The Commodore branded 8010/F Netbook features VIA C7-M CPU, Windows XP Home or Linux, 10.2″ Display with Webcam, 80GB HDD, 1GB RAM
and 802.11b/g and optional Bluetooth.
Its main appeal of course is probably the Commodore logo which will have children of the 80's remembering happier simpler times. Especially as the price (expected to be £325) is not exactly competitive in the cutthroat mini portable market.
Via: Retro To Go ,NRK, Pocket-lint
Brionvega is an Italian company that has been manufacturing televisions and radios since 1945. Their TV sets are as interesting to watch switched off as they are switched on thanks to their flamboyant essence of retro style. And if you want proof of this, then you can find many of their old designs of televisions and radios displayed as collectors items in museums.
This new concept, the Alpha TV, was designed by V12 design and has an uberly delicious retro vibe. With a smooth chrome frame and vibrant orange metal box this screams out style. It is accessorized with a chunky matching orange remote as well.
It would go remarkable well will my orange leather sofa. Funny, I never thought I would be able to match my television to the colour scheme of my living room.
Online Museum that pays tribute to nine decades of design developments and innovations and commemorates the 90thth Anniversary of Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd).
Its a shame though that its built in flash and the site designers thought obscuring the bottom of the product shots with a shiny white bar was in some way cool. Still it's an interesting site to visit, if you enjoy gazing at retro innovations.
Sony has announced that "Rolly" will be available in selected European outlets this October. "Rolly" is Sony's unique palm-sized music entertainment player which spins and dances to the rhythm of music.
Only a designer with a true passion for tea could create a teapot as beautiful as this, the Sorapot. Joey Roth, entranced by the unfurling of tealeaves, designed the Sorapot to emphasise this process so you may enjoy the small details. Sorapot suspends the process of tea making in a glass tube a few centimeters above your tabletop. Unlike standard teapots that confine tealeaves in a small mesh basket, your leaves will have full run of Sorapot's interior as they unfurl and change the hot water into tea. You might even see a tea-colored shadow cast by sunlight that passes through the tube and comes to rest in a gossamer puddle on your table. A beautiful contemporary addition to any table.
Sorapot is available in the UK to pre-order from February from www.joeyroth.com/sorapot.
Proxima by Alvino Design is a concept that combines elements of car and motorbike. It makes me think of an uber modern update of the Messerschmitt KR20.
DVICE has more details.
The Icare motorcycle concept from Enzyme Design has a look somewhere between Tron and Batman and is exceedingly cool.
Designed by Student Javad Ghaffarian for the Car Design News' 2008 design contest. The Magic Tricycle transforms into motorbike in tight spaces, but out of the highway uses all 3 wheels for stabilty. Read more (and view more images) at DVICE.
Trying to boast personal air-borne transportation, the Reconnaissance Copter is a single seater flyer that utilizes two props on either side of the vehicle along with the rudders mounted on the wing section to maneuver itself.
Read more about Hari Krishnan G's design concept on The Design Blog.
The four concepts above are from The Royal College of Art and seek create sustainable road vehicles for the future. Find at more over at Inhabitiat.
Winner of the unseen technology award at the Interior motives design award 2007, the MAG magnetic vehicle concept from Slovak designer Matúš Procháczka showcases two special technologies in one vehicle. Using magnetic power, the vehicle uses an electric engine that has a polarity which is the same as in road. Of course this will also require the roads to be made of huge concrete panels with magnets formed in them. (Read More)
BMW ZX-6 Concept for 2015 Created by Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design), in partnership with BMW, the BMW ZX-6 Concept interprest the needs and desires of adult drivers in the year 2015. Using the company’s trademark essence, in view of its future perspectives, the concept relies on an evolutionary style language that demands the future vehicles to be versatile.
Car Body Design via The Design Blog
Back in the day in the UK the original 2CV was pretty much the crappiest car on the road. with its bicycle like wheels and engine that ranged from 375 cc to 602 cc, which was less powerful than many motorbikes. How ever growing up in a pretty bohemian area, they were not uncommon. The motoring choice of crazy left wing "hippies" mainly female and often the cars where the colour green. In fact there was a childhood game we played called "green Citroen". which involved shouting "Green Citroen" and them whacking who ever was nearest to you to avoid bad luck.
Techfresh posted this concept by David Portela, which retains the "personality of the original model". In some ways it does, but somehow I can't see batty middle-aged vegans driving their supply of lentils home in it.
Nicko and Joe (comedians who also host the Bad Film Club at the Barbican) teach Sony's Rolly to dance to Footloose.
"Rolly is a palm-sized, egg-shaped device that rolls and spins like it’s dancing to the music.To choreograph an original routine, the unit comes with Rolly Choreographer software. Motions can either be created automatically by the software for a specific song, or for a creative twist, you can create customized choreography for your favorite music. Once choreography has been created, the software simulates how the device will move so you can preview the dance moves on a PC before transferring the routine to the unit."
Check out some of the other links below to see Rolly do his / her / its thing:
With Siamiss (DJ duo from Spain), Noel (German graffiti artist), Head and Neck Sessions (UK band who make electronic down-tempo music)
"Saffron, truffles and fine balsamic vinegar, as well as dried herbs, spices or precious Argan oil: These intelligent mini-scales always give exact measuring results." So says www.proidee.co.uk where the Spoon Scale retails for the bargain price of £24.95. How ever try as i might its just not truffles, balsamic vinegar, Saffron or any other upper middle class foodstuffs that come to mind. I'm sure the inventor was thinking food, just like Tanita where thinking Jewelery when they first released their cult mini scale. How ever for some reason a Dillinger song is running around in my brain.
Are you cruisin' for a boozin'? The only drinking and driving you should be doing this Christmas is with the radio controlled Booze Cruze. Simply fill up with your choice of tipple and drive it over through the obstacle course and enjoy your reward. £16.95.
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