AUTONOMOUS CAR

By all accounts, the autonomous car is coming — and soon. By 2020, nations from the U.S. to Singapore will likely have self-driving cars on roadways. These road-aware vehicles will theoretically do away with nearly all traffic collisions and reduce traffic congestion. Quirky auto designer Rinspeed, however, has fixed its considerable talent on another aspect of the autonomous car: just what to do with the passengers.

Since driving will predominantly be done by the vehicle, passengers (even those in the driver's seat) won't really need to stare blankly out the windshield anymore. Instead, Rinspeed suggests an interior that functions more like a lounge than a driverless taxi. As the front seats of their XchangE concept car swivel around a full 180 degrees, the steering wheel drifts to the center of the dashboard, allowing you to recline towards the windshield. The back seat can also fold down, revealing a 52-inch gesture-controlled 4K-resolution display.

 Passengers will be able to settle in for a good movie or finish up some work they hadn't quite gotten to at the office, all while looking up through a pair of brilliant, LED-lined Plexiglas roof panels covered in a "Radiant" surface coating that reflects light in all the colors of the rainbow. If you're getting sleepy, the XchangE can even brew you up a nice cup of cappuccino.

 
 


 All in all, Rinspeed's concept, conceived as an evolution of a Tesla model S, features a record-breaking 20 different seating configurations — two of which even let you take the wheel from each of the front seats. The XchangE will be on show at the Geneva Motor Show next month.

Via Rinspeed

                                                        

FLOATING TURBINES

Floating Balloon turbines

Looking like a wayward jet engine, this floating turbine and its brethren could someday travel to every remote corner of the globe. There, they could deliver electricity and Internet connectivity to people and villages living off-the-grid. Unlike their jet-propelling doppelgangers, however, these turbines are going to need a bit of help getting from point A to B.
Think of these floating turbines as the wind farms of the future and you won't be that far off. Developed by Altaeros energies, the floating turbines are designed to take advantage of the powerful prevailing winds that exist 2,000 feet above our heads. Once they've been inflated and deployed, these floating power plants can generate twice the output of a ground-based turbine. The tethers that keep the turbine anchored in place also send that energy ground-ward.

 While in the air, the turbines can also serve as Wi-Fi, cell service hubs, and weather monitoring stations. Furthermore, the turbine's helium-inflated housing is durable enough for deployment in either the blazing sun or freezing snow. Basically, anywhere you install one of these suckers, you instantly get data coverage, electricity and local weather data, even if your previous system involved a sun dial and carrier pigeons. The things even have a cool name: the BAT. Heck, we've already got Wi-Fi and we'd like one of these floating above the DVICE offices.

Future Transportation

Future Transportation

Future homes will not only be smart in a green and energy conservation sense but they’ll also be empowered with robotics, food supply management, facial recognition security, resource and energy management plus so much more.
Cities of the future will efficiently move people are cargo around with leading edge public and private transportation. Food crops will be grown inside large cities and distributed locally. Solar panels and other technology will provide future distributed energy resources to power cities locally.
These pages may hold product and tech reviews of emerging technology but then they’ll be followed by future technology predictions based upon this technology. See for yourself. Then use your third eye and see beyond what your eyes and imagination now tell you is possible.

Future Bionics

Future Bionics

Future electronics will go way beyond the iPad
using  holograms and other virtual reality technology. What once was believed to be science fiction will simply be known as science.  Future robotic surgery will mean more precision, less complication and faster healing. Medical databases will interact at light speed to give the utmost in patient care for disease and injuries.


Future bionics will not only combine man (and woman) and machine, but also artificial intelligence with human intellect. Questions such as what is the mind, consciousness and the soul will be answered and integrated between neurons and electronics.
Future homes will not only be smart in a green and energy conservation sense but they’ll also be empowered with robotics, food supply management, facial recognition security, resource and energy management plus so much more.

