Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Volkswagen Tango :-)


As you can read in this Bright article, Volkswagen presented this new electric scooter 10 years after we presented then out Tango. Looks good though; like the shape that makes sense after you have seen the folding sequence in the video.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

cool packaging NOT


got this ethernet connector shipped from the states. expected a matchbox; got this shoebox instead. ridiculous..... (can you see the little black spot?; that;s the connector :-)

Maybach



Did anyone ever realize the Maybach logo looks like an upside down Wiener Werkstaette logo? :-)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Flashback

Anyone who has studied in Delft knows the tall red building of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. It's a big red thin slab that seems to create a local weather system of itself. Failure to brace for impact can get you knocked to the ground by what almost seems like a very local hurricane..
Anyone who's been the unfortunate victim of this has no doubt thought how all that energy could be put to good use, maybe by bolting some wind turbines to the building.





Finally someone has put this idea to practice, albeit not in Delft.
The Strata building (by Brookfield Europe) has been specifically designed to put all this energy to good use. The big integrated turbines will create an expected 50MWh of energy:



link: http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/15/the-strata-worlds-first-skyscraper-with-built-in-wind-turbines/

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Honda 3R-C


The Geneva Autoshow started yesterday and besides the storm of electric concepts (and weird cars that Geneva is also famous for) there was also this Honda 3R-C. Not sure if this is the solution (actually sure it's not), but interesting to see that you see more and more exlorations what can be between a scooter and a car. check the story here.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Husqvarna Panthera Leo™



Lawnmower concept from Husqvarna.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Year of the tablet?

So, now that the general consensus seems to be that the iPad may not be the killer gadget we all hoped it to be (I like to make broad generalizations), it's maybe good not to forget that there's still a big giant out there working on their own portable device.

Take another look at the MS Courier booklet (I know, it's news from 2009, so by internet standards it's already gathering dust).
Sure, we haven't seen it in real life, but now that we've seen the first glimpses of Windows Mobile 7, I have to admit that MS seems to be sitting on some very very cool new tech. I guess that silly MS Surface technology is trickling down into smaller items:

MS Courier: Interface demonstration
apparently not just some flashy demo, but in advanced stages of prototyping.

And as an extra: Windows Mobile 7

Officepod


Vop sent this officepod. picture taken from their site.

Garia Golf cart


A guy I met last weekend fwd me this Golf cart which looks relatively nice compared to standard ones. I made this custom design in there website; let's do a competition! you can actually pick every color you want!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tazzari



Now this is nice little e-Car that doesn't tries to be a regular car, but builts a new category for small urban vehicles. don't like all the design elements like the front and rear light, but proportion and package are very cool. picture from the Tazzari website, now distributed in NL by our clients Mister Green.

Friday, January 8, 2010

"Engineers say the darndest things"



sometimes all you need is a simple quote:

In the functional design, we see the new components as black boxes. To make the appearance a bit more cheerful, we made the black boxes green.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

citroën karin


how cool is that! check out this (lame) article that doesn't give the coolio design the credit it deserves. check ou the wacky steering wheel! the funny thing is I still remember it came out. darn, I'm getting old...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

WINE by numbers


check out this new dutch wine concept

daihatsu basket


Daihatsu basket, very cool new concept in tokyo.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

3x



facelift


is this the worst facelift ever? in general cars and other products (and people!) don't get better after facelifting, but this exercise ruining the original punto design beats it all.... who has more 'nice' examples?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

NiceRide




They (being Mike and Maaike)call it autonomobile. And I'd like to see it on the roads out there...

Monday, August 3, 2009

plakkies


and by the way; these coolio flipflops are a delft thingy too. read the story; made in south africa.

another


here's another e-Motorbike from Maarten Timmer, a TU Delft student. check the TU site for more background.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Tilestove


this nice tilestove, designed by dick van hoff, was presented last salone in milano. reminded me of volkers family house in Radstadt! cooperation of Tichelaar en Weltevree.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

MINIairstream


very cool Mini airstream combi. also nice ideas in the trailer, like the facade that folds open to be a sofabed. check more pictures on autoblog.it

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

enicycle


dan sturgess from intragomobility twittered this funny "uno-seg", the enicycle from italy. not sure what is actually does better then a segway :-)

check out this funny movie.

marcel

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

e-yves


check out this wallpaper story on an electric motorcycle by fuse project. is it cool? kind off, but designing a motorcycle is still difficult. not sure if anyone interested in a bike would like this.

crazy




did you see this new idea from segway & GM? clearly they are more famous for engineering then comming up with sensible mobility solutions. do you remember the other 'clever' concept with GM?