You Can Build This Open Source Car in an Hour. The TABBY is the first vehicle from OSV OSV Vehicles OSV claims you can build their first car in under an hour... … assuming you don't include an engine The OSV founder and designer take the TABBY for a spin The Integrated Hybrid Engine for the TABBY is a work in progress All parts are designed and built in-house The OSV crew uses 3D printing to mock up engine parts As an open-source car, you can download the specs from OSV You can even build parts yourself to customize your TABBY It takes about an hour to make Nigella Lawson’s lamb shank stew.
Now calling the OSVehicle Tabby a “car” might be a bit of a stretch, and that hour-long build time doesn’t include installing superfluous things like doors and body panels and a windshield. However, if you go with the upgraded Urban Tabby, you get just enough bodywork to make it street legal — at least in the U.K. OSV is taking pre-orders for the Tabby starter kit, with both the two-seater or four-seater configurations going for €500. Milan Creates the World’s First Vertical Forest. In an age where harmonious innovation is becoming more celebrated, sustainable designs to preserve the Earth and contribute to wellbeing are being implemented at a rapid rate.
One such innovation to recently be accepted for development is a vertical forest designed by Stefan Boeri Architects. The first ever vertical forest will soon be the greenest building in Milan. Because the average household in a city produces approximately 25-30 tons of CO2 per year, implementing greener architecture in highly populated areas cannot come soon enough. This stunning development is part of a vision presented by BioMilano which promises to incorporate 60 abandoned farms into a greenbelt surrounding the city. Innovega Delivers the Wearable Displays that Science Fiction Promised.
There's a simple reason why we don't have immersive augmented reality displays in the form of sunglasses yet: it's impossible.
Our eyes are not designed to focus on things that are as close to them as sunglasses are, and if you put a display at that distance, it'll be blurry. Typically, the way to deal with this is to insert a bunch of clunky optics in between your eye and a display to allow your eye to deal with something that close, which is what a system like Google Glass does. But as you increase the display size and field of view (a requirement of truly immersive augmented reality), the amount of optics required to make it work increases geometrically, and eventually you'll end up with something very immersive but very gigantic like the Oculus Rift. Realistically, the widest field of view you'll be able to get in a compact wearable display is probably 25 or 30 degrees; Google Glass is just 13 degrees, and the much more chunky Epson Moverio only manages 23 degrees.
Super-stealth FLYING CAR prototype seen outside GOOGLE HQ. Pics Forget self-driving cars.
How about flying ones? Reports have emerged of what appears to be a mysterious airborne vehicle being developed by a stealth company operating near Google's Mountain View headquarters. It looks real, but does it work? Zee.Aero's mysterious prototype aircraft (Credit: Greg Espiritu/SF Chronicle) On Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on patent filings by a hush-hush outfit called Zee.Aero that describe a "personal aircraft" with unique characteristics. The proposed vehicle's design is so unusual that it looks like something out of science fiction. This futuristic-looking mass transit system is really happening. Underground Bicycle Parking Systems in Japan. So Make It. B go beyond by B. B is a revolutionary new remote controlled hybrid car-helicopter with a patent pending design.
It is capable of driving across difficult terrain using its large rear drive wheels and when the obstacles become too big, simply take-off and fly over them. B is a toy that provides an extraordinary experience. B is virtually unstoppable, capable of transitioning between ground and air allowing the development of tricks otherwise impossible to achieve. Due to its large wheel diameter of 210 mm it achieves outstanding performance in difficult terrain.
On flat surfaces B reaches high speeds. Vertical take-off and landing.Able to transition on the move between driving, flying and back again.Up to 15 minutes of action on a single charge.HD (1280 x 720 px) camera on-board with recording capability. The combination of the design and material selection creates a solid construction that is capable of surviving the worst of landings. The wheels naturally guard the blades around them. E-volo. Mission Volocopter VC007. FuturICT FET Flagship. Solid State Aircraft.