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  • Twizy

    Renault Twizy Urban

    Renault Twizy “delivers all the fundamentals associated with any car, namely four wheels, a steering wheel and pedals, plus an enveloping body for two occupants sitting in tandem.”.

    “Customers will lease the battery. The monthly subscription is €45 inclusive of taxes.
    The integrated battery charger can be plugged into any 220V (10A) household electrical supply.
    The battery fully charges in three-and-a-half hours.”.

    Renault Twizy Technic

    Dimensions (L x W x H): 2,32 x 1,19 x 1,46 m
    Numbers of seats: 2
    Weight: 450 Kg
    Power – Max speed: 7 Kw – 45 Km/h (Urban) / 15 Kw – 80 Km/h (Technic)
    Autonomy: 100 Km
    Standard equipment: driver airbag, front and rear seat belts, four disc brakes.
    Price: from Eur 6990 (in Europe). Available from end of 2011.

    Above: Twizy Urban. Below: Twizy Technic. See also: Twizy Lab Design.

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  • Espresso Book Machine

    “The Espresso Book Machine is essentially an ATM for books.

    Using digital files, it automatically prints, binds, and trims, on demand at point of sale, perfect-bound, library-quality paperback books with full-color covers.

    The EBM’s growing digital library includes nearly two million titles.”.

  • Flip Mino

    The Flip Mino is a skinnable pocket digital camcorder.

    Internal Memory: 2GB (60 minutes)
    Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
    Bitrate: 4.0 Mbps (average)
    Aperture: f/2.4
    Fixed focus, digital zoom
    Dimensions: 100 x 50 x 16 mm
    Weight: 100 g

    Price: from $199 (in USA).

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  • Future Perfect

    petrol station “I currently conduct research for Nokia Design developing new applications, services and products that, if I do my job right, you’ll using 3 to 15 years from now.
    Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at least naive, at worst dangerous, though typically it, and IMHO the people that do it are just boring.”.

    “Future Perfect is a pause for reflection in our planet’s seemingly headlong rush to churn out more, faster, smaller and cheaper.”.
    (Jan Chipchase)

    Above: This Is A Petrol Station, Ho Chi Minh City, detail.

  • Tata Nano

    Tata Nano.
    Length 3,1 m ; width 1,5 m ; height 1,6 m.
    Metal body, four doors, four seats.

    Rear engine, 2 cylinder petrol fuel injection, 623 cc, 24 kW (33Hp)
    Four speed manual transmission.

    Maximum speed: 105 km/h
    Fuel economy (combined): 20 km/l

    Price (in India): from $2500 (Eur 1700).

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    Above: Tata Nano (Luxury version), at the Auto Expo 2008, New Delhi (from Reuters India).

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  • A-bike

    “So named because of its "A" like shape in use, the A-bike is designed to be folded and unfolded* in under 10 seconds with a 3 click telescopic mechanism, to a folded size just 67 x 30 x 16 cm.
    Heat treated aluminum and high strength glass fibre reinforced engineering polymer constitute the majority of the frame. Weight: 5.6kg.
    The internal twin chain gearing system is totally encased at the rear. Pedal cadence remains the same as a normal bike.”.
    The A-bike, from Sinclair Research.    		 A-bike

    Right: A-bike, from Binch Shin‘s photo.
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  • Strida

    “The Strida is the only folding bike that is greaseless, corrosion resistant, and virtually maintenance free. It’s also the world’s lightest folding production bike and can easily be rolled when folded.”.

    strida

  • The 99$ PC

    A PC for 99 $: the E-Way TU Tiny 200.

    Tiny (dimensions: 11.5 x 11.5 x 3.5 cm; weight: 500 g.) has 128 MB Ram, a fanless 200Mhz CPU, 3 USB ports, and a Compact Flash slot; includes LAN, VGA, and audio.

    The TU Tiny is compatible with Linux (for example with Puppy Linux, that runs using a 128MB USB Flash Card).

    See also: the NorhTech MicroClient Jr, that share the same concept and design.

  • Baby Orangutan

    Baby Orangutan Build a robot, made easy.
    “The Baby Orangutan is a complete control solution for small robots, even smaller than the original Orangutan.
    “Orangutan is based on the ATmega8 microcontroller. The WinAVR package allows you to write C programs for the ATmega8.”. Price: $24.95.
    “You will still need two important items to get up and running:
    A programmer for the AVR microcontrollers:
    Atmel’s AVR ISP is a low-cost programmer that connects to a computer serial port.
    A power source: rechargeable batteries are generally the most practical.”.    		 iBOTZ MR-1004 Hydrazoid

    Left: the Baby Orangutan package (3 x 2 cm).
    Right: iBOTZ MR-1004 Hydrazoid©.
    “This sound-sensing robot walks on four legs and sports fiber-optic eye stalks.”. (Pololu Corporation)

  • Planet Sinclair

    Planet Sinclair, by Chris Owen.

    The Web’s biggest Sinclair-related archive:

    Executive Calculator
    “…The Sinclair Executive was the world’s first pocket calculator.
    The advert described it as being “as thick as a cigarette packet”, reflecting Clive Sinclair’s stated belief that One must always bear a packet of cigarettes in mind as the ideal size.

    …battery life was only a few hours and the machine could be physically dangerous. If it was left on, the batteries had a nasty habit of exploding and blowing the machine to bits.”.

    C5 electric car
    “Possibly Sinclair’s most famous product (albeit for quite the wrong reasons).

    …Exactly a decade before the C5 fiasco, Sinclair was nearly brought down by another disastrous product: The Black Watch.”.