Creating something unusual and pioneering in the opulent yacht design world appears to be a tough job. However, the new Bairim magnificent concept yacht by Timon Sager stays unique from other yacht designs. The elegant lines of the Bairim yacht are certainly sound enough to make the affluent crave for one. This luxury yacht features a no-resistance design, which has been hydro-dynamically optimized for it to move fast via rough waters. It features a stairwaybehind the yacht for trouble-free access both in and out of the water. State-of-the-art comfort features together with floor-to-ceiling windows over the port and starboard sides improve the stunning and polishedinterior of Bairim. The graceful wooden deck opens up to the interior with the center stairway leading you towards the water. Bairim is a dazing submarine designed to move quite fast in rough waters.

Designer : Timon Sager

Monster Jumbo Could Be The Largest Airplane In The World

To answer the needs of larger, more fuel efficient, and more silent airplane, Phil Pauley has designed Monster Jumbo Aircraft. This Quad Deck Monster Jumbo concept has been designed to transport more people to further destinations with sustainability and environmental consideration in mind. If this design went into production, it would be the largest airplane in the world, capable of transporting 1,500 people half way around the world without the need for refuel. Identified by many as being similar in many ways to the “Hughes H-4 Hercules”, this Monster Jumbo is set for the record books if it receives suitable public and private support.

Designer : Philip Pauley

Watch Movies at Campsites with Portable Camping Projector

Projector is a lightweight, handy screen that has been designed primarily for outdoor use, especially to rid the boredom. This portable camping projector can be set outdoors for watching films at campsites. While the portable screen is held to the frame with 4 separable parts of lens cap, the supporting frame is built with 4 alpenstocks that can be used while hiking. The projector features a shock-absorbing, crimped rubber surround that nestles amid the 4 alpenstocks. To offer ease in handling, the number of components has been reduced to a minimum number. It serves a great purpose for campers to counter the boredom at camping sites.

Designer : Wang Yan

TriMove

I get it- the hubless wheel has yet to reach its full technical potential, but set aside your speculation for just a moment to admire this striking trike concept. Most three 3-wheelers combine the worst of motorcycles & cars: no leaning into corners, exposure to the elements, & no lane splitting- but the narrow, tilting 3-wheeled TriMove has all the agility & aerodynamic styling you’d expect from a fierce motorbike. It’s triangle footprint provides balance even when it’s not moving. And the three disc braking system means it requires far less braking space, making for an exceptionally fool-proof bike that doesn’t sacrifice style.

Designer: Mohammad Ghezel

Recharge Yourself and Your Electronics with KVA's Solar-Powered "SOFT Rockers"

Photos courtesy of Phil Seaton, Living Photo

MIT Professor Sheila Kennedy and her team at Kennedy and Violich Architecture recently debuted "SOFT Rockers" as part of MIT's 150th-anniversary Festival of Art+Science+Technology (FAST) celebration. The team arrived at a sleek, solar-powered energy recharging station, disguised as a comely piece of public furniture, as a response to "'hard' urban infrastructure."

Full specs after the jump...

The SOFT Rocker leverages its environment in a dynamic manner by using the human power of balance to create an interactive 1.5 axis 35 watt solar tracking system. Soft power electronics designed for this project charge the 12 ampere-hour battery and store solar energy harvested during the day. Put your body weight in play with an interactive, real time energy harvesting feedback loop that senses how you orient the rocker to the sun. Charge or run any USB device from speakers to cell phones and bring your friends to enjoy cool lighting loops at night for social gatherings.

The leaf-like loop form of the SOFT Rockers explores how standard softwood panels can be mass-customized to adapt to the latitude and sun angle of any site using parametric design software and automated fabrication with a lightweight Kuka robotic arm. The SOFT Rocker combines hi-tech and low-tech design strategies: it produces electricity but engages the body and works like furniture "by hand"; it mixes sun tracking and social dynamics; it is a site specific object and a flexible form family of 'soft' wood construction. The SOFT Rocker blurs distinctions between pleasure and work and recasts power generation as an integrated and distributed public activity rather than a centralized, singular off-site project of 'engineering.'

Professor Kennedy explains the piece in a (unembeddable) video on"SOFT Rockers'" MIT page, in which she limns the various challenges that the team sought to address. Regarding the final form, she mentions TRON, the obvious reference point; personally, I think it looks like a speech bubble... insert joke about "SOFT Rockers" as a design 'statement.'

Must-See Footage of VW's Insane "Transparent Factory"

I never wanted to work at a factory, until I saw this place.

This is footage of Volkswagen's "Transparent Factory" in Dresden that I somehow missed the first time around, and folks, this place is mind-blowing.

You've never seen efficiency and technology like this. The parts are delivered via mass transit and delivered to the production floor by robots. The floor is beautiful Canadian maple, and yet it delivers electricity cordlessly to rolling workstations via induction. The power tools used by the workers count how many bolts they've installed, so you know exactly where you are in the build. Individual cranes suspend the cars at the appropriate height and angle relative to the height of the worker. It's so safe that car buyers themselves can freaking hop on the assembly line and help build the cars.

Gregoire de Lafforest's "Clock Agnan"

I'm loving Gregoire de Lafforest's "Clock Agnan," which uses illegibly tiny numbers and magnifying glasses to indicate the time.

Sadly the website of Lafforest, who has been making the blog rounds recently for his "Felix" Lamp, is as minimal as his clock; all we know is the guy's a Paris-based designer and interior architect.