Future Living Style

One can only envision the future technology that our kids and grand-kids will be able to use on a daily basis. Future technology will allow the generation of today to live longer due to advances in medicine, use more high tech computers and electronics than we can now imagine, and drive future cars with no emissions and zero carbon footprints.
Not only that but our grandchildren will take advantage of future energy, smart homes and cars, robots and bionics to serve them and make life easier. Future weapons will actually be smarter, more precise and reduce the need for machismo among countries and will encourage non-proliferation.

Future space technology will bring spacecraft to the far reaches of this solar system and beyond. Space tourists will actually get to fly to Mars as in the movie Total Recall. Future education technology will mean students will learn faster, retain information longer, process information and retain memory like we can now not even imagine.

Voido glossy black by Ron Arad

We love the new version ”glossy black” of the famous Rocking chair Voido. Originally conceived in blow moulding, Voido was presented at the 2005 Furniture Fair in a “mould testing” phase under which it suffered greatly. Underestimated by Magis and Arad alike, the latter of whom jokingly wrote on the prototype, “This is not rotation moulding! First attempt in big scale blow moulding. Almost there!” But not a thing could be done to alleviate the technical suffering, as trial after trial made evident. So the Voidoblow moulding combination was given up in exchange for rotational moulding that features new and decidedly superior aesthetics. Now Voido is ready for the market. A sculpture by Ron Arad.

Revolutions Per Hour Sofa by Fabio Novembre

Fabio Novembre presents RPH – Revolutions Per Hour, a large sofa that can exist as a unit or in several separate parts. Its distinctive character comes from the ends that resemble two deign archetypes: the Cubetto armchair and Le Corbusiers chaise-longue. The formal play is developed in the upholstery: one has a seat in black and white fabric with red sides – like a Valentino 1950′s cocktail party dress; the second is in grey crinkled, felt fabric with a rock-like effect.

The Twist Chair by Jonas Lyndby Jensen

A backrest, seat or protective shelter, Jonas Lyndby Jensen’s “Twist Chair” is something that would make an amazing accent seat for a bedroom. A creative addition to circular or curvilinear interior themes, the fabric choice, by Morten la Cour, was actually chosen because it echoes the naturalistic, protective design of a bird’s nest. Originally developed for use in a public library, the Twisted Chair is built from a single twisted band and has the added bonus of serving as a sound barrier for people who are interested in stealing away moments of quiet isolation to read their newest books on the Eames design process or check on up Freshome from their laptops.

Dressed-up furniture series

Kamkam is a design collective located in Seoul, Korea that includes Hyunjin Seo, Jaekyoung Kim, and Jaehoon Jung. Their Dressed Up Furniture looks like playful kid furniture but for adults! The idea is to combineclothing and furniture, making the pieces soft and approachable, and also interactive using fasteners such as buttons. The theme of “Dressed-up furniture series” is to combine clothes and furniture. It will make you feel fresh by mixing the familiar elements of normal actions like fastening a button and daily furniture like stool, storage and bench.

"The world biggest hotel, the first 10-star hotel"

Zorlu Ecocity, a Striking Green City within a City

Zorlu Ecocity is a Llewelyn Davies Yeang project located in Istanbul, Turkey. It’s a mixed-use development located at the southern extremity of Buyukdere Street in Istanbul. The plan is conceptualized as a “city within a city” and conforms to the city’s planning strategy to multiply the number of urban centers throughout the Marma region to relieve pressure on Istanbul’s historic core. Zorlu Ecocity will have 588,850 sm (6,338,329 sf) of accommodation, which includes office towers, residential towers, two hotels, apartments, and resort-style elderly units above a three story retail complex. In total, we’re talking about 14 towers ranging from 8 to 26 stories.

Zorlu Ecocity is a Llewelyn Davies Yeang project located in Istanbul, Turkey. It’s a mixed-use development located at the southern extremity of Buyukdere Street in Istanbul. The plan is conceptualized as a “city within a city” and conforms to the city’s planning strategy to multiply the number of urban centers throughout the Marma region to relieve pressure on Istanbul’s historic core. Zorlu Ecocity will have 588,850 sm (6,338,329 sf) of accommodation, which includes office towers, residential towers, two hotels, apartments, and resort-style elderly units above a three story retail complex. In total, we’re talking about 14 towers ranging from 8 to 26 stories.

