Takeoka Jidosha Kogei’s electric minicar gets slightly more macro, even more cute
Japanese minicar manufacturer Takeoka Jidosha Kogei’s Milieu R is the perfect car for anti-social folks, featuring only one seat and a range of 50km that’s just enough to make your commute while being limited enough to get you out of going to the bar afterward. Thus far those who socialize only with (very) small animals have been left out of the company’s offerings, but that all changes with this new prototype, the T10. It’s ever so slightly larger, gaining 90mm in length and 40mm in width, maki
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eBay Find of the Day: Sole remaining 1995 Ford Thunderbird SVT prototypeFiled under: Concept Cars, Coupes, Auction Action, Ford, Special/Limited Editionsclick above for gallery of this special svt thunderbirdit might not be the very anything else production thunderbird ever made, but it is a pretty special t-bird nonetheless, and it is up on account of auction, not at barrett-jackson, but measure on ebay motors. item digit 190283235126 is a rare, 1 of 4, 1995 ford thunderbird svt concept prototy
‘Fantastic Voyage’: A pill that navigates (International Herald Tribune)
Philips Research has developed a prototype for a pill that can navigate toward a specific spot in the body and deposit its medicine there, radioing dispatches to the doctor as it travels.
Bizarro Dewanatron Synth Demo
Bizarro Dewanatron Synth Demo31Jan09 Send to a Friend | Feed for this Entry | Filed under: Strange, Synthesizers Leon and Brian Dewan playing their DewanatronDual Primate Console at Carousel Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY. Dewanatron makes folk synthesizers:These prototype synthesizers are made in the tradition of historical folk instruments, created solely for the use of its maker and need not be housed in a refined console suitable for the school, church or p
Homegrown heroes give Romanov cause for reflection (Sunday Herald)
Vladimir Romanov watched his side in action for the first time this season yesterday and was, with a strong whiff of irony, presented with a prototype of everything a forward thinking, well-run club can be - and all that his outfit, at present, are not.
Semantic E-Mail Delivery - Erica Naone, Technology Review
A prototype e-mail system being tested at Stanford University later this year will radically change how users specify where their messages are supposed to be delivered. Called SEAmail, for “semantic e-mail addressing,” the system allows users to direct a message to people who fulfill certain criteria without necessarily knowing recipients’ e-mail addresses, or even their names.
eBay Find of the Day: Sole remaining 1995 Ford Thunderbird SVT prototype
Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupes, Auction Action, Ford, Special/Limited Editions Click above for gallery of this special SVT Thunderbird It might not be the very first production Thunderbird ever made, but it is a pretty special T-Bird nonetheless, and it is up for auction, not at Barrett-Jackson, but rather on eBay Motors. Item number 190283235126 is a rare, 1 of 4, 1995 Ford Thunderbird SVT Concept prototype. The description tells us that the other three were crushed by the Blue Oval, ma
?Fantastic Voyage,? Revisited: The Pill That Navigates (New York Times)
Philips Research has developed a prototype for a pill that can navigate toward a specific spot in the body and deposit its medicine there, radioing dispatches to the doctor as it travels.
IMM Cologne 2009: Interview with FOC’s Janne Kyttanen
Founded in 2000, Freedom of Creation (FOC) is the first design company to specialize entirely in using layer manufacturing for its products, also known as rapid manufcturing. By using the RM process that allows a CAD file to be transformed into a solid object, significant economic and environmental benefits can eventually be realized. Finnish designer Janne Kytannen focused on rapid prototyping techniques during his design studies which then became the basis for the company. Over the years, F
India’s $10 Laptop
The Times of India reports that a $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati on February 3 when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Techology is launched. The $10 laptop project, first reported in TOI three years ago, has come as an answer to the $100 laptop of MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte that he was trying to hardsell to India. The $10 laptop has come out of the drawing board stage due to work put in by students of
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