winglet

check out the new toyota winglet on this youtube movie. looks like the <25km/h mobility market is now finally attractive to the big car guys. the good news ia our solution is more simple and almost ready to hit the market!

मिनी rickshaw

now this is an interesting way making a comfortable rickshaw! mini made this for the olympics. however you can't say it's nicely integrated... read the full text on this article in autowereld.

ted.com

a very nice web site with a lot of 10 minutes videos on very different subjects:

www.ted.com

my favorites here, but there are many more:

Theo jensen: The art of creating creatures:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html

Sculpture that's truly moving ( Arthur Ganson )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/arthur_ganson_makes_moving_sculpture.html

Underwater astonishments ( David Gallo )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html

Using biology to make better animation ( Torsten Reil )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.html

Brain magic ( Keith Barry )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/keith_barry_does_brain_magic.html

Why design? ( Philippe Starck )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/philippe_starck_thinks_deep_on_design.html

Theremin, the untouchable music ( Pamelia Kurstin )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pamelia_kurstin_plays_the_theremin.html

Are children's carseats necessary? ( Steven Levitt )
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_levitt_on_child_carseats.html

X-bike

cool folding bike umbrella style called X-bike. guess why...read this article on bright

Beautiful Brochures

Smashing Magazine posted a nice overview of 50 cool promotional booklets and brochures. Enjoy some bold graphic design:





link: Smashing Magazine

HPE

here's a look at my restoration project on it's way. it;s a 1977 lancia beta HPE. check also this cool ad from the time! always loved this bodywork concept (combi coupe). would buy it also now, when available. and I don't mean that Delta that they call HPE now...

Salone Satellite 2008

yatzer has a nice overview of the best stuff found on the Satellite 2008 show in Milan this year..



link: clickety click!

SINTESI

check out the new Pininfarina concept car to be introduced in geneva next week. under direction of collegue TU-delft graduate lowie vermeersch. check this minifarina site for more images (image also from site).

love the door detailing! look back at the nido.

Chicago cold!

A couple of pics here from my trip to Chicago, it's chilly here and there's no lack of snow! These were taken saturday when it was almost summer, today I had to wade through the snow to get around... note to self, sneakers will not cut it on the skiing trip!







- Renze

GROW

check this treehugger item on designs that grow with you. yes, exactly like our growbike. the grow-aspect on the babybett is fairly limited I would say..

Fridgetime

This cool photo series by Peter Menzel shows various families around the world together with their weekly groceries. A cool insight into the domination of fast food into the lives of us in the western world..



link: http://2photo.ru/2007/09/10/superproekt_fotografa_peter_menzel_chto_edjat_na_zemle.html

Peter Menzel website: http://www.menzelphoto.com/gallery/subCategory.php?subCategory=Books/Hungry%20Planet

Joker

did you see that Fisker hybrid saloon on the Detroit auto show? on Autoblog Rick Dos made this brilliant parallel with the Joker! love the solar cell roof, also the car all in all is a lot of excuse marketing...

AIR

My brother Hans mentioned the interesting air car of Guy negre already 5 years ago. It looks like now they will make a big step with Tata stepping in as you can read on NU.nl
Let's hope they will also do something about the design....

Enertia

another electric motorbike, this time from Oregon USA. same battery technology as the Oxygen scooter Springtime designed. check out the website for more details.

Disappearing Doors

Interesting concept by California based company Jatech LLC. This'll save a lot of paint damage on doors in cramped parking lots....
Check the movie on: http://www.disappearing-car-door.com

Disposable design

Pingmag has another nice posting where they take a look at the pet bottles which can be found in the many vending machines on Japanese street corners.
I especially like these ones resembling bamboo, the material traditionally used to drink these kinds of teas:



Link: Pingmag - Japanese packaging design #5: Nifty PET bottles!

Check out this cool boat designed by the G-star team including ex-springtimer Pieter Kool. The boat will be used as exclusive watertaxi in Amsterdam. nice branding tool after previous Raw defender. check the dezeen blog for more pictures.

UnitedVisualArtists

UVA are a based collective that create some really amazing architectural installations, live performances and responsive installations. They were commissioned to create a music video for the latest Battles single, "Tonto".

Click the Quicktime icon on this page to view the video: UVA



Check the UVA site for more cool projects: http://www.uva.co.uk

Daft Punk?

The British Ministry of Defense showed a prototype of a helmet for future F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) pilots.
The future is now, that's the only thing I can think of when I see this. The sci-fi age has truly arrived!



from: BBC News, Day in pictures

Sustainable dance club

Creating energy by people dancing in a club. See the link.

T R A A N L A T E N

yesterday I was for the first time at Rotterdam Centraal station since they closed down the old main buidling. coming back from the city I saw the text T R A A N L A T E N in the same characters as the original C E N T R A A L S T A T I O N . very cool!

not just for shipping

The humble shipping container, we all know it as the workhorse of the world economy. There is however a more interesting side to this object. Students across the country might already know it as an interesting place to live. Easy to stack, they make for some cool flexible cheap housing.
NOTCOT has an overview of some more creative uses for these containers, the Illy mobile coffee bar is one of the latest surprises:



link: NOTCOT

Tokyo motor show

The tokyo motor show always features some of the most outrageous and futuristic concept cars. This year's show
is no different, featuring the mazda taiki, the yamaha tesseract and the honda puyo.

Manhole cover design

Decorative coins? Nope, Japanese manhole covers from the Okachin Manhole Cover Gallery, which is over a thousand images deep. If you're going to make your living climbing down into sewers, you may as well have something pretty to look at on the way in.

Space Money

Money and spacetravel is apparantly a tricky combination. Imagine a heavy metallic coin floating around, bumping into delicate instruments. Well, a team of scientists has now come up with a way to provide space pick-pockets with a new prize. A new currency and coins specifically designed to solve these problems, called the quid (Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination).



I can imagine these being HIGHLY sought after by coin collectors that now have to do with mere Earth money.

link: BBC News