Showing posts with label Concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concept. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Daily Desired: This Electric Motorcycle Concept Looks Vicious [Desired]

Here's what we know about the Husqvarna E-go concept motorcycle: It's electric, it looks awesome, and at 175 pounds, it weighs less than the average American male—it's prettier, too. Now let's start dreaming.

The best part about concept vehicles—well concept anything, I guess—is imagining the possibilities. Especially in the case of bikes like the E-go concept when we know nothing except that the bike won't be spewing carbon into the air behind it. (Seriously, we know nothing.) There's no clutch, the brakes look like those on a bicycle, and in fact the design looks simple enough that I could just jump on and go. That single-sided front shock is crazy-looking. The bike looks like it's built for off-road trails, but they'll need to put some knobby tires on there because those slicks aren't gonna cut it. If it's supposed to be a streamlined road bike, as Husqvarna seems to suggest, well, I hope they put a headlight on it because there's no way this thing is street legal.

Let's be fair, a lot about the E-go will change—if it ever becomes a reality at all—but I wish I could ride this baby just the way she looks right now. [Husqvarna]

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

So an iPhone 9 Concept, Maybe? [Video]

So an iPhone 9 Concept, Maybe? Just to be clear: this does not purport to be anything like the iPhone 5. In fact, it almost certainly isn't. But I can still hope in my secret heart that we'll be seeing an iPhone like this someday, right?

The only feature showcased in this CGI, just-for-kicks mockup by Aatma Studio here that may actually show up in the next iPhone is the full-width display, although that razor-thinness is tantalizing, too. But wait, no, it's not about that. Comparing this to any real idea of the iPhone 5 is like comparing your dream of Abraham Lincoln to an actual photograph of Abraham Lincoln and being reminded that Real Lincoln's beard is shorter and his hat is crookeder and he doesn't shoot justice lasers from his eyeballs.

So let's enjoy this concept, not compare it against an upcoming product that, thought it may not exist, at least has taken some realistic shape in our minds. Let's think of this adorable dollop, with its festive but impractical keyboard and holographs, like we do the horizon: distant, familiar, hopeful, out of reach. [The Next Web]

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The Touchscreen Computer for Old People Unclear on the Concept [Computers]

The Touchscreen Computer for Old People Unclear on the ConceptI hope I never get so old as to require my progeny to buy me an idiot-proofed version of the latest technological innovation—that'd be insulting. But I might just get one of these Telikins for my Mom.

Billed as a "senior-friendly" computer system, the Telikin features an 18-inch capacitive touchscreen, Dual-core 1.8GHz processor, 320GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n wireless, a 1.3MP webcam for video conferencing with the grandkids, and a suite of basic connectivity software including a text editor, email client, and weather tracking, and news feeds.

Don't get me wrong—I'm well-versed in elderly folks' aversion to new technology. Hell, convincing my grandfather that fuel injection wasn't the work of the devil required a six-month discussion with diagrams. But this—it's like the physical embodiment of AOL's old web portal. For one, the Telikin runs a proprietary software suite that prevents any third party software from being installed—good for preventing Trojans, bad for expanding the system's utility beyond the dozen pre-installed functions that it comes with (of which PowerPoint was somehow deemed necessary).

The 18-inch screen version costs $700 and is ready-to-go out of the box. The upgraded "Elite" version includes a 20-inch screen, 500GB hard drive, HDMI port, and runs $1200. [Telikin]

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