Category: Design
Masdar Headquarters.
Building designed to produce more energy than it consumes. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 6th, 2008.
Vulture program.
DARPA is designing an unmanned aircraft that can fly for 5 years straight.
Post date: Tuesday, March 4th, 2008.
New Worlds Observer.
Space shield that will shade orbiting telescopes from star light allowing astronomers to look for Earth-like planets.
Post date: Monday, July 10th, 2006.
Baker.
Supercomputer being designed to have up to 400 terabytes of working memory and 11 petabytes of storage.
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
2007 Serial Killer Calendar.
French artist has designed a calendar that portrays the world’s most notorious serial killers.
Post date: Saturday, June 10th, 2006.
BIOLOCH.
Project that designs robots bio-inspired by the locomotion of lower animal forms has developed a paddle worm robot that can navigate through the gut of a pig.
Post date: Tuesday, June 6th, 2006.
Air-hybrid engine.
Engine hybrid that claims to double fuel efficiency and produce 80% less emissions.
Post date: Friday, May 12th, 2006.
Forearm Forklift.
Lifting strap system ergonomically designed for moving furniture and appliances.
Post date: Friday, May 12th, 2006.
Intelligent safety systems.
System that will change an automobile’s shape during a crash to better absorb the impact. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 11th, 2006.
Topological contour configurations.
Alphabets have been shaped by the contours that man sees in nature.
Post date: Wednesday, April 26th, 2006.
BMW CLEVER.
Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport. (via)
Post date: Monday, April 24th, 2006.
Invention machine.
Man has created a machine that uses genetic programming to evolve designs that are becoming patentable inventions. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 20th, 2006.
Lobster All-Sky X-ray Monitor.
Telescope designed to view 180° at once can take a picture of the entire sky in 90 minutes.
Post date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
GMC PAD.
Concept truck designed to serve as both a vehicle and residence. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
Diverging diamond interchange.
Unorthodox road design will temporarily put Kansas City drivers on the left side of the road.
Post date: Friday, March 31st, 2006.
Autopia Ampere.
German architect wants to use the process of mineral accretion to build a self-assembling city from the sea. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 30th, 2006.
DNA art.
Scientists discover technique of folding strands of DNA to produce any shape. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 16th, 2006.
DNA bridge.
Singapore to build a bridge in the double-helix shape of DNA.
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Nissan Terranaut.
Concept SUV designed as a mobile working environment complete with science laboratory and integrated computer keyboard.
Post date: Friday, February 17th, 2006.
WashDryIron.
Machine that washes, dries, and irons clothes. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006.
Schlafgras.
Sleeping grass: ‘personalized nap landscape‘. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2006.
Dual theorems.
New mathematical method, a combination of kinematics and statics, allows structures to be designed that can maintain their strength when damaged or compromised. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006.
Herculean effort.
Olympic torch is too heavy for atheletes to carry. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 2nd, 2006.
Hippo water roller.
Why carry water in a jug over your head when you can roll it on the ground?
Post date: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005.
All talk.
The poorly-designed Norwegian Sound and Braille Library ‘is less suited for the visually impaired’ than most other buildings.
Post date: Thursday, October 6th, 2005.
Murata Boy.
Japanese company has created a robot that can ride a bike.
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Should exist.
A blog of stuff that people think should be made. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
TurboTap.
Using the principles of ‘fluid mechanics‘, a frustrated college engineer creates a beer tap design which improves keg yield by 30% and pours four times faster than a conventional tap. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.
Eco-friendly.
Student in England designs shower that ‘re-circulates and cleans used water‘.
Post date: Thursday, September 8th, 2005.
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