‘Concepts’ Category

Rolls Royce in Turquoise

The rich have weird tastes – that much we know after maintaining a luxury blog for more then a couple of years – but must they destroy beauty even when it is delivered to them? Take a Rolls Royce for instance. The classy car is the very definition of high class ; unless you manage to get it painted in turquoise and then have the guts to flaunt it.
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Hyundai’s Blue 2 uses Hydrogen Fuel Cells for its fuel

The Blue 2 stands next-in-line as far as Hydrogen –powered fuel cars go and even though it’s a concept car, it reflects the mind of its makers Hyundai to good effect. The Blue 2 is actually an acronym for “Blue Squared”—quite symbolic of the merging of Hyundai’s eco-brand “Blue Drive” with “H2,” or hydrogen– and stands up to the challenge thrown by other alternative-fuel vehicles rolled out by Toyota and Honda.
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Fast and Furious: The Saline Bird Concept bike is here!

This is something that will keep the speed demons in for all their love for biking at breakneck speeds. Five students– Charles-Edouard Berche, Ugo Spagnolo, Adrien Fuinel, Frederic Dobbelstein and Jean-Philippe Paries—of the International School of Design in Valenciennes, France have come up with a superfast racing bike, the Saline Bird Concept, to show up for their final project assignment for 2010-11.
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Its Time to Drive the ‘Made in Germany’ Brain-Power !

What if your car reads your mind to drive around; takes you to your destination and parks itself alright without any hassles whatsoever. Recently, German researchers have turned this futuristic concept into reality.
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All-electric Vespa scooter may hit scenes by mid-2011

Piaggio, the renowned Italian scooter-maker is setting its sails up to come out with an all-electric Vespa scooter which will reportedly be out by mid-2011. It is believed that the germ of this Vespa model lies in the lukewarm success garnered by the MP3 Hybrid—Piaggio’s 3-wheeled hybrid scooter—in Europe.
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Hit by Mood Swings on a Ferrari Drive—No issues!

Intuitive car technologies are turning somewhat regular by the day, although they still remain exclusive to high-end cars and up-market clientele. Nevertheless, it is always fun to know about groundbreaking car technologies howsoever elusive they may appear to be, and this time around it’s the Ferrari that has come up with a technology that can line up a car’s controls in accordance with the driver’s mood and reactions.
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Look into GE’s Ingenious Video to know what’s Dynamic Hybrid Braking

Understanding dynamics can be much more appealing and perky if one goes about the business in a visually stimulated environment. And what better visual stimuli than an ingenious video tearing into the basics of dynamics, and breaking the concepts inside-out– right in front of your eyes. If you get what I mean, you will love General Electric’s ingenious video that brings out the nitty-gritty of hybrid dynamic breaking in the most eloquent manner.
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Eton and American Red Cross come together to create the safe and eco-friendly TurboDyne Series

Eton Corporation, a leading emergency preparedness company and creator of green-powered electronics has joined hands with American Red Cross to introduce the TurboDyne Series- a new line of self-preparedness products. The best part about these roadside assistance products is that they are completely eco-friendly. And more than just being ‘green’ these products boast of a very stylish appearance.
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