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ECO cars projects

November 4th, 2009

In other articles we write about electric cars and also about small eco-friendly city car, and these cars are in productions or will be released in future. In this article, we can write about the projects cars, projects that can be possible cars in the future , or just will be a muse for others eco cars.

What is an eco-car?

An eco car can be a hybrid car, electric car, biodiesel, hydrogen car or a car that can consume alternative energy.

Explicit eco car

Explicit is a car designed by Kenyon Yeh, a designer from Taiwan, and the idea was to design a car for heavy traffic on city roads. Explicit is a single car transportation inspired by the sharpness and clearness of the visibility plus the sporty taste of the vehicle.

Explicit eco car 01

The vehicle is designed to adapt different situations and change its shape according to speed and parking purposes. Featuring a compact sporty design through hard and smooth lines, between straight and curved, the Explicit also integrates a trunk or storage at the rear for long or heavy-duty traveling.

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Fiat Multipla eco car

This car concept is designed by an Italian designer Andrea Spaggiari, and the car was designed for Canadian Auto Show. The vehicle concept that featuring an innovative frame structure seems to be the new Fiat Multipla.

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The designed divide the car in two parts, the outer cage and the interior capsule, which can be interchanged to meet the needs of different users. Accommodating up to six passengers comfortably, the EFS runs on a hydrogen fuel cell that powers four in-wheel motors and allows a safe and sustainable ride. The interior is so simple yet functional that the users can adjust or even detach it according to their needs. And a vibrant color scheme (both interior and exterior) gives it a typical Italian look. In short, the External Frame Structure is a modular vehicle that bends to the changing needs of the modern user.

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Curve Surfer eco car

Curve Surfer is a concept car designd by Michaël van Vuuren, and the project was designed for an international design contest, the Allivision 09. Curve Surfer is a car concept that provides an eco ride even without compromising on speed and performance. The car was inspired from a catamaran that symbolizes speed, pureness, energy, travel and passion, the futuristic vehicle runs on solar energy produced by solar panels located on the roof.

Curve Surfer eco car 01

Integrating a transparent floor or chassis for an exciting ride, the Curve Surfer features a modula
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Buildings with green roofs

October 22nd, 2009

We can find green roofs on houses, and also on office building. To have a green roof on building can be interpreted like a philosophy which focuses on increasing the efficiency of resource use energy, water and materials. A green building can be interpreted in many different ways, and one of the common views is that they should be designed and operated to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by efficiently using energy, water, protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity, and reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradation.

One of environmental feature of green buildings is a green roof. Green roof has extensive plantings on a rooftop or terrace, and these are popular with environmentalists because they reduce rainwater runoff.

Some of these buildings that have green roofs are presented in this article.

Waldspirale

The Waldspirale(wooded spiral) is the name of a residential building complex in Darmstadt, Germany, the building was built in the 1990s. The Waldspirale is a green building designed by an Austrian artist, Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

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There are other apartment buildings in Darmstadt, but the U-shaped Waldspirale is special. The roof of the altogether 12 floors is covered with grass, shrubs and trees and the facade follows an irregular grid organization. The building contains 105 apartments, a parking garage, a kiosk as well as a café and a bar, the last two being located at the top of the spiral.

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The building has more than 1000 windows. Not one of these windows are shaped the same in this “out of line” building, and many have “tree tenants” growing right through them. Some of the apartments are decorated in Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s personal style and exhibit the colorful tiles in the bath and kitchen that are characteristic of his work.

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A-cero Wins Research Center for Renewable Energy

The project was born on architectural competition for an academic center that researches renewable energy sources, when Joaquín Torres was the direction of principal.

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The building that blends in with the surrounding landscape aims to reach highest goals in sustainable architecture. The international competition was organized by the commission of Education, Formation and Employment of the Murcia region in Spain.
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Trends in Concept Watches

October 14th, 2009

Watches have always been about more than simply telling the time. A century ago just about every briton lived and worked within earshot of a church, the bells of which would toll the quarter hours regularly as the Greenwich pips do today. But to be able to pull out a polished fob marked you out as a man of importance. You can buy one of this watches (if you have a lot of money), the watches are very expensive because the creation of very expensive and very intricate watches is a long tradition within the relatively brief history of the industry, which really only got going in the latter half of the 19th century, or you can wait to appears one of the following concept watches on the market.

Today clocks are built into mobiles and other gadgets we carry, and 12 of this gadgets you can see in this article, so watch makers have to come up withever weirder ways to make us take notice.

ON AIR Wrist Watch

ON AIR Wrist Watch is a concept design watch designed by Turkey designer Iskender Asanaliev, and the watch shows time in an extraordinary minimal way. While LED display shows minutes in number, its position shows us the current hour. Display is also function as a light and set button, if you push once LED lights up.

ON AIR Wrist Watch

To set the time you need just to push in the center of the display for 5 seconds and LED flashes, here you push upper or lower corner of the display to set the hour and the left and right corner to set minutes.

Aero concept watch

The watch is inspired by new Mini Cooper car, and the result is a concept watch which is aerodynamic automatic watch with flowing curves. The watch is build by using aerospace aluminum and rubber, the time is displayed like a car speedometer with a gauge for the spring’s tension.

