Viewed from the wrong angle, this Oryx bike could look like something from the perv-o-licious Sex Museum in Amsterdam. Designed by a guy called Harald Cramer, it's a custom-made time-trial cycle with all sorts of weird and wonderful innovations...
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Artist Eileen Borgeson, Holographer Jeff Allen and Conceptual Designer Eyoub Khan merge to offer visitors to their spaceports and art themed complexes experiences in post-terrestrial life styles in ultra modern environments. www.Holographics.com
Jeddah International Airport by OMA
Below is a statement from OMA:
–NEW JEDDAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
For 33 days per year the new Jeddah Airport will host the influx of two million Muslims for the holy Hajj period in Mecca. No other airport in the world can claim such overwhelming specificity of its use. These programmatic requirements form the base for a new approach to both the organization of the airport and its architecture.Airports come in two sizes: too big and too small. Fundamentally compromised by the necessity to accommodate unpredictable future expansions, airports are ultimately forced to ‘gamble’ on their right size. In terms of its design the airport is condemned to a permanent open end.
Airports are primarily places one leaves from. With the business trip and the vacation as the airport’s main, perhaps even only, use, the excitement of going away generally outweighs that of coming back.
The initial proposal resulted in six different schemes with an emblematic quality. The final design follows the organizing principal of ‘the ring’. Both the main terminal and Royal pavilion with their crescent-like shape enclose an internal oasis that can accommodate different forms of use. The layout of the airport is organized in such a way that Airport and Hajj become a single integrated whole without forcing the airport to double in size.
Status: Commission 2005
Client: Wthheld
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Site: Desert btween Jeddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Program: New International Airport with Hadj facilities and royal family terminal
Partner: Rem Koolhaas
Associate: Fernando Donis
Team: Gustavo Guimarães, Laurent Troost, Miho Mazereeuw, Katrin Betschinger, Joshua Beck, Haiko Cornelissen, Léonie Wenz, Filipe Balestra, João Amaro, Inge Goudsmit, Joao Ruivo, Ben Milbourne, Tiago Branco-Sampaio
Project: International Airport for Jeddah
Status: Commission 2005
Client: Wthheld
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Site: Desert btween Jeddah and Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Program: New International Airport with Hadj facilities and royal family terminal
Partner: Rem Koolhaas
Associate: Fernando Donis
Team: Gustavo Guimarães, Laurent Troost, Miho Mazereeuw, Katrin Betschinger, Joshua Beck, Haiko Cornelissen, Léonie Wenz, Filipe Balestra, João Amaro, Inge Goudsmit, Joao Ruivo, Ben Milbourne, Tiago Branco-Sampaio
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Rumor Smashed: White Helio Prototype is Really Fujitsu's - Gizmodo
We just got an email from Mark Friesen, Fujitsu's Chief Designer in Japan, saying that yesterday's dubious Helio prototype is really their now-year-old design: "I'm holding both prototypes right now" he told us, "they were created to explore possibilities for smartphones." Indeed, we featured the other prototype last year. I still want one. Actually, both.
Denon isn't typically known for throwing out any futuristic pieces of AV luxury, rather, it tends to side with the more traditional, classy look. Of course, there's always a first time for everything, and while we're highly doubtful that this supposed Denon rendering will actually come to fruition, it certainly is a sight to behold. The two-piece kit consists of a rumored DVD-HD8910 Blu-ray player up top, with a 2TB AVR-HD8910 media center / receiver below. The 7.1-channel box also claims to handle iTunes music files and offer a direct connection to the iTMS, and while it's understandably simple to brush this all off as a fanboy's fantasy, Denon's no stranger to stuffing unusual extras in uncommon places.
[Via AVSForum]
Design Concept: Ring, The Vibrating Alarm
Here's a design concept that we're wondering why no one has thought of yet: it's a vibrating alarm that you wear on your finger, bypassing all that morning racket for a gentle jostling. Each of the two rings can have its own separate wake-up time, designed for comfort with an elastic band so you'll hardly know you're wearing it.
