Sunbeam Tiger LSR Car

Sunbeam Tiger Concept is a 2 seater sports car inspired by 1925 Sunbeam Tiger Land Speed Record car, and designer Ryan Skelley is a design student of Coventry University creates it to celebrate the centenary of the original Sunbeam (1925-2025) Now it is only 2009? OK, anyway... The Sunbeam Tiger is powered by electric engine, 0- 60 mph in 2.3 seconds, top speed at 160mph and a single charge for 800 miles. And it also packed a lithium-titanate battery pack with a full change in four hours. The Tiger Concept is made of eco materials, including recycled aluminum tubular chassis, soy foam seats with Biofabric, vegetable oil resin body panels... It looks cool, good concept!

Mercedes-Benz F-CELL Roadster

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the F-CELL Roadster project. The F-CELL Roadster is controlled with drive-by-wire technology, and a joystick takes the place of a conventional steering wheel. The vehicle is powered by a 1.2 kW emission-free fuel cell system located at the rear. It could reach a top speed of 25 km/h and achieve an operating range of up to 350 km(217 mile)."The F-CELL Roadster uniquely combines state-of-the-art technologies with the history of vehicle construction. As an allusion to the Benz Patent Motor Car from 1886, the vehicle is fitted with large spoked wheels.Moreover, the F-CELL Roadster incorporates stylistic elements from diverse eras of automotive history, such as the carbon-fiber bucket seats with hand-stitched leather covers and the distinctively styled fiberglass front section, based on the component from the Formula One racing bolides."

COLOR PICKER

RED DOT:

Red Dot award: design concept 2008

Color Picker is a pen that enables colors in the environment to be scanned and instantly used for drawing.

The things around us, whether natural or artificial, display an infinite and diverse range of beautiful colors from which we are able to draw much inspiration. Color Picker is a pen that allows the user to scan and immediately use any color they see. The user is not only able to scan colors from objects in the environment, but also from color chips. Color Picker is convenient and easy to use. The pen is placed against an object and the user presses the color scan button. The color sensor detects the color and displays it on the color display. The RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks to create the color scanned. The user is then able to use the color to draw.

Color Picker aids in the observation of nature’s changing colors. Most people paint the leaves of trees green, despite the fact that they change their color according to the seasons. With Color Picker, children as well as adults are able to develop a more acute sensorial and visual perception of the colors of nature that surround them. The user will be able to develop their own palette of of colors, such as “winter apple” or “tree on a gloomy day”. Color Picker is an innovative design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button. The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature. With color picker, all range of artists will be able to cerate a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors.