Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 598
Nov 20, 2015
Australian all-electric bus drives into record books – 1,018km on one charge
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
After successfully driving from Melbourne to Sydney on one charge, Brighsun’s all-electric bus has clocked a Guinness World Record of 1,018km on one charge.
Nov 20, 2015
Volvo teams with Microsoft HoloLens for virtual car buying
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: augmented reality, transportation
In the near future, car buyers may find themselves putting on Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset in order to check out a Volvo in a kind of virtual showroom. The car manufacturer has announced a partnership with Microsoft to incorporate the HoloLens into the car buying experience. The concept they debuted today images a customer and car dealer putting on the headset and interacting with a holographic car.
The HoloLens would allow users to do the typical things one would expect when shopping for a car, like comparing colors and wheel rims, as well as much more, like inspecting a projection of the engine from any angle, getting a view of what it’s like to sit inside, or experience demonstrations of a car’s unique features.
Nov 20, 2015
Driving will be obsolete sooner than we thought
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Nov 20, 2015
This high-tech car seat will detect your stress level and give you a massage
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Nov 17, 2015
The largest airplane ever built has a wingspan that’s nearly the length of a football field
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Nov 17, 2015
This drivable car was just 3D printed in 44 hours
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, transportation
Nov 17, 2015
Airbus Envisions Transparent Airplane Cabin Walls in Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: business, internet, transportation
Transparent walls and customized cabins may be ahead, according to Airbus.
If you think in-flight Wi-Fi and lie-flat seats are cutting edge, just wait until 2050. That’s when aircraft cabins will feature holographic pop-up gaming displays and seats that adjust to each passenger’s size and shape, according to Airbus. In its vision for the future, Airbus predicts that the cabin walls of planes will be transparent, providing amazing views of the earth. Those with vertigo could block the view with an opaque hologram around their seat. Themed zones will replace first, business and economy classes, so individuals could choose areas in which to relax, play games, interact with other passengers or hold business meetings with people on the ground. This could even top the flying car.
Nov 17, 2015
The beauty of bikes — redesigning two wheels — By Rowan Moore | The Guardian
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: environmental, media & arts, transportation
“For bicycles are messengers. Picasso recognised that they carry meaning when he made a saddle and handlebars into a bull’s head, and Duchamp (in his case, non-meaning) when he put a bicycle wheel in an art gallery.”
Nov 16, 2015
These wheels can take you in any direction without turning
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Ugh, this is just typical. You think you know the way the world works: wind blows, fire burns, wheels spin and – wait, what’s this thing doing?
What? You mean, it can actually move in any direction without so much as turning on an axis? That’s blowing my mind. I’m no gear head, but I’m sort of attached to having a steering wheel in my car, you know? Now you’re saying that self-driving cars will take those away, and now there won’t even be wheels to turn in the direction you want to go in?