FUSION VISION: Future New Town of Gwanggyo With Plantations Aroun...

FUSION VISION: Future New Town of Gwanggyo With Plantations Aroun...: The new city center designed by Dutch architects MVRDV for Gwanggyo, a city coming up 35 kms from Seoul in South Korea seems to be some...

Future New Town of Gwanggyo With Plantations Around The Terraces

The new city center designed by Dutch architects MVRDV for Gwanggyo, a city coming up 35 kms from Seoul in South Korea seems to be something taken out of the sci fi movies. Expected to be completed by 2011, the city is sufficient enough to hold 77000 inhabitants and has a design envisioned with two centers which is a mix of housing, culture, office, retail, and leisure and education spaces. Various atriums are created in the towers catering to various categories, with box hedges being planted on the roofs and terraces which in turn improves ventilation and reduces usage of energy and water.

FUSION VISION: The latest from Vincent Callebaut architects

FUSION VISION: The latest from Vincent Callebaut architects: We’re huge fans of conceptual, futuristic architecture. The NASA Ames Research Center’s renderings of space colonies from the 1970’s come to...

The latest from Vincent Callebaut architects

We’re huge fans of conceptual, futuristic architecture. The NASA Ames Research Center’s renderings of space colonies from the 1970’s come to mind. As well, the work of the influential Italian architectural group superstudio. Check out the latest from Vincent Callebaut Architects, a group who regularly produce far reaching architectural concepts. Their latest proposal is an ecological self-sustaining vertical farm to be located on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island adjacent to New York City.

It’s Where Fantasy Meets Architecture

There’s something reminiscent of an alien landscape in the towering silver whorls of architect Frank Gehry’s Experience Music Project in Seattle. And, really, who doesn’t see spaceships when looking at I.M. Pei’s Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland?
What could have inspired such famous architects to build structures that look like they belong in a Darren Aronofsky flick? According to architecture futurist Geoff Manaugh, creator of Bldgblog, there’s a not-so-hidden influence on contemporary architects that’s widely acknowledged but rarely discussed: the speculative architectures in fantasy and science fiction movies.
That’s why Manaugh organized an event at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where conceptual designers who make fantasy cities for movies like Star Wars, The Matrix and Minority Report addressed architecture and design students who will be making the real-life cities of tomorrow

FUSION VISION: Architecture and Landscape Digital Arts Challenge ...

FUSION VISION: Architecture and Landscape Digital Arts Challenge ...: Annie at Ballistic Media (no strangers to the blog with their extremely gorgeous books on digital art, which you can see on our webstore...

Architecture and Landscape Digital Arts Challenge winners

Annie at Ballistic Media (no strangers to the blog with their extremely gorgeous books on digital art, which you can see on our webstore here) kindly drops me a line to say that the winners of the NVArt digital art challenge – this year with the theme Art Space: Architecture and Landscape Digital Arts, the second in a worldwide series of digital art competitions – have been announced by NVIDIA and the CG Society. “We invited artists to stand on the shoulders of giants like architect Frank Gehry and gaze into the far reaches of their imaginations,” said Mark Snoswell, president of CGSociety, a global organization for digital artists. “Our artists have created wonderful places that are pure art, where one can wake each day to marvel at the play of light through fantastical spaces and at vibrant fusions of light, color, and texture.”

FUSION VISION: The Three Graces: Dubai

FUSION VISION: The Three Graces: Dubai: Historically in art, The Three Graces have been viewed as a symbol of lasting unity that represent joy, beauty and charm. NOX | Lars Spu...

The Three Graces: Dubai

 Historically in art, The Three Graces have been viewed as a symbol of lasting unity that represent joy, beauty and charm. NOX | Lars Spuybroek has designed a family of towers called The Three Graces in Dubai which emulates that very dynamic. The family of towers, which are currently in progress, will be interconnected by a footbridge that will reduce footprints on the piers. The symbolism of unity will make The Three Graces appear as a gate to the harbor on which it is situated.