What’s the easiest way you can think of to turn a car into a house? My suggestion is to get one SwissRoomBox for your car. Integrated with a mobile kitchen, a bedroom, a shower and other basic facilities for life, the all-in-one device is compatible with a standard wan or SUV, and it’s really simple to assemble and dissemble.
Cars here, cars there, cars are all in your bedrooms. The series focuses on “cars”, including car-shaped beds, tables, cabinets, storage boxes and so on. Each piece is delicately designed and produced, but the most eye-catching one is still the bed modeled on the Chevrolet Corvette Z06.
Who knows what the best way to help people realize the potential beauty and utility local natural resources in Filipino is? Nobody. But designer Clayton Tugonon thought that a car crafted from natural and recycled materials would possibly work and therefore he completed this unique car and showed it at Fame Exhibit in Manila. The car’s dashboard is fashioned from a blend of sea shells, and its spiraling exterior is crafted from the stalks of coconut flowers.
A car installed with a wood-burning stove inside?? That sounds really crazy, but that’s innovative as well, indeed. Designed to fight against the cold weather in Swiss, Pascal Prokop has built a stove in his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon and even got an operating permit from the Swiss technical inspection authority.
Well, the brand is obviously not the only or best way to attract others, because these “Blind Passangers” cars shades can successfully bring people’s attention to you with much fewer costs. Appearing in front of the black background, the figures include Smonetta Vespucci, Vermeer’s girl with the pearl earring and so on.
You drive a car in the front, with another same (but smaller) car following behind… Do you love that experience? You should, honestly. Priced at $3,695 (so much!!), each trailer made by ACT looks likes small replicas of real cars, while they won’t cost you any fuel at all, but simply draw more attention to you…and your cars and trailers.
One possible new tendency for car manufacturing announced at the beginning of 2012 is the smart fabric seat covers developed by researchers from Polytechnic School in Montreal, Canada. The new fabric has electrical properties that will change depending on where touched, so that it allows the drivers to control their radio volume via merely a simple swipe. It means the fabric might replace the nobs, buttons and dials commonly built in cars in the future, so as to offer us a more convenient way to control the car. As BMW is reportedly interested, we guess it wouldn’t be long for us to see the touch fabric roll out in future car models.
A car, also a moving office, the transformed Mercedes-Benz is deemed as one the most extravagant offices around the world. Apart from its elegantly-decorated interior, the car is equipped with Mac mini, Sony 3D TV, Apple iPads, refrigerator, coffee maker, high quality sound system, PS3, iPod touch and other appliances as well, making it the No. 1 luxury combination of high-tech products nowadays. So what should we do on the car, to rest or to work? After all, the car is too comfortable to work in…
New method is put forward here to keep your cars away from theft, and it’s the Car Seat Identification technology developed by Japanese researchers.
What do you usually do during the boring time caused by traffic jam, to play your iPad, have a chat with beautiful ladies or just sit there without thinking anything? Maybe you should get some better alternatives, such as the Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit. It includes a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a built-in GPS navigation, multimedia on-the-go, DVR capabilities, and a wireless parking camera, once installed to replace your normal rearview mirror, the device would then allow you to play games in car. Isn’t that great? It offers you great pleasure while never taking up you too much space or costing you too much money.
On the Tokyo Motor Show Toyota has unveiled its Fun-Vii concept, a futuristic vehicle that allows the drivers to change the exterior design “with the same ease as downloading an application”. But that’s not all, because the Fun-Vii also features magical exterior display technology that lets drivers to display information on any places inside the car. To make the Fun-Vii more functional and attractive, the car can even be customized, with many themes and an augmented reality function taking place of the traditional navigation system.
A light signal isn’t functional enough to help you communicate with other drivers? Well, possibly the LED Light Display can. It is composed of mesh grid with about 600 LEDs, which are controlled by an ATmega AT89C51 microcontroller and play the messages you’ve already stored in the system. That means, when driving on the road, you can inform those behind you to back off, go ahead or do other things you may want with words displayed by the LED light. See what? The communication between drivers would become easier and clearer now.
Apparently the Terrafugia Transition Flying Car is an advanced vehicle we’ll use in the future. It is literally a car with folding wings, thus it can both run on roads and flies in the air.
