Sky cars…Flying cars…and other such futuristic automobiles is a reason enough for us to appreciate the hard efforts made by design firms. After featuring the Pal-V Flying Car that looked more like a motorbike; the M400 Skycar concept from Moller is a four-seat flying car that is all set to ride on skies within three years time from now. The company claims that the M400 Skycar is the first viable, budgeted vertical take off and landing vehicle. It shuns your worry of cursing the traffic light that turns red every second you reach near it as there is not even a remote possibility of someone coming from the opposite direction.

The M400 Skycar engine is accessible and adaptable enough to burn an extensive array of fuels i.e. diesel to natural gas, allowing you refuel it irrespective of your location. Whilst running on normal petrol, the coupe can ride over 20 mpg, adequate to park your car and drive it to and from your start-up point but once in air is able to speed up to three times faster than any light airplane.

It also features a storage space inside the cabin for your grocery stuff. It is being said that it would hit the market at an anticipated price of £250,000 but if a measured demand is witnessed leading to mass production then it would cost £30,000- £40,000.

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The ongoing Japan’s aging society has witnessed a surge in number of funerals with every passing day, which poses a handicap before the restricted space options. This has led to the evolution of creative alternatives; hence generating a god deal of death business here in Japan. Earlier, we introduced you to the multimedia tombstones unveiled in Japan and then considering the dearth of space, the available room costs about $20,000.

It was then Japanese nationals woke up to calculate a way to deal with the problem following a technological twist. Therefore, Nichiryoku identified an interactive family plot that fuses expertise with the customary. It stores the cremated remains of your loved ones in a personal sealed box that is kept in a secretive vault. As per your requirement, you can access the box and scan an RFID card that directs the system to fetch up your box and rest it in the entreaty area.

Jump over to experience the first-hand view of videos, packed with voices beyond the grave. Apologies for not translating the video but for sure visuals would convey the idea. The top one depicts woman visiting her father (speaking from beyond the grave) who is amazed that she came.

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Literally speaking refrigerators has no exclusivity if they restrict their persona to their customary cooling effect. I always wonder if manufacturers can take a step ahead by accommodating draught beer system or would have masked corner for secret office drink parties. And to mu much anticipation, the Sub-Zero models comes laden with power-packed features and their novel offering exemplifies that. The incorporated NASA designed filtration system refills the air every 20 minutes after purging bacteria, whiffs, and infinitesimal contaminants.

It is a clear indication that food will stay fresher for a longer period of time, thereby erasing the possibility of your fridge producing foul smell. The integrated fridge series is anticipated to hit the market soon in a variety of forms. Well, we don’t have any information about its pricing.

Check the video below:

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With the surging need for water and comparatively less supply or more wastage, it is now posing a question to our existence. It is the sole thing that helps us rehydrate and disinfect our self. And I feel pity for areas facing the water scarcity that makes them compromise to their routine schedule. Having realized this; the Aquaduct Mobile Filtration Vehicle concept is being devised by designers David Janssens, John Lai, Adam Mack, Brian Mason, Eleanor Morgan and Paul Silberschatz. The mobile concept comes outfitted with a large tank along with a smaller one called the clean tank. The functionality of the concept details from haulage, filtration and storage of water for use in the developing era. While peddling, the pump connected to the knob will pull water from the large water tank (passing through the filter) and lastly to the clean tank.

This procedure can be practiced whilst wandering and also when you are on hold. The clutch within employs and then unfastens the drive belt from pedal crank, enabling the rider to carry on with sieving process. So, are you set to ride over this feature-packed potential concept?

Check out this video:

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Alright, the catchy headline might seem a big vague as in terms of functionality it’s not a Matrix Unplugged chair and rather is nuclear powered. They say that the industrial finish of the chair comes from the torpedo lifting jaws of an actual nuclear powered nautical. Actually the torpedo lifting apparatus itself was an archetype that was not at all used or bulk-produced and it is this feature only that makes the chair, an elite creation with a difference. Designed and developed by Zoran Milivojevic, an artist and machinist, the chair sports working mechanical hydraulics used for regulating chair’s location and ergonomics.

