Yamaha Deus Ex Machina Concept Motorcycle designed by Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak. It looks really cool! This concept bike likes a stand robot. The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of 7 artificial vertebrae.
2007 marks the first time in history that the world’s population is predominantly urban. This global shift has significantly impacted upon developing economies in particular as traditional sectors such as agriculture yield to rapid industrialisation resulting in dramatically reduced levels of food security for the urban poor.
Project Eden is an agricultural system facilitating intensive cultivation of plant-crops in the rapidly expanding and increasingly dense urban areas of developing countries. It is derived from an advanced growing technique that has been re-engineered to address the specific needs of subsistence farmers while also constituting an entrepreneurial business opportunity for urban residents.
The Obie Lounge is a low back seating unit that is modular and multifunctional. The Obie lounge is an interactive multifunctional couch that encourages the user engagement. It can be used indoors or outdoors and as it is a modular unit it can go into a variety of different positions- two singular seating units, a mattress on the floor as a bed, or to be pushed together to create a double or triple seating unit. There is storage space in backrest for pillows and/or cushions. The cushions can be used as armrests or for upper back support.
The Obie Lounge is the Curtin University of technology’s student design.
