Electric Car Nuvu by Nissan

Tags: electric car, Nissan, Nuvu, vehicles

Nissan had promised all of us environment friendly car lovers an electric car for the year 2010 and it intends to keep its promise. You can be sure that the Nuvu, which makes its first appearance at the Paris motor show this week, will be all you have waited for and more.

The Nuvu appears to be a golden beauty with a slightly futuristic design. The car has continuous curves that would make it as irresistible as women for car-crazy men, with a transparent roof for wondrous star-gazing on those long nightly pleasure drives. The Nuvu seats three, with one seat at the back. Apart from being electrical to make it eco-friendly, much of the cabin materials have been made from either organic or recycled materials.

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Versa-Quatic: Ride Your Car

Tags: car, vehicles, versa, Versa-Quatic

With the amount of new designs that are put on show every day, car designers have to come up with more than just shiny painting of a bright casing on four wheels. Motor bike fans would be pleased to know that there may soon be cars that they can ride, instead of drive.

The Versa-Quatic by Versa is an automated car concept that can seat two. This car will allow you to ride it by grace of the unique seating position that it offers the driver, or in this case the rider. The driver will have complete control of the car via his whole body, unlike traditional cars which allow you to use only your arms and feet. Driving a Versa-Quatic will be a most fascinating experience because turning, speeding and stopping the car is done by different movements of the whole body of the driver.

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A Personal Sub Concept To Take On The Deep waters

Tags: boats, C-Quester Submersible, Personal Subs, spaceships, Submarines, vehicles, water

Like always, we are interested in subs and especially those that are designed in a unique fashion. We just found a concept for a Personal Submarine C-Quester Submersible, which looks like a promising design. The chic contours and the high tech look reminds you of a space ship that you might have seen in your dreams or possibly in a movie.

It comes in metallic colors and the inner segment can hold a pair of passengers. It would be interesting to know what this concept might turn out to be, when manufactured. For now, we have no information either about it’s pricing or if it is ever going to be manufactured.

I would say, the personal submarine may encourage people to go into hiding in deep blue waters far away from everyone else. But Imagine being stuck with a boring lo0ver or evn a psychotic lover! It kinda sends shivers down my spine.

Via: Tuvie

Noah Wave Seat: Aquires Shape of Any Bottom

Tags: cargo transporter, Chair, Furniture, Jung Hoon Rhee, nanotube, Noah, polymer, seat, vehicles, Wave Seat

Ever tried to take a seat in a chair that just didn’t seem to want to accept your bottom? You fidget and turn this way and that and cross your legs and pull them up onto the seat, but you still can’t find a comfortable spot to rest your aching behind. Don’t let it bother you too much, not when the Wave Seat is here. Designed to shape like a wave, this seat, titled Noah, can comfortably accommodate every bottom of different shapes and sizes, ahum.

The Noah Wave Seatdesign that customises itself to every individual’s bottom shape is possible through the use of polymers infused with nanotube. When electric current passes through them at the moment of use, the nanotubes would stretch and contract, acquiring the shape of the user after stiffening and softening into shape. Designed by Jung Hoon Rhee, the concept would be ideal to be used for seats in vehicles and also to transport fragile cargo.

Via: YankoDesign

Futuristic Transport Designs by St.Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry

Tags: Aleksey Bondarev, Cargo Cycle, futuristic, Ivan Striganov, Katerina Aleshina, Olga Sall, SKAT, St. Petersburg State Academy, transport, vehicles, Vitaliy Kamishev

Futuristic designs have taken over almost every facet of our life. Perhaps the field that has been most influenced by futurism is the automobile field. St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry reveals several of their project designs for diplomas of Transport Design at the Department of Design. The designs seem to forecast the successful future careers of the students at the academy under the fruitful guidance of talented and inspiring teachers.

Designs developed by Katerina Aleshina and Vitaliy Kamishev for the concept of an urban vehicle which could have an advantage over other vehicles appear to be an innovative bus that can travel over public roads as well as trestles.

Aleksey Bondarev’s design of the Cargo Cycle intended for large sites, such as warehouses, within 3kms is a chic melange of an exercise bike and a loader that can handle over 50kgs of weight. Since it is pedal-driven, it requires no fuel and would thus be eco-friendly and healthy for the user, too.

Olga Sall has designed the SKAT, a tourist submarine which appears to seat eight people and has translucent covering so that the beautiful underwater scene maybe viewed, perhaps on the way to an underwater resort.

Ivan Striganov’s design of the Patrol ion-plane appears quite similar to the submarine SKAT, but is apparently intended for security. The space shuttle looks quite a bit like a drawing from an H.G Well’s story.
 
Via: Crooked Brains