Everybody knows what common vending machines can offer, but they seldom recognize that these machines can also provide some surprising things except for drinks and snacks. Actually, with weird vending machines collected from the world, people would easily get Marijuana, panty, gold, or even alive lobsters too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
1200 bottles of nail polish, 900 fake fingernails and 25 days – all those have resulted in these nail art advertisements for Kia’ new automobile “Picanto”. Fantastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]
On the Goodwood Festival of Speed held in Sussex, UK many visitors were firstly amazed by Gerry Judah’s 28-meter-high Jaguar E-Type sculpture rather than real cars shown there. The steel sculpture is mainly about a Jaguar E-Type car balancing on its front bumper, and it is made of half a kilometer of steel tubes that have a diameter of 1.2 meters. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home provides a clever and practical way to expand the area of your living space. It uses a small car docked underneath a 100 square feet house to act as an extra room so that the total reconfigurable space inside the Habitat Micro Home would reach 132 square feet. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Let’s start a green journey—never using any kinds of fuel, but simply relying on wind power. Sounds incredible? Not necessarily, because Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer have already completed a 5,000km journey with their electric vehicle powered by wind. They built their car with both electricity-generating wind turbines and a kite, which produced enough electricity power for use during their 18-day trip. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Use our intelligence. We should do this because we can create innovative or even magical things with our talent, just as Sandy Sanderson makes these mini cars with old cans, metal wires and his imagination. So incredible! [Read the rest of this entry...]
This is a new kind of safety belt that incorporates an air bag and you’ll soon see it in Toyota’s Lexus LFA luxury sports cars. When inflates in a collision, the seat belt will offer you a more safer protection so that you can be kept away from high risks of hurt. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Striving for a new breakthrough in technological innovation, the Energy Return Wheel designed by Brian Russell is an airless tire that can roll flat, save energy and most importantly never get flat during the moving. In that case, the number of traffic jam or traffic accident resulted by a flat tire would be greatly reduced. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It is not merely a toy for fun, but also a teaching appliance that may tell you how a car runs on water. When assembled, the mini car will then separate hydrogen and oxygen and use the gas to power the vehicle. So with the car, kids can also find entertainment in teaching too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
No body would give himself or herself up to the autonomous cars without struggle, but at least the latest news from Google can make us think twice before we refuse to have a try. According to Google, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control. And the Google cars seldom come into accidents except one car that was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light. [Read the rest of this entry...]
What could possibly go wrong? A red cloud appeared outside the car’s exhaust pipe as the vehicle roared away. [Read the rest of this entry...]
What wonderful good fortune kids today are enjoying, they can even own a classic luxury car as the adults do! But certainly the luxury cars for kids are only half scales. Designed for children over the age of 6 and small adults, these delicate cars are powered by 50cc gas or a racing kart engine, and all of them have an electric start, disk brakes and reverse gear, etc. Well, I can imagine how cool it would be to see my niece and her mother driving in two look-alike cars around the city! [Read the rest of this entry...]
A group of high school students from Automotive Design Studio, a unique class provided by Kansas City based DeLaSalle Education Center for high school students, has created a lightweight electric car that weighs less than 1,200 pounds, which is half the weight of 98% of most electric vehicles. Its body was shaped using a thin wire framework covered with a transparent skin made from a heat-shrinkable material, and that weighs only 39 pounds! Also due to its light weight, the DeLaSalle car is quite well known for energy efficiency, and it can achieve the equivalent of nearly 300 miles per gallon.
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With rapid growth of auto industry, car decoration service is being improved day by day. Just as women wear artificial eyelashes to make themselves look better, the cute huge eyelashes here can make your cars more attractive, too. So cars, why not give me a wink?
Students from the Ohio State University have designed the world’s fastest vehicle. Shaped like a large bullet, the new car is powered by lithium battery but can reach a high speed of up to 291 miles per hour, which have beaten almost all the racing cars. Really incredible. [Read the rest of this entry...]
After about forty years of developing a perfect human-powered vehicle, engineer Charles Greenwood has finally come up with a hand-powered hybrid car that has a top speed of up to 60mph. It can seat up to four people: when there’re all four people on the travel, the car can run based on the human power; but when there’re fewer passengers, it can also use electric battery power for a better performance. So the car can be more eco-friendly when there’re more people driving it. Good news is that you’ll soon see this car on the road, as the HumanCar Imagine PS is expected to be on sale next year for £10,000 and the company has received 100 pre-orders. Till then, the Imagine PS will also has a touch-screen display with GPS and biometric data logging, computer, communications systems and other advanced equipment. So do you want one, too? [Read the rest of this entry...]
