Morph is a concept economy seat designed by Seymourpowell, a London based company, that has been inspired by difference, new materials and flexibility. It has been designed to offer passengers choice over the amount of space they pay for and to provide a better fit for more people. Morph features fabric stretched over the seat frame. A… Continue reading Morph: Clever Aircraft Seating Concept
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Four Cable Drawing Machine
A cable driven drawing machine created by David Bynoe for the Telus Spark Science Center in Calgary, Alberta. The machine is controlled with LinuxCNC using a custom kinematics module and python script written by Kevin Loney. Each of the four stepper motors is connected to a pulley and string. By winding in or letting out string on each corner… Continue reading Four Cable Drawing Machine
Amazon Prime Air: Futuristic Drone Delivery System
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reveals the company’s latest delivery method called Amazon Prime Air, with plans to use “octocopter” mini-drones to fly small packages to consumers in just 30 minutes. “I know this looks like science fiction, it’s not,” Bezos said on 60 Minutes, can carry packages of up to five pounds for round trips as long… Continue reading Amazon Prime Air: Futuristic Drone Delivery System
Video: Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Concept
Mercedes-Benz AMG made a remote-controlled 1:1 scale model of its Vision Gran Turismo Concept, a virtual car that will be featured in Gran Turismo 6. Watch the video below.
Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Concept
Mercedes-Benz has revealed the AMG Vision Gran Turismo virtual concept for the latest installment in the Gran Turismo 6 and the 15th anniversary of that racing simulator franchise. The concept is the result of a challenger from Kazunori Yamauchi Gran Turismo series producer and President of Polyphony Digital Inc., who asked the world’s car companies to come up with… Continue reading Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo Concept
Man Has Art RFID Chip Implanted Into His Hand
New Yorker Anthony Antonellis had a Net RFID chip around the size of a grain of rice implanted inside his hand. The chip stores 1KB of data and is readable by compatible smartphones, tablets, card readers and the Arduino microcontroller. Antonellis has used it to display his artwork in the form of gif’s. The implanted RFID chip can be read… Continue reading Man Has Art RFID Chip Implanted Into His Hand
Armadillo-T: Foldable Electric Car
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea has developed an ultra-light, ultra-compact electric vehicle called Armadillo-T, that literally folds in half at the flip of a switch. Using a smartphone app, the 110-inches-long four-wheel-drive vehicle folds up and shrinks down to just 65-inches-long making it small enough to take up just a third of a standard-sized parking spot.… Continue reading Armadillo-T: Foldable Electric Car
Hyperloop: From LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes
Co-founding of Tesla Motors and PayPal, billionaire Elon Musk has unveiled a transportation concept that could shoot passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. Travelers enter an floating aluminium capsule that could travel through a large steel tube, reaching a speeds of up to 1,290 km/h (800 mp/h). These images below show sketches of the passenger transport capsule and how… Continue reading Hyperloop: From LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes