historical development, it has also been praised for its comprehensive coverage of car-related topics.
Source: Shanhai Auto Museum
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