3D printed prototype electric car from StreetScooter
StreetScooter, a German company known for electric vehicles, have recently designed a prototype of the C16 electric car and made most of the components for the cars exterior using a 3D printer. They used the Stratasys Objet1000 3D Production System to make the front and back panels, along with the door panels, bumpers, wheel arches, side skirts, lamp masks and some of the interior components.
[Image Courtesy of Stratasys]
Many parts of the C16 production version will be made using conventional methods, but 3D printing allowed the prototype of the car to be designed and manufactured cheaper and in less than 12 months. While the car may have parts that have been 3D printed, the company said that the car was able to “perform in strenuous testing environments to the same level as a vehicle made of traditionally manufactured parts.”
[Image Courtesy of Stratasys]
The Objet1000 is the biggest multi-material 3D printer in the world and this was needed to take on a project the size of a car. It allowed StreetScooter to be able to print the parts in ABS, with some parts being up to as much as one meter in length.
[Image Courtesy of Stratasys]
StreetScooter makes a delivery truck in Germany that is used by the postal system there. At the moment they are keeping a lot of the details about the C16 under wraps. However, they did say that the production version of the electric car would weigh around 455kg including the battery. It is said to have a range of 100km minimum and reach a top speed of 100 km/h. The price tag for the C16 is said to be in the region of below 10,000 Euros.
Anyone visiting the EuroMold show over November 25 to 28 will be able to see the prototype for themselves as it will be on show in Frankfurt.
Charge your device using your belt with new wearable tech
When you hear about wearable tech in the news chances are it’s another new smartwatch. However, a young entrepreneur has taken a new approach to wearable tech with the XOO belt: a combination of a classic belt and a portable USB charger.
Designed by serial entrepreneur Piers Ridyard, the belt packs a 2,100 mAh battery, enough to fully charge an empty iPhone 6. Ridyard said that he had the idea years ago, but has been waiting for the flexible lithium polymer battery technology that only became available last June.
“This is for people who are sick of their mobile phones dying,” explained Ridyard, 27. “They don’t like battery cases and they don’t want to lug around a charger. The XOO belt solves the problem of suddenly running out of battery.”
The flexible layers of batteries are weaved into the leather belt which allows the zinc belt buckle, which houses a USB port and a cable, to be thin and not bulky like others on the market. Conveniently, you can charge your device whilst it’s in your pocket thanks to the reach of the cable.
“Existing belt chargers either have huge belt buckles, which looks terrible, or stitch old-style lithium battery chargers into the belt, which is actually dangerous,” says Ridyard, mentioning the risk of cracking a solid lithium-ion battery in that it may explode. The flexible tech used in the XOO is said to be stable even when flexed.
It’s not his first attempt at launching a product on to the market either; he’s the guy behind the Nifty MiniDrive, the external hard drive that fits into the SD slot on an Apple Macbook increasing storage by up to 128 gigabytes. After raising $400,000 on Kickstarter, the hard drive can now be found in Apples stores in various countries.
And again he has turned to crowdsourcing with a campaign on Indiegogo for the XOO where he is seeking to raise $50,000 – and he’s already not far off. The early bird price of $99 has already been scooped up, with the lowest you can pledge to receive one now being $155. If all goes accordingly, the first shipment is set to be in July next year.
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Most Comfortable Cinemas Ever
Like watching movies or television in bed? Well now you can watch movies on the big screen while laying down too! Here are four really cool theaters from around the world that feature beds instead of chairs. Some of these were sadly one time set ups. The good news is though, that some were not. The Electric Cinema in England offers patrons a choice of armchairs, beds and sofas! Too cool. There is also a theater in Jakarta, Indonesia that offers velvet seating. Beds and armchairs. Check out these cool photos of the most comfortable cinemas around the world. - See more at: http://welldonestuff.com/most-comfortable-cinemas-ever/#sthash.FWHVDoSC.dpuf
promotional event a few years ago in Paris.
Like watching movies or television in bed? Well now you can watch movies on the big screen while laying down too! Here are four really cool theaters from around the world that feature beds instead of chairs. Some of these were sadly one time set ups. The good news is though, that some were not. The Electric Cinema in England offers patrons a choice of armchairs, beds and sofas! Too cool. There is also a theater in Jakarta, Indonesia that offers velvet seating. Beds and armchairs. Check out these cool photos of the most comfortable cinemas around the world. - See more at: http://welldonestuff.com/most-comfortable-cinemas-ever/#sthash.FWHVDoSC.dpuf
The Electric Cinema in England
10TB SSD available cheaper thanks to NAND technology
You will soon be able to put huge amounts of memory into your computer thanks to NAND technology developed by Intel and Toshiba. The companies have revealed 3D NAND memory chips which are stacked in layers, which mean they can hold more data than the chips with single planes that are out now.
Toshiba have revealed that they are working on the first 48 layer NAND chip in the world with a 16GB chip that boosts reliability and speed. At the moment they are giving engineering samples to manufacturers but the general public will have to wait for a while longer to get their hands on them.
Intel along with their partner Micron also revealed they are making their own version of a 32 layer NAND chip and predict that it should be available in SSD format in about a year. They are working on bigger NAND memory as 32GB chips are already available and they will soon have a 48GB version available. It will be possible to make M.2 PCle SSD at gum stick size and up to 3.5TB along with 10TB SSDs at just 2.5 inches. This would put them on a level with many of the latest hard drives on the market.
Samsung have been using 3D NAND technology for a while now and so they can expect competition from Toshiba along with Intel and Micron. The good news for consumers is that we can expect higher capacity and cheaper NAND SSDs in the not too distant future.
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