Daily Archives: Aug 20, 2009

If you ride a fixed gear, watch this and weep!

With the growing trend in bicycle culture, and especially fixed gear culture it seems that you just can’t escape the millions of different videos online of people doing tricks, skids, riding fast, and weaving through traffic. This video is totally different… firstly, these girls look like they are still in middle school, they are [...]

Shopcarts + Bikes = the New Motor Home?

It seems everyone these days is obsessed with sustainability from cars to homes, you see it everywhere. Kevin Cyr, an artist based in Brooklyn, has come up with an idea for a mobile home that takes sustainability and mobility to a whole new level!

Instead of your home being mobile via gasoline, he’s put a camper-like [...]

American Classic with a German Twist

Talk about blending the best of both worlds.
German auto-tuner Geiger recently upped its ante by taking a fully stocked Chevy Camaro SS and adding a supercharger and custom exhaust to its 6.2-liter V8 to boost the output up from  432 horsepower to 568 ponies, rendering the car not only massively superior to any stock model, [...]

The Most Anticipated Movie…Ever?

James Cameron is that dude.
You know, the one who has an idea and then spends the next ten years refining it until technology catches up with his vision. After all, he’s the guy who redefined not only the action blockbuster with films like Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but also made the highest grossing [...]

iPod Slide

The classic iPod design has been standard for so long that even Apple calls the original iPod the iPod Classic. The iPod Slide concept updates the iPod classic while keeping all of the device’s classic elements in tact.
The most amazing feature of this device is it can be controlled by thermal sensors, which would be [...]

Porsche Panamera

Porsche design chief Michael Mauer explained that, unlike most cars on the market today, he hand-sculpted the Panamera. “The surface treatment of Porsche is hard to do on the computer, because the surface is concave. I need a physical clay model,” Mauer said. “The car is wide and low, which is perfect for design. We [...]

Eco Friendly… Unders?

Yves Behar x Pact Underwear
Partnering with designer and futurist Yves Behar, the brand refashions how people perceive apparel in the 21st century by considering every aspect of bringing their product to market through a socially conscious lens.

Coveredwith graphics inspired by the missions of three different nonprofits -826 National, Forest Ethics and Oceana—10% of Pact’s sales [...]

Pictureplane

I am mad late to the Pictureplane write up but shit man I got a life and I don’t get Travis’s PR blitz’s.  Pictureplane is a one man party from Denver CO. who was born under the name Travis Egedy.  He makes indie/industrial/sampled/dance music for the street.   His new record Dark [...]

True Turntable Stories

With DJ Hero hitting store shelves soon and anticipation growing for the title, it looks like DJing may once again be at an all time high. But before you run out to the local Guitar Center and drop a few Gs to get your Mixmaster Mike on, check out these clips [...]

Tesla Drops New “Green” Machine

Right now, you’re looking at the future.
No, not the dystopian future that was outlined in Blade Runner or the human absent version depicted in Wall-E. The Lotus-inspired car above is the Tesla Roadster Sport and while it looks like many of the sportier high-end coupes on the road, it’s what it’s missing that makes it [...]