Rinspeed sQuba is the perfect James Bond’s Car. And she is ecologic.
Genius Frank Rinderknecht just created a superb electric Roadster that is the first world submersible car.
Squba has 3.79 m long, 1.94 m width and 1.12 m tall, it weights 920 kg and looks like the Lotus Elise. It goes from 0 to à 80 km/h in 7.1 seconds and max speed is 120 km/h.
sQuba uses lithium-ion batteries.
sQuba can go underwater with two back propellers and two lateral Seabob jet drives, responsible for keeping the car stable. It can goes under a maximum depth of 10 m and speed is 6 km/h above the water and 3 km/h under.
Passengers use oxygen cylinders. “If the car was a hardtop, all the cabin would have to be really strong to cope with the water pressure. This would add lots of extra weight to the car and it would move very slowly out of the water as well”.
Toyota just unveiled 2 new domestic robots, one playing violin with 17 computer-controlled joints in its arms and fingers and the other carrying people.
Toyota has one goal : having robots being capable to help people in domestic duties, nursing, healthcare and short-distance personal transport by 2010.
Toyota also presented a two-wheeled intelligent mobility robot that can be used for elderly or disabled people over uneven ground and around obstacles “without disturbing the person sitting on the chair because of the wheels’ ability to adjust at the changes“.
Community members add stories about the best future-focused content (predictions by experts, discoveries that will impact future events, product prototypes, industry forecasts, useful resources, etc.) and sorts it by future Year and Category.
The design of Future Scanner is pretty ugly but stories are interesting.
Future Scanner is part of the MemeBox Network (Jeff hifford is the CEO.)
Nice niche-content digg-like for all of you who like technology, innovation and future of humankind.
Here is a short film about what could be your Life 2.0 : a brain that would integrate more than 1000 new functions such as Weather, Calendar, Clock, GPS, Life Chat, phone, a video camera, etc…
Google just announced today that they will bid in the Wireless FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Spectrum Auction in January.
Winning the wireless spectrum auction in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band would allow Google to provide mobile phone and Internet services. The reserve price for the C Block at the auction is $4.6 billion.
According to Official Google Blog the winner of the Spectrum Auction will be: CONSUMER.
The winner will have to allow their users to download any software app they want on their mobile device and to use any mobile devices they would like on that wireless network.
“We believe it’s important to put our money where our principles are” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
What we don’t know is what Google intends to do exactly with this Spectrum..
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