Future Solar Concept Tent by Orange

Earlier this week, telecom company Orange unveiled their future tent concept. The "Glastonbury Solar Concept Tent" will utilize cutting edge eco-energy technology to make sure that your essential camping gadgets never run out of power. How? The Concept Tent’s solar shell uses photovoltaic fabric technology on it's three directional glides which can be moved throughout the day to maximize its solar efficiency and capturing the optimum amount of energy.

There will be a central wireless control hub which displays energy generated and consumed as well as providing a wireless Internet signal; all information is displayed on a flexible, touchscreen LCD display screen. Also there will be an internal heating element embedded within the tent’s groundsheet, which is triggered automatically once the interior temperature falls below a set level. It will also be controlled by the central control hub.

The Concept Tent would be fitted with innovative "glo-cation" technology to help campers find their tents. Glo-cation works by enabling campers’ mobile phones to identify their tent using either an SMS message or automatic active RFID technology (a longer range version of that used in London Underground Oyster cards); both would trigger a distinctive glow in the tent helping identify it from a distance.

The Concept Tent has been designed in association with American product design consultancy Kaleidoscope and builds on learnings from the original Orange Solar Tent that was tested at Glastonbury in 2003, as well as 2004’s Orange Text Me Home Dome.

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'Muska' Supercar Concept (8 Photos)

Love cars? Take a look at the car in the picture above. This is the latest creation of Russian car designer Krasnov Igor. Called the 'Muska', this concept supercar sports a stylish look. Though, some styling elements are taken from different car manufacturers, it looks unique and real. Isn't it? Take a look at some more renderings of Muska.

 

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'Lilypad' City by Vincent Callebaut

In future, change in climate and increase in ocean level will create havoc in many parts of the world. To deal with water rising and worldwide ecological crisis, architect Vincent Callebaut has designed a floating Ecopolis called "Lilypad".  Lilypad is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants. Take a look at these pictures of the original concept.

Inspired of the highly ribbed leave of the great lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia, Lilypad is a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city with double objective not only to widen sustainability in offshore the territories of the most developed countries but above all to grant the housing of future climatic refugees.

Lilypad is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters. This artificial lagoon is entirely immersed ballasting thus the city. It enables to live in the heart of the subaquatic depths. The multifunctional programming is based on three marinas and three mountains dedicated respectively to the work, the shops and the entertainments. The whole set is covered by a stratum of planted housing in suspended gardens and crossed by a network of streets and alleyways with organic outline.

In this way, the goal of Lilypad is to create a harmonious coexistence of the couple Human / Nature and to explore new modes of living the sea by building with fluidity collective spaces in proximity, overwhelming spaces of social inclusion suitable to the meeting of all the inhabitants – denizen or foreign-born, recent or old, young or aged people.

via: Vincent Callebaut http://www.vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-lilypad.html

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Doorbell Concept with Visitor Stats Display

In near future our homes will have more high-tech equipments than ever. Need some inspiration for your high-tech home? Take a look at the picture. A doorbell concept with built in home visitor stats! Just like ordinary web site visitor stats, it will display month, total visitors, unique visitors, average time spent, average visitor age and even average visitor weight! Sounds weird but it is not impossible, when we will have high-end sensors and digital personal identification system in future. What you say?

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