Taxi Tokyo - Future Taxi

Taxi Tokyo is a design concept created by Norwegian designer Eva Marit Toftum. The taxi concept is designed to respond to the increasing amount of vehicle on the road. The new taxi would feature a driving cab, towing a series of passenger cars behind. The system would work by having the passenger units spread throughout the city. Passengers would get into the units and set their destination. The driving unit would come by and pick their car up along with a number of others and take each person to their destination. The design minimizes the number of vehicles on the road, sharing load by bundling the cars together. While traveling may take longer, the effect of reducing taxis on the roads would speed up traffic as a whole.

Minimodal - Future Taxi

The Minimodal is a taxi design concept designed specifically for the city of new york. The vehicle features a very unusual design that is small and light and uses a hybrid-power system. The two-person passenger cab is low to the ground and features side windows and a fully open skylight. The driver sits in front of an all glass front end and on top of the hybrid engine. The car would also have a signaling system that would let other drivers know when a passenger was coming out to avoid collisions. The designers at hybrid product design also envisioned two larger versions of the taxi to accommodate more passengers. The Maximodal would seat 3 and a wheelchair and the Mogulmodal would seat four plus a wheelchair.

American International Toy Fair 2010

The American International Toy Fair begins Sunday. This is the annual event where toy makers show off new offerings that will make their way into next year's stockings. Previews from toymakers and interviews with analysts make clear that the focus is on innovation and price. Few toys will retail for more than $100, and most will be priced below $30.


Drip Drops


Lego of Harry Potter


Sing-a-ma-jigs


WWE's Triple H action figure


Puppy Tweets


Bioloid Robots


Beanie Boo's Tangerine


Zhu Zhu (Toys of 2009)


Green Toys


Robotic Hexbugs


Motorized Bubble Light


Rubik's Slide


Ugly Doll

Fotoset of Honda 3R-C

Geneva concept reveals Honda 3R-C three-wheelers, an idea for the future of environmentally friendly commuting.

Mutation1 Future Concept Car

This automobile design was based on a flying fish which was good at flying and swimming. General amphibious automobile has four wheels in the land.


Mutation1 is designed by Jongpil Shin.

Vesna Future Concept Car

A quick and simple production process with fewer parts and fewer different materials provides ample opportunity for a modular exterior for VESNA. It is possible to use materials of different colors or to arrange the wiring in different ways to create the effect of natural materials: stone, amber, plants, and others.


Vesna is designed by Kristina Magnitskaya.

Switch Future Concept Car

A perfect collaboration of car and motorbike, the SWITCH has the capability of morphing between each, via fully electrically driven components, extending both the armature and front wheel apart whilst lowering the passenger compartment.


Switch is designed by Harry West Henriksen.

The Yog Future Concept Car

The name, the form and posture is inspired from YOGA (it’s a method practiced in India to join the individual self with the Divine, Universal Spirit through Physical and mental exercises).



Designed by Arun Thomas

2028 One Future Concept Car

A car designed for future metropolis, where space is the most important thing. This car is an alternative for transportion for the future, it’s a one person car, that could be used to go to work, or the school, or to travel alone trough the city. The car is only two wheels, and is based on the segway mechanism, so it´s very light and clean


Designed by Sergio Luna

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* iMO Future Concept Car

MINILUX Future Concept Car

MINILUX is a concept vehicle targeted for urban dwellers that use their own car mainly for leisure purposes and rely on other forms of transport in their daily mobility. Due to its nature as a leisure vehicle it spends long periods of time unused. When parked outside, the vehicle uses high-efficiency photovoltaic panels to restore solar energy.



Designed by Jukka Rautiainen.

Recommended reading:
* iMO Future Concept Car

Scarab Future Concept Car

The vehicle allows users to have freedom of use much like a motorcycle but with the convenience of having an enclosed private space and luggage compartments.


Designed by David Gonçalves.

Recommended reading:
* iMO Future Concept Car

iMO Future Concept Car

iMo is a robotic car based on the Apple philosophy which consists of applying a process of elimination to come up with simple and elegant solutions, by means of cutting-edge technology. iMo has been designed as a solution for saturated cities. Designed by Anthony Jannarelly.


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* World's most expensive and exotic cars

World's most expensive and exotic cars

For all of those new lottery winners out there (and those of us who dream of being in that position themselves), here's a shopping guide to the world's 10 most expensive production and exotic cars. Prices given are best estimates. On all but the Rolls and the Bentley you'll have to pay additional import and luxury taxes.


Bentley Mulsanne -More than $700,000

Bentley's current range-topper in Australia is the two-door Azure convertible, which costs about $750,000. You get a 6.8-litre V8 engine and all the luxury trimmings.

2009 Rolls-Royce Ghost -About $1.3 million

What discussion of fantasy wheels would be complete without reference to a Rolls Royce? The lidless Phantom uses a V12 engine measuring 6.8 litres. It needs the power such a massive engine can generate because it weighs about 2.6 tonnes.

