Friday, June 29, 2007

Basic Utility Vehicle Competition


A guy called Simon at the Transport Research Labratory (TRL) put me onto this project. Every year a number of North American universities design and build machines for rural communities in developing countries and have a competition to select the best. They are simple and cheap, the engines are donated and they are to be assembled on site. Can you tell they're designed by engineers?


Find out more at the Institute For Affordable Transportation,

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

2 "OLD" ideas



I have been scanning inside a site : http://douglas.typepad.com/content/design/index.html

Some Gizmag links I likes these 2 ideas.

Monday, June 25, 2007

China Energy Challange



Check out this link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6769743.stm