A 1980 Ferrari 308 GTSi once owned by jazz legend Miles Davis.
With just over 9,500 miles on the clock, it sold at auction last week for a mere €78,000.
So what, sez you.
Category Archives: Design
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Behold: the SolarImpact Electric Yacht – a 25m twin-hulled cruiser powered by two 500kW engines fed entirely by roof mounted solar panels and a battery array.
Capable of 22 knots with AI guidance systems that allow the vessel to be controlled by a single person. Possibly you.
Price on application but if you’re asking, you’re not buying.
Popular movies as if made in an alternate, but entirely plausible universe by illustrator Tom Stults.
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Behold: the Küschall Superstar – the world’s lightest wheelchair. Fully adjustable seating, built in LED lighting and a space age ultralight graphene frame designed to maximise propulsion and limit the upper body injuries common among wheelchair users, particularly athletes.
Currently in pilot phase but due for release in 2020.
An ingenious creation by amateur engineer Human Controller – a robotised Rubik’s Cube that can solve itself in minutes, whether held in the hand or tumbling over a flat surface.
Geek off on the internal gubbins here.
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Behold: the Ford F-Vision concept – a prototype take on the future of electric semi-trucks unveiled at the IAA Commercial Vehicle Show in Germany this month.
In ‘self-drive’ mode, the wraparound windscreen blends back into the streamlined bodywork – a feature, claims Ford, inspired by the ‘adaptive abilities of Marvel superheroes’, thereby earning itself an atomic wedgie.
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A full body three-toed sloth suit designed by Karoline Hinz.
Halloween winner. Competition closed.
Sunnuhlio Tiny Houses: overlooking the Eyjafjördur fjord near Akureyri in Iceland – three cosy, if minimalist cabins with kitchenette, dining area and sleeping loft near to bird watching trails, an art museum and a village with pool and beach.
Spartan, bracing, chilly out.
Each available for €163 a night.
The natural landscape of Argentina – skillfully expressed in the medium of tactile rugs by textile artist Alexandra Kehayoglou, with little politics and ecology woven in.
Previously: Rugged Terrain