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Best damn Akira bike

david — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:00:14 +0000

Easily the best replica of Shotaro’s bike from Akira, Masahi Teshim painstakingly built this one over the course of seven years. This replica is apparently the only bike that has the official blessing of Akira’s creator Katsuhiro Otomo, I would hope so since the owner spent nearly $120,000 on it. Masashi is currently riding the bike around Japan to raise money for children’s autism, afterwards it will be on display to help raise money for victims from last years earthquake.

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Source: Geekologie

BMW’s Thermaltake Level 10 M mouse

david — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:44:42 +0000

When not designing crazy cars, German brand BMW lends its designing ability to computer parts manufacture Thermaltake. The last time the two worked together they created the modular Level 10 PC case, this time they created the Level 10 M gaming mouse.

Wheel chair drifting

david — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:46:06 +0000

Being confined to a powered wheel chair didn’t stop this kid from fulfilling his need for drifting. With the help of some wet floors this kid barrelled through a through a long straight and drifted around a “caution wet floor” sign. Not giving a shit! Badass

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Nissan’s self healing iPhone case

david — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:42:06 +0000

In a bizarre move, Nissan has released an iPhone case coated in their magical self-healing paint. Nissan has used this paint on their vehicles since 2004 and it’s extremely practical with all the road debris people face. The iPhone case is able to repair its scratches in less than an hour but I still can’t get over how tacky the thing looks with the Juke logo and Ministry of Sound logo (WTF).

Source: Engadget

Motorbike Gymkhana

david — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:01:59 +0000

Talk about talented, watch as Jorian Ponomareff pull off some of the craziest moves I’ve ever seen on a motorbike. Although this isn’t the first time I’ve posted something about drifting bikes, this is as close as it gets to gymkhana type maneuvers. Jorian definitely has balls of steel.

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Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs passes away

david — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:48:31 +0000

On October 5th Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple passed away. Just a day after Apple announced the new iPhone. Steve Jobs was one of the few CEO’s that I followed closely, it is rare that a CEO commanded respect, intimated peers and inspired so many other businesses. If you haven’t read about Steve Jobs past I highly recommend it.

Apple played an important role in my life since my earliest memories, during my grade 1 – grade 6 years me and my friend would play games on his Apple computer. Games like Damage Incorporated, Marathon, Doom, Duke Nukem, Warcraft 2 and Starcraft were some of the games we played. I also dabbled in graphic design playing around with Print Shop Pro.

Fast forward to my post secondary years, I saved up enough money to buy my laptop. I made a tough decision of buying either a Dell XPS 1530 or an Apple Macbook Pro. I decided on the Macbook Pro, at the time it was my most expensive investment towards my company’s future,
but years later I would find out it was the greatest business lesson I could learn.

I’ve quickly learned what made Apple, Apple. Well-designed products that not only worked well but also looked good doing it. It wasn’t just the product that caught my eye it was the customer experience. At that time I didn’t know of any other company that cared about their packaging like Apple, things like: how their box unopened, the design of the Styrofoam inserts, how the extra tidbits (instructions & cables) were packaged. I ended up replacing my Macbook Pro several times because of several issues and that’s where I experienced Apple’s superb service.

It is because of Apple I’ve been able to build my brand to where it is now. It was on this Macbook Pro that I designed Series 1, 2, 3, 4 collections and my Import Bible websites.

To me, Steve Jobs help invent the modern personal computer, change the way we think of them and show us how they can make our lives better with them.

Thank you for everything you have done, rest in peace.

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Too Baller: Porsche Design Shisha

david — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:12:59 +0000

Porsche Design is no stranger when it comes to over designing goods that don’t really need designing. Keeping with tradition Porsche Design has announced that they have designed a shisha made from aluminum, stainless steel and glass. If you don’t know what a shisha is used for, it is used to smoke flavored tobacco, where the smoke is cooled down by water at the bottom of the shisha.

Prius inspired bike, mind controlled shifting

david — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:00:45 +0000

I wouldn’t have imagined myself posting anything related to the Prius on my site but this minimalistic bike was just too cool to pass over. Toyota teamed up with Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Deeplocal, Parlee Cycles to make the PXP. How this bike was influenced by the Prius is beyond me but as you can see, the bike is very sleek but doesn’t look too different from current time trial bikes.

What’s different is the bike comes with a special helmet that reads your brain signals to see when you want to change gears. If that doesn’t work you can resort to shifting gears the normal way. The bike features subtle aerodynamic tweaks like brake lines inside the frame and an iPhone mount. Unfortunately the bike isn’t for sale and was built for design exploration.

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Source: Fast Co. Design

The Norton Project

david — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:24:04 +0000

Not exactly car related but here is a heart warming story where two sons decided to restore their fathers 1969 Norton Commando from under his nose and had it fully restored from him just in time for Christmas. Luckily for us, the pair of brothers video tape the entire process from start to finish.

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Trim your lawn with Lamborghini tools

david — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:52:03 +0000

Exotic manufactures such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Porsche are known to produce goods not related to the automotive world. While most tend to focus on goods such as clothing and computers, Lamborghini took a different route and created gardening tools. Seems like a left field move to me, but I guess it isn’t a surprise since Lamborghini originally made tractors. Lamborghini has created various tools you might need: grass trimmers, hedge trimmers and chainsaws. You might expect these products to carry a hefty price tag because of the branding but these tools are priced between 50 – 150 pounds each. Not bad. Purchase these fine tools at Tonino Lamborghini Garden Tools site.