I have always been a fan of car concepts. Every year we see cars designed by designers who want to take them to the next level. With functionality and being environment friendly, a common trend in recent concepts one would think that there is no way designers can make mistakes. Enter the BMW Lovos.
Designed by 24 year old Pforzheim University graduate Anne Forschner, the name of the car means Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity. This name is derived from the 260 scale like photovoltaic cells that recurs at the car’s exterior. Each of these move and follow the sun possibly to power the car in a way.
Early this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, just announced that Facebook has just crossed the 300 million mark with its subscribers. With this announcement, the number 1 social networking site, also turned its first profit since its inception.
This video of the Citroën GT is getting a lot of views lately on Youtube.
Set to become one of the most expensive production cars sold today, this vehicle is a true scene stealer with its stylish exterior and drool worthy interior. Originally designed for the game Gran Turismo, the car is set to be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show this coming September at a whopping $1.8 Million U.S. dollars.
I have just seen the leaked Wolverine DVD and I am afraid I have made a mistake of seeing the unfinished product and spoiling some of the surprises the plot has to offer. I still did enjoy the movie and think that the final release on theaters on May 1 is worth seeing. Here are ten reasons why you should NOT search for the leaked movie anymore and why you should wait and watch the official release when it comes out on May.
1. It is yet unfinished. Marvel movies are effects movies and they won’t be complete nor would be as awesome without the eye popping computer generated effects in them. The leaked movie still lacks a lot of the major effects and even shows unrendered 3D in gray on many of the scenes. There are also parts of the movie where one will see the use of green screen and suspension wires.
This week, Tata Motors from India just released what a lot are saying is a breakthrough in motoring. Priced at just $2000, the Tata Nano is now considered to be the world’s cheapest car. For this reason, the Tata is now also dubbed as the People’s car. The car currently has three variants with the basic not having air-conditioner, power steering, passenger side mirror nor an extra windscreen wiper.
The Nano has already won the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Transportation category in a ceremony last October with the judges falling in love with its design. According to Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Motors,, this car hopes to “revolutionize the lives of millions of Indians, most of whom live in rural areas many miles from the nearest bus stop. Even with its low price, the Nano is built to meet safety requirement, is fuel efficient and is low on emissions. So far the car is compared to the Volkswagen Beetle which also was an icon in the German Motoring industry.
I have had my share of weird concepts that will surely never see the light of day in a thousand years. I remember my YouTube video of concept cars for the year 2057 and how a lot of people are expressing disbelief that such cars will ever come into production, now or ever.
Today, I came into contact with an art concept for the BMW which just had me thinking a big WTF in my mind. (Yeah I had to keep the WTF as letters in my mind.) This is an art work from artist Olaffur Eliasson which looks more like a dried beehive than a car to me. I still think this artwork is gorgeous, though I clearly don’t see why its base should be a car. Required to be kept in fridge temperature, this hydrogen powered racecar is under an exhibit called Your Mobile Expectations.
Every now and then you stumble upon someone who just wow’s you. That is how I felt this morning when I saw a gallery of Patrick Brown’s artwork on Kontraband. Patrick Brown is a 23 year old graphic artist from Australia who draws really awesome representations of popular characters in TV movie and video games. He looks like a really avid fan of Grand Theft Auto as shown in his work.
I think his work is worth checking out. I like how his drawings have some sort of identity in them. I wish I can make my sketches as good as his.
I just came across this awesome graphic from GoodMagazine which puts all the highlights of Motoring in the country for the past year in a Monopoly like diagram. Not only does this representation look good, but it also makes something interesting on what could have been a really boring subject.
A few of the details worth noting and mentioning from the diagram are the following:
I can still remember, how not more than three years ago, an attack to the former president, George Bush was done on the internet. This made his biographical page on the Whitehouse.gov site appear as the number 1 result for a search for the word “miserable failure”. This was quickly resolved by Google and was identified as something called a googlebomb. Though an obvious pun, this was not something of a laughing matter, especially since it is an attack to the person of the former president and his seat.
Now, with President Barack Obama having just assumed office, it looks like the former president gave him far more than economic problems and the troubles of war from his term.
Less than three days since the new president took over, search engines are now showing Barack Obama at the top results for “miserable failure” on Yahoo and for “failure” on Google. This was explained by internet marketer Danny Sullivan on his blog as a result of “redirects” that were used to correct the problem before. He actually gave a call to action for the former president’s IT team to clean up that problem before the change in administration (and website) happens. It looks like that warning was not heeded.
A few weeks ago, I got word from a friend about what they call an SEO World Cup, hosted by a company called Busby Web Solutions. This is not the first time that I have come across this contest and with a little background on internet marketing I decided to check out how this thing goes.
Designed by 24 year old Pforzheim University graduate Anne Forschner, the name of the car means Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity. This name is derived from the 260 scale like photovoltaic cells that recurs at the car’s exterior. Each of these move and follow the sun possibly to power the car in a way.
This is an art work from artist 
