Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - 2:18pm
Meet Pushya and Pullya. If Pushya is like that devil on your right shoulder, Pullya would be sitting pretty on the left with a little halo hovering over its head. It's a concept thought up by Paul Grader for a...
industrial design stories
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 11:10am
Industrial vehicles such as trucks and pickups are great for hauling stuff around, but sometimes you don't have a lot of space to do it. The CarGo, a design by Adam Schacter, is a tiny pod car that has a...
Friday, May 29, 2009 - 2:41pm
France. The Year is 2037. 70% of the country's population lives in dense urban zones. Cars don't have rear axles. Welcome to the future. Or, at least, the future as envisioned by Adil Benwadih and his Nervastella concept car. (No...
Monday, May 18, 2009 - 1:17pm
This coffee maker by Kamil Kurka doesn't look like it belongs to our century. Beyond its good looks — after all, I think a design like that can speak for itself — the unit also features controls that'll let you...
- care
- caregiving
- concept
- design
- elderly
- galleries
- gallery
- industrial design
- medical
- medicine
- pills
- robots
- teleconferencing
- telepresence
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 1:25pm
Designer Watinee Leewongjaroen's "Memo" robot is designed to be the perfect companion and caregiver. It monitors its charge all day long, doing simple things like helping to find a pair of sunglasses, and performing more complicated acts such as calling...
- art
- automated
- city
- concept
- design
- driverless
- Future Tech
- industrial design
- prototype
- robotics
- self-driving
- taxi
- vehicle
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 11:45am
The idea of a car that drives itself has been kicking around for a while — especially as an automated urban people-mover — and that's exactly what designer Kubik Petr's robo-taxi is designed for. Looking a little bit like a...
- air travel
- Airbus
- Aircraft
- airline
- carbon-fiber
- competition
- design
- electric motor
- electricity
- flying V
- industrial design
- plants
- Solar Power
- Stanford
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 12:06pm
Back in October of '08, Airbus launched the "Fly Your Ideas" competition, where teams would compete with one another to come up with the best idea to reshape the future of air travel. An amazing 2,350 students from 82 countries...
- art
- car
- concept
- dune buggy
- galleries
- gallery
- industrial design
- Miguel-Angel Iranzo Sanchez
- solar powered
- solar vehicles
- vehicle
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 10:19am
Not too long ago, Spanish designer Miguel-Angel Iranzo Sanchez showed off the Seat Brisa, which was essentially a solar-powered love seat. Now he's designed the Brisa's successor, the Duna, which comes off looking a bit more like a car with...
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 1:14pm
Radio Valerie, designed by Valentin Vodev, is a sultry little concept that allows you to fully control the radio without having to use buttons or switches. The antenna also acts as your control stick to seek for stations, and there's...
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 12:59pm
It's a bird! It's a, uh, bee! It is, in fact, a helicopter named for a bumble bee — which is what "hummel" means in Rosenheim-born industrial designer Daniel Kocyba's native German. The small wheels and support of the 'copter...