This design is especially appropriate for two bedmates who must awaken at different times, or for the hearing impaired. However, some users may sleep so deeply they don't even feel that tingling on the finger. Perhaps it could also be designed with aTaser-like electric shock. On second thought, that may not be very popular feature. [Yanko Design]
Captain Planet's Hotel: Eco-Friendly Hotel Being Built Within an Abandoned Quarry
Come on US, where are our geo-thermal quarry hotels? All we have are the dancing fountains outside the Bellagio in Las Vegas. [EcoGeek]
Ford Mustang Giugiaro concept: This one-of-a-kind Mustang by Giugiaro concept underscores Mustang's global appeal and celebrates the icon's heritage of performance. Powered by Ford Racing technologies, this fully drivable special Italian style design reflects the lasting allure of America's favorite muscle car. (11/28/2006)
Nike has just launched the Triax Vapor 300 digital watch that frankly, looks like a concept design. The extremely thin LCD display is a joy to look at, mounted onto an aluminum case that wraps around your wrist in the most natural manner.
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Credit cards are a modern way of life these days, but unfortunately for many, it is all too easy to fall into a spiral of debt with little or no hope of getting out. Designer Jacob Palmborg hopes that his design will change that, featuring a credit card that comes with a screen interface that displays important information such as your curreny available balance, recent purchases, and receipts. A fingerprint recognition sensor ensures only you have access to such sensitive data. The best way to cap your credit card spending would be lowering the limit to the bare minimum - that way you won't be shackled by never ending debts.
Scroll cellphone goes back in time
The Scroll cellphone concept from Yun Liang is pretty interesting, taking inspiration from traditional Chinese paintings that must be unfurled before viewing. Whenever you need to access data within the phone, you will need to roll out the scroll, but numeric key functions can be performed otherwise. The advent of flexible displays are definitely a good sign, since it signifies the fact that devices such as the Scroll cellphone can be a reality sometime in the near future, although the idea might not sound too practical. I mean, nothing beats taking a solid phone in my hand and pressing the "Answer" button, right? I see no point reinventing the wheel here.
Solar motorbike uses snail shell shape for surface area
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Powering a car with solar panels is a relatively easy task, but on a motorbike it's a lot harder to find flat surfaces to catch the sun. That means that a solar powered motorbike has got to look rather odd in order to provide enough surface area for the panels: hence the snail shell-like design of SunRed's prototype solar powered bike. When (or if) SunRed completes a real world prototype, the bike's surface area will be 25 square feet, allowing the bike to store enough of the sun's energy to ride for 13 miles at speeds of up to 30 MPH. The motor is integrated into the wheel too, so there's no transmission. Once these "green" bike thinkers sort out the problem of running a bike without oil, we hope they'll move onto making them a little less fugly. It seems like a precedent is being set here.
[Via Autoblog Green]
Light Dress: LED Fashion Makes You Look Groovy, in a NYC Skyline Kind of Way
Looks like designer Hussein Chalayan and Swarovski have came at last with LED clothing that doesn't make you look like an alien (not too much, anyway) or an utterly fashion-blind dork. The dress has two layers, with a translucent fabric covering the LEDs. If you live outside Japan, however, you will have to keep doing your LED garments yourself for now.
LED dresses for a glowing fashion from Japan [Gizmodiva]
Lexus built five of these for the Minority Report movie production company. Our friend's son purchased this one on EBay from the production company.
Behold, The Future: Euroscraper...Scrapes Europe, Not Sky?
Granted, it's horrible for preserving ground real estate. But it looks neat.
Compenion: The laptop from 2015
The Compenion is a sleek concept laptop designed by Felix Schmidberger. It certainly looks like the kind of portable PC we might be carrying around in 2015, made more futuristic by its OLED touchscreen, which serves as both monitor and keyboard. You can tap away by hand or use the "senstylus" pen to control it, and through a series of docking stations the Compenion will adapt to the environment where you're using it. For example, the home dock might have a projector for viewing video, while the office might include ergonomic stuff like an external keyboard.
As cool as smartphones are, laptops certainly aren't going away, so the Compenion makes a decent case for next-gen mobile computing. Between its sleekness, the OLED touchscreen and innovative modular concept, it's got a lot to going for it. Not sure about that name, though, Felix.
See more renderings of the Compenion after the jump.
Felix Schmidberger at Coroflot, via Yanko Design
Mecanoo architects won the competition for the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center, Taiwan.
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