Automotive: Inspiration Of The Day

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LOOK THROUGH MY CAMERA: Dragster Pomona

What an impressive weekend. Up close with machines reaching 500 km/h in under 4 seconds. 5g acceleration and 6g deceleration. The pressure waives going through your body when they start are absolutely terrifying.

More on flickr all week. Here the first batch: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmicmotors/

More soon, cheers Daniel

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: Tim's Rocket II

Living in L.A., you see lots of crazy stuff on the road - patrol paradise. But when I heard Tim Cotterill on his Rocket II trike the other day thundering by in normal traffic in Venice Beach, I could not feel more ordinary and boring, designing just virtual fantasies! Lol. Tim makes a living creating little frog sculptures (yes, frogs, awesome), and had this monster built at the famed Blastolene Brothers.
Check out this video and don't mind the uber-cheesy 80ies film style, it's about the spirit of building such marvellous machine. Kudos for ever.

Cheers, Daniel

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: Wow Robot

Oh my god, will it never stop to see awesome new robot concepts. Look at this guy, and its getting more interesting from 0:40 on. And the gag at 0:50, priceless.

Hat tip, Daniel

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: 500 years to travel around a star

What's the biggest star we dicovered so far? Someone named it VY Canis Majoris. It takes about 500 years to fly around its equator in a jet fighter - at full speed. It doesn't care about the sun, the earth or your hobbies. Its shear size is incomprehensible and freaks me out!
I'm the biggest nerd fan of the Apollo moon program, but if I put it in scale to those dimensions ... well.
Watch this great animation on youTube in HD, and remain in awe for the rest of your day.

Cheers, Daniel

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: air racing on the edge

The Red Bull Air Race is one of the event on earth that comes closest to all the racing madness envisioned in scifi flicks and computer games. I include myself in dreaming about this stuff when it comes to design new vehicles and stories for Cosmic Motors. But on earth, real shit can happen. Click below and see how pilot Matt Hall escapes a horrifying crash with skills and luck. He dips his wing tip into the water at high speed by "looking into the turn", apparently a mistake at out-of-this-world-level of flying.
Although bad endings are part of racing too, I won't post any accident clips in this blog. So here we go.

Go air racers go!

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: lockheed martin monowing rotorcraft

This is the Samarai UAV project. Getting its name and concept from the flying Samara fruit, it could be an awkward, yet simple flying machine. Not for personal transportation, but filming, spying, surveillance, etc. As impractical as it looks, don't forget it doesn't have any exterior moving parts due to its mono-winged layout. That makes it a rugged contender for easy to handle / carry on vehicles.

For more, read this Lockheed Martin Samarai pdf file.

Cheers, Daniel

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: incredible flying machine

Watch this Quadrotor maneuvering in a lab of University of Pennsylvania and let your imagination fly. It is truly awesome, especially the precision it displays. Whether pre-programmed to this flight path or autonomously guided - I can't stop thinking of a speed contest through a three dimensional maze. Wow. Cosmic Motors Quadrotor Racing, anybody? Hat tip to Grasp Lab.

Cheers, Daniel

INSPIRATION OF THE DAY: real life minority report interface

I will start posting a few things on this blog that I stumbled upon on my daily web safari, lets call it "Inspiration Of The Day". It will be related to space, technology, robotics, sciences, etc. Stuff that inspires me and hopefully you too. Some of it might be dated, some new, don't care.
Today I saw this presentation at 2010 TED, with John Underkoffler showing a real Minority Report User Interface. It's jaw dropping and reality soon.
Cheers, Daniel