2009 Lamborghini Reventon Roadster -About $1.6 million

If you thought a Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster at almost $870,000 was a dollar sign too far, then you aren't going to like the Reventon Roadster.

2008 Koenigsegg CCXR Edition -About $2.3 million

Trust those crazy Swedes to come up with something that's fast and green.

Maybach 62 Landaulet -About $1.5 million

Back in the 1920 and '30s, the Landaulet body style was popular with the rich set. You basically took a car and chopped off the rear section of the roof. That way, James the chauffer got a roof over his head while the duchess in the back could choose either roof up or roof down.

Aston Martin One-77 -About $2.4 million

No Aston Martin is what you'd call cheap but the One-77 takes the idea of conspicuous consumption to the next level. It's widely regarded as the world's most expensive production car, a title it stole from the Bugatti Veyron (see below) by upping the ante in terms of driving technology.

Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition -About $1.8 million

We're still not sure this is fair dinkum but a Russian company named Dartz has announced plans to launch a super-luxury, armoured SUV aimed at, er, colourful racing identities the world over.

SSC Ultimate Aero -About $720,000

It's difficult to imagine that a company that started out building kits to turn your Pontiac Fiero (a horrid little pseudo sports car) into a Ferrari replica could also come up with the Ultimate Aero. But that's what happened when US-based SSC (Shelby Supercars Company) got serious a couple of years ago.

2009 Pagani Zonda Cinque -Between $1.6 million and $1.7 million

Pagani is a niche Italian sports-car manufacturer, so you'd think its Zonda production car would be exclusive enough.

Bentley Azure -More than $700,000

Bentley's current range-topper in Australia is the two-door Azure convertible, which costs about $750,000. You get a 6.8-litre V8 engine and all the luxury trimmings.

Foto set of the World's Most Beautiful Bridges

Foto set of the World's Most Beautiful Bridges


At 62 feet taller than the Eiffel Tower, the 1,125-foot Millau Viaduct in France is the tallest bridge of its kind in the world. (Courtesy ATOUT France)


The Millau Viaduct is a cable-stayed, masted structure that spans a mile and a half between two plateaus in the Tarn Valley of southern France. (Courtesy ATOUT France)


Located in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, Khaju Bridge is a two-level brick-and-stone pedestrian bridge that has been a meeting point for locals for more than 350 years. The 435-foot-long, low-lying Khaju is highlighted by 23 Islamic arches. (Michele Falzone/JAI/Corbis)


Drive this graceful five-and-a-half-mile stretch of concrete bridges in Norway, and you'll quickly see why the Atlantic Road was voted the country's Construction of the Century. Connecting small islands, the eight successive bridges twist and swell in mind-boggling fashion. (Courtesy Seansie/Flickr)


Henderson Waves is Singapore's tallest pedestrian bridge at 12 stories high. It snakes across Henderson Road, connecting Mount Faber Park and Telok Blangah Hill Park. (Courtesy Urban Redevelopment Authority)


Singapore's Henderson Waves is 900 feet of undulating steel and wood, with seven crests in all. The bridge won the prestigious President's Design Award in 2009. (Courtesy Urban Redevelopment Authority)


Navajo Bridge is a spandrel arch bridge in Arizona's Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 467 feet above Marble Canyon and the Colorado River. Traffic became too much for the original, so a new, nearly identical bridge was opened in 1995, and the older bridge became pedestrian-only. (Mark Karrass/Corbis)


The 18th-century Iron Bridge in the West Midlands region of central England was the first arched bridge to be built of cast iron. The designer, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, had no precedent to go on, so he based the design on carpentry techniques. (Courtesy Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust)


The 16th-century "Old Bridge," or Stari Most, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was rebuilt in 2004 from its own rubble. Do like the locals have been doing for centuries and take a 66-foot dive from its central arch into the Neretva River below. (Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters/Corbis)


Without the Opera House in the background, Sydney's Harbour Bridge isn't as recognizable. But the steel-arch bridge is the tallest of its kind, at 440 feet. (Courtesy Nick Rains/Tourism Australia)


Called "the coathanger" by locals, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's iconic symbols, along with the Opera House. (Courtesy Ian Lever/Tourism Australia)


Referred to as a "thirty-five million dollar steel harp" by the San Francisco Chronicle on the day it opened, the 4,200-foot-long Golden Gate Bridge is the second longest bridge of its kind in the U.S. (Courtesy shannendee/myBudgetTravel)


Opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City's beloved 6,016-foot suspension bridge over the East River, shown here with the 2008 art installation Waterfalls, is one of the world's greatest bridges. (Courtesy ayc214/myBudgetTravel)


The secret ingredient in the majestic Charles Bridge in Prague, which has endured numerous wars and floods over the past six centuries, is eggs. Seriously—it is believed that eggs were mixed into the mortar to strengthen it during construction in the 1300s. (Courtesy iLoveButter/Flickr)


This gorgeous ramshackle of a bridge over the Arno River in Florence housed butcher shops and fishmongers until 1593. Today, tourists can stroll the Ponte Vecchio's elegant span while shopping for jewelry. (Image Source/Corbis)