http://psipunk.com Futurism, future cars, future aviation, flying cars, watercrafts, future concepts Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:32:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A team of design students over at the Folkwang Universität have developed the Plug – a public charging station for electric vehicles. The product has been developed at the Volkswagen Design Center Potsdam and supports the rise in the number of electric vehicles and the current direction of the auto ... http://psipunk.com/plug-ev-charging-station-for-electric-vehicles/ All those who love to ride a bike to work always hope that somehow the gravity lowers and they can ease their legs a little bit. While gravity won’t lower in any case, industrial designers Hoyoung Lee, Youngwoo Park and Jungmin Park have come to the rescue. They have designed ... http://psipunk.com/flying-bike-concept-uses-magnetic-levitation-to-challenge-gravity/ Winner of the prestigious VACC competition, the “Hornet” by Liam Ferguson is a one-wheel superbike, which seems to be “up there in the clouds a bit.” Generating power from dual 74 hp (55 kW) in-wheel hydrogen fuel-cell six-phase Neodymium-Iron (Nd-Fe) electric motors to reach a top speed of 235 km/h, ... http://psipunk.com/hornet-gyroscopically-balanced-bike-by-liam-ferguson/ TRIGON is the brainchild of industrial designers Alexandros TH Katinis and Kim Katinis, who believe that the best possible way to reduce city traffic and pollution is to commute by vehicles that are small, agile and are powered by clean sources of fuel. These designers have come up with a ... http://psipunk.com/trigon-%e2%80%93-electric-single-seat-vehicle/ http://psipunk.com/concept-vehicle-by-georgi-tsvetanov/ Designed to provide an alternative to fueled cars, the “e-rs” by German designer Daniele Ferrazzano is an electric vehicle in the super sports car segment that extracts the best from cars and motorcycles. Running on three wheels, the electronic trike is capable of producing 420hp to reach from 0-100 km/h ... http://psipunk.com/electronic-trike-%e2%80%98e-rs%e2%80%99-by-daniele-ferrazzano/ VTOL Technologies is proposing an unmanned aerial vehicle that can take off vertically and maneuver around tops of buildings for security monitoring at the London Olympics. The single fixed-wing aircraft would be able to lift off the ground with four thrust vectoring ducted-fan units. http://psipunk.com/vtol-technologies-flying-wing-vtol-uav/ The Pandur Concept Vehicle doesn’t say much for technical details and specs, but from the looks of it alone you can tell that it was made with the future in mind. http://psipunk.com/pandur-concept-vehicle/ Polar expeditions put a heavy toll not only on the body of the visitors or researchers, but also on their vehicles. Intended toward polar expeditions, the “Expedition Truck” from Maarten Timmer Design studio, Rotterdam, is a heavy-duty (4×4) expedition vehicle designed with a relatively short wheelbase combined with large off-road ... http://psipunk.com/mtd-expedition-truck/ Some people think of doing that others haven’t thought of and some achieve it in meanwhile. This suits no batter than a New Zealand man, Rudy Heeman of Nelson, who has designed and built a machine that can fly and could be used as boat or land vehicle. This hovercraft took ... http://psipunk.com/flying-hovercraft-by-rudy-heeman/