How should car manufactures promote their new products, when nowadays they have to face more and more competitions? Possibly you’ll soon have an answer after seeing what Los Angeles-based Nondesigns has done to help promote Lexus compact hybrid, CT 200h. The studio created an awesome pixilated Lexus, using 2500 anodized aluminum bars lacquered with blue green on one side and yellow mica on the opposite. All of them were cut into specific lengths and inserted into their locations in the illuminated platform, therefore creating a stylish car that features a glowing effect of colors on its surface. More importantly, the viewers would experience a gradual change in color from gold to organic-blue when they walk around the car. As a result, everyone that has seen the new Lexus will be deeply impressed and we bet most of them would also want to own one. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Unless you’ve left home without your glasses, you’ll no doubt find the Poo-powered VW Beetle running through the streets of Bristol and get impressed with the eye-catching slogan on its smart body which says that “(The car is) Powered by your waste”! Powered by methane gas that is generated during the sewage treatment process, the new VW Beetle is announced as a “breakthrough in the drive to encourage sustainable power”, when many other automakers are also developing new sources of energy to take the place of regular motor petrol. But will the “Bio-Bug” perform as well as petrol-powered cars? Of course it can. It is reported that the new Beetle’s maximum speed is 114 m/h, and it would travel 10,000 miles every year if 70 homes in Bristol provide waste to power it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Maverick Flying Car is not something that you can merely see in the sci-fi (science fiction) movies, as you will see them in the skies of the United States or England during the next 12 months. It features an integrated ground and aerial controls, making it a cool personal mobility that can be used in two modes. The Maverick Flying Car is also built with a unique wing deployment system, which provides lift when the propeller generates thrust.
But to drive such a car, you have to own both a civilian driver’s license and an S-LSA/E-LSA certification. So have you been ready for it? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Mercedes Arrow is a two-seater recreational vehicle designed by Felipe Palermo. It comes with two stunning features, one of which is the bobsleigh-shaped body and the lightweight materials which make the vehicle to run like an arrow from a bow on the road. And the other feature is the combination of TANDEM and MAGLEV technology, due to which the car’s body will tilt left and right to minimize the wheels tilt angle when Mercedes Arrow takes sharp corners. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Taking the zero-emission vehicles to a new level, more and more automakers are developing vehicles that are powered by pedals, and one of the latest designs is the Human Powered Vehicle by Todd Dawson. It’s a double-duty vehicle, functioning as both a community car and a tradesman’s vehicle, and you can easily shift the vehicle between those two forms by moving and folding the seats in the back. The transformable seats also enable the vehicle to be used in different variants, ranging from a four person vehicle to a single person vehicle. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Let’s view the FIFA World Cup from a different perspective -that is, regard it as parts of the advertising campaigns -then we may experience something new but still exciting. [Read the rest of this entry...]
We all know that the cars are expected to run faster and faster, taking us to our destinations in the shortest possible time. But who knows how fast a car actually can be? Recently, the Renault has offered an answer via its latest print campaign that comes with a simple but impressive editorial—”Get There Faster”. To make sure that these ads would manage to attract the consumers, the designers from Publicis have combined photography with some Photoshop retouching skills, having famous buildings represent as flowing sand inside each hour-glass. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Nearly a quarter of all the advertisements we come across are about cars, but have you ever met some advertisements which uses real cars? Luckily you’ll see them here on I New Idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]
It is BMW Z4. You’re totally right. But have you noticed something different the BMW car has compared with others? Oh my god, it’s indeed made out of stone but still features transparent glass windows! So we bet it must be the world’s heaviest BMW. [Read the rest of this entry...]
There’re various ways to show your love for cars, for example, you can frequently have them cleaned and waxed, or adorn the cars with interesting stickers. But have you ever seen somebody build a house that strikingly resembles his car? That’s just what architect Markus Voglreiter has done recently. Apart from the unique appearance, it is also a green building, using “a ‘3 liter’ energy-efficient heating and insulation technique that optimizes all current building technologies, drastically reducing energy consumption.” [Read the rest of this entry...]
Low-emission, and self-repairing, these two features are enough to make Audi A9 Hybrid Concept one of the cars most expected in the future. Designed by Spanish car designer Daniel Garcia, the Audi A9 will do a much better work than Audi’s current flagship model A8. [Read the rest of this entry...]
