Archive for August 21st, 2008
21
Aug
08
Man can fly in coming future
Lenovo IdeaPad U8 got its official intro at the Beijing games and here are the specs for this Asia-only MID. It sports a 4.8-inch touchscreen; a sub-3 watt processor from Intel (Silverthorn-class Atom); weighs 350-grams and measures 21 x 173 x 84-mm. It offers up to 2GB memory and 6GB flash storage and features dual-cameras. It even has support for China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting (CMMB) digital television that is enhanced by the USB dongle.
Specs also include 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, EDGE data and China-specific TD-SCDMA 3G. Hopefully it will feature WiMAX when it reaches N America and Europe.
With a design brief to create the BMW of 2015 by interpreting “the language evolution and the trademark essence in view of the company’s future perspectives,” students from Turin, Italy’s Istituto Europeo di Design came up with some fresh new bodies on which to affix the roundel. The radical designs incorporated such varied themes as relationships and community, African culture and design, and fundamental changes in structure and space. We can’t claim to understand every nuance of these thought provoking designs, but we can certainly pass them on to appreciate on a purely visual level. Click through the gallery above to enjoy.
The final projects of the Transportation Design students at Turin-based IED (istituto Europeo di Design), developed in partnership with BMW with the goal of creating a car for 2015 interpreting the language evolution and the brand’s philosophy.
The thesis brief was “Designing the BMW of 2015, interpreting the language evolution and the trademark essence, in view of the company’s future perspectives”.
