Because you’re not the unhinged designer of solutions for problems that don’t exist, Matt Benedetto.
Category Archives: Design
Behold: the SKAI zero emissions aircraft – a hydrogen-fuel cell powered electric, six-rotor VTOL with a 640km range (and a built-in airframe parachute).
Piloted either remotely, in person (from the plush leather appointed interior) or autonomously, the relative simplicity of its design means that the price point (yet to be announced as, despite the hype, the vehicle is still in development) will probably be somewhere in the region of a luxury car.
Behold: LEGO’s biggest (but not most complex) set to date – a 4,784 piece model of the Imperial Star Destroyer. 110cm long by 94cm wide with swiveling guns, tilting radar dish, and a scale model of the Rebels’ Tantive IV.
Available next month for €700.
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Behold: the Lamborghini Sián Coupe (or a reasonable facsimile thereof). The name means ‘flash’ or ‘lightning’ in Bolognese dialect – a reference to the elemental power of its 819bhp V12 power plant, 2.8s 0-100km/h acceleration time and 350km/h top speed.
Given such earth-scorching stats, it seems churlish to mention that the Sián is also a ‘hybrid’ vehicle with a 34bhp electric motor for parking and reverse.
Only 63 will be made (a nod to the founding year of Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A.) and every last one of them has been spoken for.
No, not stills from a Wes Anderson movie.
Rather, the retro Kegelbahnen of Southern Germany – largely untouched and mostly located in the basements of traditional restaurants – documented by Robert Götzfried who sez of them:
“Kegeln is pretty similar to bowling but with only nine pins, smaller balls, and shorter lanes. It used to be a big thing in Germany in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. These days this sport is not ‘en vogue’ anymore and it seems that mostly older people go these ‘Kegelbahnen.’ ”
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Behold: the Untitled Zero XP – a revamp of the high performance 82kW Zero SR/F electric motorcycle by UK bike modifier Untitled.
Recreated as a ‘vision of the future of motorcycles’, the seat shell, nose, bellypan, and fork brackets have all been replaced by custom 6061 aluminium and polymer panels with a ’ghost grey’ paint job enhancing its moody, futuristic élan as you accelerate Tron-like from 0 to 200km/h without changing gears. But only in your mind.
Price: tbc.
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Behold: the Mokka KL50 – an all electric remake of a 1978 Garelli KL50 two-stroke motorcycle.
Stripped down and rebuilt by the Budapest-based manufacturer with a 5kW brushless motor powered by Sony lithium ion batteries (good for 40km between charges), the fuel tank now houses the electronics and control systems.
Price: tbc.
