From an aesthetic point of view, draping Apple products in carbon fibre is a staggeringly obvious idea. Staggeringly expensive too — Apple’s never gotten past a concept. But if you can’t have carbon fibre iProducts, here’s the next best thing.
When carbon fibre was first trotted out in solid-rocket motor cases and tanks in the 1960s, it was poised to not only take on fibreglass, but also a whole host of other materials.
So you might think a carbon fibre bathtub is silly, but somewhere there’s a person who won’t just bathe themselves in a common porcelain basin — they need excess. The Corcel N°1 is a beautiful thing for the awesomely opulent.
Oscar Pistorius has two carbon fibre blades for legs. Despite that, he can run 400m in 45.07 seconds. And South Africa, his home country, is sending him to the World Championships to compete against a field of normal-legged runners.
Voila! UPenn’s super-sophisticated uber-bike. Five kids. Substantial funding and sponsorship dollars. Free reign to eliminate clunks gears and cables. It’s called Alpha.
Except instead of seeming menacing, it actually comes across as neat. This is the newly erected schoolhouse for boys at the Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School in Victoria, Australia.
Your business peers can gloat all they want about their embossed iron-coloured cards – when you pull out your carbon fibre cards they’ll instantly know you’re the kind of guy who spends $US1600 on a pack of 100. [CarbonFiberDesigns via Uncrate via BornRich]
I don’t care how much lighter carbon fibre makes something – is it really necessary to paint a bleedin’ tennis table paddle in it? I will concede it looks damn cool, but $US140 cool? Yeh, I thought so. [Donic Schildkröt CarboTec 100 via Uncrate]
Is the iron loan clipped to your ear too much to bear? Are you a sucker for anything crafted from carbon fibre? Blutrek’s Carbon earpiece might draw you in, weighing only a scant 7g, with Bluetooth 3.0 support.
So remember that time we saw that Apple had been dreaming up carbon fibre iPads in a patent? Looks like the idea’s got some legs, if the recent hiring of Senior Composites Engineer Kevin Kenny is any indication.