Aero concept watch

Moreover, the high aerodynamic automatic watch touts flowing curves, presenting a smooth and stylish gadget for the trendy users.

Shot Laser Watch concept

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Here is a futuristic watch concept that uses a modulated laser scanner to projects the time onto the surface of your wrist. It looks like a normal bracelet but when you press a discreet button and laser light will reflects the time on your wrist. The watch is designed by Andy Kurovets. It just a low-powered laser beam so you don’t afraid that it won’t cut your skin off.

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Three-wheels vehicles

October 9th, 2009

A three wheeled car is an automobile having either one wheel in the front for steering and two at the rear for power, two in the front for steering and one in the rear for power, or any other combination of layouts.

Having one wheel in front and two in the rear for power reduces the cost of the steering mechanism, but greatly decreases stability. However, a configuration of two wheels in the front and one wheel at the back has many strong proponents among automotive designers and enthusiasts. Two advantages are its improved aerodynamics, and that it readily enables small lightweight motorcycle powerplants and rear wheels to be used.

Like four wheels cars, three wheels cars can have an electric engine and can be in the same time green cars.

A three-wheeler car from Venture

Venture develop a car for two passenger, three-wheeled vehicle powered by either a pure plug-in electric or plug-in hybrid petrol-electric powertrain. The name of the car is VentureOne, and the model is designed and built on the existing Carver three-wheeler already available in Europe.

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Even if the car has a single front wheel, VentureOne has more in common with a conventional car than a motorcycle due to the fully enclosed cabin, upright seating position, steering wheel, foot pedals and gear stick.

The VentureOne will be available in three configurations including the Venture d50 Hybrid Drive which has a 50 kW powertrain, the faster Venture Q100 Hybrid Drive which has a 100 kW powertrain (giving the Q100 a 120 mph / 193 km/h top speed!) and the all-electric Venture EV which has a 40 kW powertrain and reduced range, but zero emissions. In addition to the low-emission, flex-fuel Hybrid model, a zero-emission all-electric version is also being developed that will have an all-electric range of nearly 200 miles.

A three-wheeler car from Venture 02

Safety features being integrated into the design include a chrome-moly steel roll-cage, collapsible steering column, side impact rails, driver’s airbag and break-away engine mount. Three-point driver and passenger seatbelts, safety glass, digital traction control and ABS are all standard safety elements.

Brontes three-wheeled vehicle with zero emissions

This car is a concept car called Brontes, and it’s designed by Spanish car designer Marco Aurelio Galan Henriquez. Brontes runs on electric engine giving you a sustainable city driving. This environmentally friendly car seats two passengers and features amazing exterior looks. The concept car is powered by a lithium-ion battery that powers its electric engines. The car is not designed for speed performances, and in this case do not expect high speed or long-distance driving range as the car uses just 3 wheels.

Brontes three-wheeled vehicle with zero emissions

According to its designer, the car measures 2, 7 meters in length, 1, 8 meters in width and 1, 34 meters in height. Thanks to its electric engine, the Brontes car features a silent cruising.
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Bicycles will always remain green

September 25th, 2009

To be friendlier with the environment, most of people use bike to move from home to work and back, for sport, for hiking and the list it’s opened. The bike is 100% green, we don’t need any kind of energy to use it, without our energy, you should use just the pedal the bike.

When you use a bike, it’s important to be safe, and for this you should use equipment especially created for bicycle. An accident can be happened, and the injuries can be serious, and a minimum protection is to use a helmet. A helmet can provide some protection for your head and brain in case you fall down.

Next in this article, I will present you bikes of the future, bike which are inspired by nature, electrical bike, bike which can be used as electrical generator and other bikes which are distinguished by an exceptional design.

M.S.Q.T.O Quad Bike
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M.S.Q.T.O Quad Bike is a bike inspired by mosquito, and is created to provide an entirely new biking experience from all aspects. The biker’s seating arrangement has been done in a dominative manner over the road, just like the fear of mosquitoes dominates, even though the size of the bike is competitively small.

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TFL Bikeshare

The bike is a concept bike designed by Gabriel Wartofsky, and is designed to be an efficient and healthy way to realize the ultimate solution for commuters. The idea is to use this bike from home to bus, and deposited to modular mobile hub, and board a bus. Upon arrival at destination, another hub will be there to rent another bike through using the unique Oystercard which can be availed by leasing the service on a trip or monthly basis.

TFL Bikeshare 01

The bike is designed to be folded quickly and intuitively by the user and deposit it into the storage modules after arriving to a transit hub. RFID technology has been utilized to charge the users on their Oystercard according to the amount of E-bike rental time. When docked, E-bikes act as hub seating and get charged for the next renter.

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The electrical modular buses aim to optimize the needs of next generation commuters by providing ultimate convenience for public transit. The specialized interior space addresses the diverse needs of passengers. The compact and ergonomically bended seating arrangement provides a safer environment for seat occupiers and the standing passengers downstairs for short distant travel. On the other hand, long-distance travelers and tourists will be able to enjoy the city from panoramic second floor.
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