prototypes
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Airbus to Test Future eVTOL Flying Taxi Routes in Japan
Airbus is partnering with Japanese helicopter operator Hiratagakuen to develop navigation technologies.
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Prototype Reveals Your eReader Might One Day Fold Just Like a Real Book
In addition to low power consumption and excellent legibility in bright sunlight, E Ink’s electronic paper displays are just as flexible as OLED screens. So while folding phones and tablets are grabbing headlines, folding eBook readers could soon be a thing too, as this prototype from E Ink reveals.
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These New-Old Images Of The Most Amazing VW Prototype Hint At A Future That Wasn’t
I think of all the cars that were designed and prototyped but not actually put into production, one of my favourites is Volkswagen’s 1969 EA 266 prototype, an incredible mid-engined marvel of small-car packaging. I wrote about it back in 2014, but now, thanks to our pals over at Car Design Archives, a new batch…
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Chevy Once Designed An Amphibious Jeep Competitor Out Of The Corvair
Prior to Ralph Nader’s book panning the Corvair, Unsafe at Any Speed, Chevrolet already had a plan to help make Corvairs unsafe, by placing them in contexts where they’d be shot at: war. Yes, in 1963, GM came up with a remarkable loosely Corvair-based amphibious military vehicle called the TUFI, for Truck Utility Floatable Independent.…