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Not your typical green machine
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.

Car racing will seem so boring after this
Cool CGI of what a Rocket Racing League ‘raceway in the sky’ might look like. Second video after the jump.

 Next generation SoloTrek
A public debut of the Martin ducted-fan powered “JetPack” at AirVenture Oshkosh, 2008. According to the designers, this jetpack can fly for 30 minutes before refueling. Second video after the jump.
 

 
 Life on the moon as depicted by the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova
On August 6th the DaVinci Institute will be hosting the legendary science fiction author, Dr. Ben Bova, at its Night with a Futurist event.
In his various writings, Dr. Bova has predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, solar power satellites, the [...]

 
 What happens to an At-At when he walks through a bad neighborhood.
When you’re part of the evil Empire, you have to conquer worlds. Street by street if you have to.
 

The Dish on ET
Astronomers are banking on a promising new technology to trace extra-terrestrials in the same way that one locates a needle in a haystack.
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) comprises hundreds of small dishes that combine modern, miniaturised electronics and innovative technologies with computer processing.
It endows researchers with the capability to search for possible [...]

Cisco has unveiled and demonstrated their new On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing. In layman’s terms, it means that now you can actually do that thing they do in Star Wars when they talk to a Princess Leia hologram, and I have to say, it looks quite convincing…

Fans have been longing for a full scale Star Wars robot to ride around in
Here are a series of video of those attempts. Some are pretty cool.
 

With all the Star Wars items on the market today, this has to be pretty bad, tacky and just out there stuff, to have been rejected right? How about Bantha slippers? Some seem fine, if a bit odd, like Galactic Foosball or the Death Star dart board. My favorite is the Galactic Big Game trophies. [...]