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MERCEDES-BENZ FUTURE BUS

Posted on July 20, 2016

When you think of your ordinary city bus, the last thing you think of is sexy. Well, this isn’t your ordinary bus. Leave it to Mercedes Benz to completely flip the script on the bus industry and bring the world ‘Future Bus’: a modern, sleek, safe, efficient, and beautifully designed piece of modern transportation.

But of course, this type of efficiency won’t be seen in the States any time soon. Future Bus will make its first appearance in the Netherlands, a common jump-off point for new technology that isn’t strapped by, um, big business and politics.

Pop Shit Tech

NES CLASSIC EDITION

Posted on July 15, 2016

Stick to the classics! Nintendo is re-releasing their game-changing NEC gaming system with 30 games out-of-the-box for around $60 by end of year.

With the insane pace of today’s technology, sometimes it’s good to just kick back with a classic. Simply plug the system into your TV or monitor and your instantly transported back to 1989.

Expect this mini NES to drop before the holidays in November.

Design Tech

PILOT TRANSLATING EARPHONES

Posted on May 20, 2016

Trying to understand someone who doesn’t speak your language could be a thing of the past, thanks to this new piece of technology.

Pilot earphones act like much like Babel Fish in ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ – they let two people who speak a different language understand each other.

The gadget will launch to translate between English, French, Spanish and Italian in Autumn of this year.

Tech

Boom Supersonic Inks Deal with Virgin Air

Posted on March 27, 2016

Get From New York to London in 3.5 Hours With Boom

via HypeBeast.com: Boom is a relatively new start up that is trying to make supersonic travel a reality. Supersonic to the tune of 2.6x the speed of sound. This would mean trips from New York to London would be possible in 3.5 hours, and SF to Tokyo in 4.5.

While the company is still working on their first prototype, they have a lot of experienced employees who know what they’re doing. The 11-person team has collectively contributed to over 30 aircrafts working on things such as the autopilot system on the 787, fighter plane engines, and flight dynamics on Spaceship Two. A roster of ex-NASA, ex-Boeing and ex-Lockheed doesn’t sound too bad. They hope to get their first prototype in the air late next year.

Even more exciting though, is the big name that just signed on to help. Virgin Group has optioned ten planes in a deal valued at about $2 billion dollars — if everything goes to plan. Boom has also optioned 15 additional planes to a European carrier, bringing the total value of the optioned planes to $5 billion.

Virgin is also helping Boom in its development, with a Virgin spokesperson saying, ““We can confirm that The Spaceship Company will provide engineering, design and manufacturing services, flight tests and operations and that we have an option on the first 10 airframes. It is still early days and just the start of what you’ll hear about our shared ambitions and efforts.”

Learn more about the company and its developments on its website.

Gear Tech

IDEAL CONCEAL DOUBLE BARREL SMARTPHONE PISTOL

Posted on March 18, 2016

Ideal-Conceal-Double-Barrel-.380-Caliber-Smartphone-Pistol

Introducing the Ideal Conceal .380 Caliber Pistol Smartphone

Looking to hide your .380 in plain sight? Check out the Ideal Conceal Double Barrel .380 Caliber Pistol which doubles as a smartphone.

With features like a flashlight, laser, one-piece design, and hammerless control, this .380 boasts nothing but concealment, accuracy and style.

Be on the lookout at your local gun shows, and expect this piece to retail around $400.

Gear Tech

PlayStation VR Headset

Posted on March 18, 2016

If you’ve been following any of the trends going down at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin Texas, you know that VR is taking the revelers by storm. 2016 looks to be the year when just about every brand will try their hand in the virtual reality world, especially the gaming world.

After years of testing and teasing, Sony announced that they’ll be releasing the PlayStation VR headset this coming October 2016.

Sony has an arsenal of about 230 developers working on ensuring you’ll have plenty of games to sync-up with your new VR headset.

As of today, it looks like the PlayStation VR will retail for around $400.

Rides Tech

Drone VS a McLaren at Dubai’s World Drone Prix

Posted on March 3, 2016

Check out this battle of today’s latest technology as a drone takes on a McLaren Police car in Dubai.

As with most events in Dubai, drone racing has a big pot of gold for the ultimate drone racer. Expect upwards of $1 million USD in prize money, as well as over 100 teams from around the globe.

Tech

France Plans to Build Miles of Solar Panel Paved Roads

Posted on February 10, 2016

France is joining the Netherlands and Korea in the solar road club. The French government plans 620 miles of energy-generating pavement, which will be able to provide power for up to 8% of the country’s population.

Construction will take place over the next five years, using Wattway panels from Colas. These quarter-inch thick panels are glued straight onto the roadway, and act much like regular road—they’re strong enough for trucks, and drivers won’t easily skid when they brake while driving on them. The panels, says the manufacturer, require about 215-square-feet of surface area to generate enough electricity to power a home. That means about 0.6 miles of paved road should be enough to supply a town of 5,000 people.

Roads seem to be the perfect spot for solar power. Roads already ugly, so it’s hard to make them look worse; they’re usually not covered, so they get plenty of light; and roads are the very definition of infrastructure, so there’s no problem hooking them up to the electric grid. Provided the panels can hold up to heavy traffic, it should be an interesting experiment.

VIA Fast Company