And if its orange appeal is not of your kinds, then Zoran is all yours to customize the shade along with leather padding. Priced surprisingly at a fatty figure of $37,000, I am sure limited-edition tag is missing from the specks disclosed.

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After a wearisome day at work, a dose of massage is something that can soothe us. Available in various forms staring from mechanical to water based, Medy Jet is geared up to offer fully functional massage beds. Medy Jets production of Hydro Therapy Massage Bed is the result of several years of experience with underwater massage systems. This self-contained, user operated unit provides the collective settlement of hydro massage, heat and flotation therapy without getting soaked. The water crammed bed is thermostatically monitored and the “water through water” jets located within target key weight clusters.

The bed enables you select the strength, period and kind of massage from the touch screen. Various forms of massage accessible via this bed details from crescent massage, rotating massage, pinpointed massage, mirror-imaged massage with permanent or pulsating pressure and synchronized or non synchronized jet on either side of the body. It allows you to choose from the preprogrammed ordinary healing for upper body, lower body, lower back region, shoulder region, sectional massage or the whole body and to wrap up with the program offering a gentle rub down along the spine.

Designed and developed to give relaxation to your mind, body and soul; the bed features selectable treatment areas, independently programmable and pre-programmable massage chip cards, countdown pointer viewing left-out time for the running treatment, incorporate cooling system, hygienic surface, low height allowing easier escalating and descending. Accessible via TPS (Twin-Pump-System), it sports supporting bar, convenient plug and play system and comes layered with blue-black mat coverings. With no word on pricing, I am sure it would demand the deserving four figures.

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The fruition of Sanyo Xacti HDTV tapeless camcorders compensates from intellectual design and appeal with the DMX-HD800, whose manufacturer believes it seizes a “huge leap in image quality” over its precursor that got unveiled last October. You may find it as an exaggeration at our end but being fans of Sanyo’s Xacti 720p camcorders, we can’t help adoring its quality-performance and expedient flash memory-based HDTV execution for a realistic price. The featured above model sports 5x zoom, 8-megapixel imager, face tracking plus a 2.7-inch LCD view screen. Planned to be shipped in Japan on 22 August, it can be seen as a budgeted deal for $468.

Point is it would bring a revolution in the mindset and performance of all random camera companies that believe that an HD camcorder should cost twofold and will be constrained to pursue suit.

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If you thought that you will reach the apex of the TV resolution peak after attaining that bitching novel 50 inch 1080p screen installed in your crib, then I would suggest you to rethink. Hailing from England’s Meridian, the latest offering of 810 Reference projection system redefines your experience of throwing wheelbarrows stocked with dough pointing to a problem. The 810 Reference Video System flaunts 4096×2400 resolution (10 megapixels) and is capable to offer quality images even on the most gigantic screen.

It features a video scaler accessible on a technology known as Qdeo, coming from a company called Marvell. Excuse me…its’ not Marvel but double ‘L.’ I am sure that comes equipped with real super heroic scaling power as linking to the projector requires no less than 4 HDMI cables. Silent in functionality, the 810 Reference Video System is anticipated to hit the market by this fall holding a price tag of $185,000.

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Ages have passed and we have been living with a hidden belief that we should discard those disturbing arched CRT screens and TVs, but Microsoft (being a mogul) has a different viewpoint this. Having unveiled fancy Surface touchscreen table; the mastermind now wishes that it’s time to move back to curved displays sporting complete 360-degrees of imagery. Featured after the jump (video running above) is a Surface Sphere prototype, a colossal ball that is accessible via company’s Surface technology but applicable this time on a globular interface and display. Comparatively advanced technology and hardware is required to run the Sphere as idea is to warp the pictures along with the interface so that it offers quality visibility when projected onto a dome.

As a ploy, there is a possibility that these cool applications may have potential to develop an interactive globe (as functional in the running video above), hence putting you across various permutations to device 360-degree videos and panoramas.

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