Wireframe Lamborghini Koenig Countach Can Be Yours For £40,000
By Andrew Liszewski
It was originally created back in 2008, but Benedict Radcliffe is now hoping to sell his wireframe Lamborghini Koenig Countach sculpture for a mere £40,000, or about US $65,000. The 6ft wide, 14ft long Lambo is made from 160ft of 10mm steel rod which was painstakingly bent and welded to produce a rather striking piece that looks like it’s waiting for a pass through Pixar’s RenderMan to be complete. It’s unfortunately completely undriveable given it lacks a wireframe engine, and is painted a rather, um, striking tint of fluorescent orange, but finding a way to make the Countach look kind of cool again is an impressive feat.
[ Benedict Radcliffe's Lambo! 2 ] VIA [ Times Online & Autoblog ]
Slauerhoffbrug ‘Flying’ Drawbridge
By Andrew Liszewski
Not only does this cantilevered drawbridge known as the Slauerhoffbrug in Leeuwarden, Netherlands look pretty amazing when it’s hoisting a section of the bridge into the air to let boats through, but I have to assume/desperately hope it doubles as a gigantic catapult when traffic is slow. Unfortunately something tells me that pesky ‘public safety’ issue would put a kibosh on those plans though.
[ frozenly.com - Flying Bridge ] VIA [ Neatorama ]
CO2 Dress Senses Pollution, Owns the Runway
The pretty frock in he picture is more than the latest piece of haute couture. Thanks to the efforts of Forster Rohner, Alexandra Institute, diffus.dk, and The Danish Design School this dress is not only fashion-forward it’s also eco-friendy.
The LEDs embroidered into the dress actually show the levels of CO2 in the room. The dress monitors CO2 levels and transmits the information to the LEDs which flicker in response to the data. I wonder if the decision to make the dress a charcoal gray a purposeful one made by the collaborators to symbolize our declining air quality. At any rate, this is another example of how technology and fashion can come together to create something that’s beautiful and functional both on and off the catwalk.
Via Fashioning Tech
LATTEA Design Contest – Coffee Cup Gets Personal
A lot can happen over a cup of coffee. Being a design addict I still treasure this disposable coffee cup I was served in once. It’s got this interesting Victorian painting depicted on it and it looks simply awesome. Would you believe me, if I told you that it was bought off a vendor at the airport? That’s the power of great design! If you have the flair for design, then you MUST take part in the LATTEA Design Contest. It’s where you get to design an exclusive LATTEA Glass and WIN 2000 €!
Details for the contest:
By taking part in the contest you can create designs of LATTEA glasses. Either you submit freely created Lattea glass designs or you use a configuration tool in order to design glasses.
But not only do the best designers win great prizes! The Most-Active-Member as well as the Best-Supporter is rewarded with a LATTEA fully-automated coffee machine!
More details Here.
The prizes for the best designs are:
- 1st prize: LATTEA + 2000 €
- 2nd prize: LATTEA + 1000 €
- 3rd prize: LATTEA + 500 €
To get the drift on the contest we urge you to browse here and feel the action.
For full info hit this link. And to know more about this European Royalty visit LATTEA
Last Date For Submission is 21/12/2009, so Hurry!
Posted: December 16th, 2009
at 9:50am by Radhika Seth
Topics: 2000, Announcements, Coffee, Competitions, Contest, Design, LATTEA, Win, cup, €
A Stoplight for the Progress Bar Generation [Image Cache]
Progress bars aren’t always accurate, but at least they’re there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn’t done. And soon, they will invade the meatspace.
We already crane our necks to see the perpendicular streets’ lights cycles through, so the Eko stoplight concept, intended to let drivers know if it’s ok to shut off your car to save gas at a light, won’t really change a whole lot. But it would set a precedent, a standard, and a model for everything else: I want progress bars on my toaster, my pizza deliveries, my teapots, my dryer. No, scratch that: I need them.
And if you think about it, our innate desire to see the bar creep forward (or around, as it were) runs deeper than our slow entanglement with computers. I mean, what is a line if not a progress bar made of people? What about a sliced loaf of bread? A growing child? And oh god, clocks. This is too much for a Monday. [Yanko via Ubergizmo]
Posted: November 30th, 2009
at 12:26pm by John Herrman
Topics: Concepts, Design, Eko stoplight, Image cache, Progress bar, Progress bars, Stop lights, Stoplights
