I’ve been lurking the net and some cool new design concepts are coming out such as:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … ugees.html -Lilypad City
http://www.gizmag.com/green-float-ocean-cities/16896/ -green float
http://inhabitat.com/mermaid-inspired-a … rchitects/ -Mermaid
hurry up and design a flying city people ,so I can put my James bond villain plans into action. 
Not just a flying city… but an ORBITAL COLONY!!!
That way I can do colony drops when I become an evil New Type. :twisted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtuioXKs … re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPAIpXm … re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnyJ4bj2 … re=related
Oh wow…the time of robot waifus is very nearly upon us.Come on Sega ,make me a meidobot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD45oO0 … ure=fvwrel
Not to mention the many service bots that will spring into existence.
Of course, naturally when the heroes infiltrate your base you’ll greet them in something like this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qas3Uu_1M9Y
Also ,someone please tell me I’m not the only one who wants to pilot this on a crowded street in Tokyo during rush hour-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g
Fuck,it ticks me off when I see a cool blimp/dirigible design only to find out it’s a lot of hot air. :evil:
Take this,the Seymour powell aircruise:
http://www.airships.net/blog/hydrogen-airship-nonsense
Now even before I read this blog,I knew Hydrogen was a bad idea,but since Samsung had apparently partnered up with them I assumed they were working out the kinks(like hydrogen).I read this,and it says not only would it blow up,but it’s so non-aerodynamic it would never fly anywhere near it’s promised speed,and has no means of propulsion.It was just a PR stunt only no one ever said,"Hey guys this isn’t possible we don’t know what we’re doing."It’s like those food commercials that use shit like shoe polish to make food attractive and don’t mention the obvious distortion of product image.
Yes,I know no one spent money on this airship hotel,but an Adolescence of Steampunk made me yearn for a time when dirigibles plied the skies.Any time I actually see a unique design with interesting features like a sky lounge or bungee jump:
http://blogsbyjuanc.blogspot.com/2010/0 … rship.html
It turns out to be some design by artists giving me blue balls.Hurry the fuck up aerospace engineers,before I’m old and dead. :x
Sorry,I just felt like venting and this would be a weird rant in real life.
Some really crappy writing in some of those articles, including a horrible misuse of the word “dystopian”. Still, the idea of a floating city, (while nothing new) is still very cool.
Not sure about the tiny girlfriend-bot; it can blow kisses and wiggle its mid section … and this is supposed to serve as a girlfriend for lonely guys? Japan has some weird ideas about men. (now, get me a fully functioning chobit or persocom and we’re in business)
These robot designs are pretty nifty in giving us a glimpse of what service bots are likely to look like when they one day replace your vacuum cleaners.
The 2 wheeled chair had one huge problem, which they address offhandedly in the video - it can only tackle up to 10 degree slopes … my city sidewalks are slopier than that.
The legged chair was pretty cool, though they’ll need to find a way to make it move faster before it will be very functional - right now it barely walks faster than a man standing still. Indeed, though, this opens up some very cool possibilities for people who have no use of their legs.
And, I SO want a Dirigible.
I revive this thread with the invention of real life Medi-Gel:
When I was very small, there actually were blimps sailing the skies over the town in Michigan where I grew up. They were mostly used for advertising, like this one used by a local brewery:
