A Swiss company called Rinspeed says it has created the world's first truly submersible car - named "sQuba," the car can run both on road, & at the push of a button - go up to 10 meters (33 feet) underwater. This car has a steel chassis, while the body panels are made of carbon nanotubes. On road, an electric motor provides rear-wheel drive & underwater, its two propellers & two jet drives which are at work. Its an environmentally friendly design. A self-contained on-board oxygen system is also included in this two-seater to supply the driver & passenger with fresh air. Its also said that it has costed more than 1 million euros ($1.62 million) to make the only sQuba built so far.
Here is another one from Rinspeed called "Splash", another of the high performance amphibious vehicle. It looks quite a stylish car that can be driven at high speeds in the water too.
The state of the Russian roads are known to all, & if someone has to go through a road filled with water, how would that be? Here is a test drive of Lada Niva, which was made to drive under water.
This is supposed to be designed & built by special Soviet car company during the sixties. In comparison to the technology & the features available in the cars during those days, this car was far advanced. It had a press button to start the engine, the gear selected was shown in the dashboard, & it had heating both the windscreens. And the best part was it could go in water & also on the road like any other car.
A perfect place to spend weekend in leisure, some of these look traditional & some are modern. And it all depends where & what type of a houseboat you choose. Though most of these are equipped with the things one needs to be comfortable. These include fridge, oven, TV, DVD player, CD, Cassette player, FM radio, & various other things.
This is a unique iconic mobile theater which will represent the Arts Alliance & their performance worldwide created by Various Architects.
First test model on the new in-house 3D printer from Z-corporation.
A 4 x 6 meter test piece of the exterior inflatable skin has been ordered for the model. It has two parts of the large inflatable hexagons & a translucent inflated window pane which will together form the exterior surfaces of the Mobile theater.
The first inflation of the full-scale model was at the offices of ESS in London. This is the first in a series of full-scale models for the inflatable structural skin of the theater.
It is a five-screen cinematic performance where live dancers perform in front of, behind, & between the screens throughout the show. For the five screens, sails draped over shipping containers were used. It worked well in the Yokohama harbor where both containers & cranes to move them were in abundance. But it was not practical in other central urban locations. Hence there was a need for a new mobile theater that can be conveyed easily around the world & is suitable for almost any site. It should be an inflatable structure with dramatic effects to make it a memorable experience.
Peter Michel, a model airplane builder is famous for making small working copies of real aircrafts. He builds model airplanes & replicas of the most famous aircrafts in the world. His work includes the making of small working copies of Airbus, Boeing, Concorde, DC-10 & MD-11. Here are some of his works:
Creative ads created for gym by making the best use of the existing cranes on various construction sites, these billboards gives an illusion as if the big boys here are really doing the thing. But all this must have cost a packet to produce. Neat idea though, nice one.
Here is another one though this doesn't use any crane or such thing but its really interesting one:
