Here's more on Nebo from Weiss himself:

Nebo is a portable shop system, consisting of a beverage backpack and a vendor‘s tray. It is an eye catching product, ideal for selling beverages and ice-cream at festivals, sports events or beach or in general in all terrain that can not be managed easily with a trolley. The core piece of the beverage backpack is covered with a UVresistant foil. It is held by a bag made of wear resistant textile and a foam textile composite. Several straps enable adjustment of the back piece to achieve a comfortable and firm hold on the user‘s back.

If they can have those Segway riding drone people with TV's strapped to their backs at tech shows, they can make this happen too. This design is also somehow based on a penguin. I respect that. [Mario Weiss via The Design Blog]

More "leaked" shots of the new MacBook Pros expected to be announced in just under a couple of weeks, ostensibly taken via camera phone by an Apple designer.

I'm not buying it: although we can be certain that the new MacBook Pros will have a magnetic latch, and while this design is probably more plausible than the rumored glass touchpad, that black trackpad looks awful. There's no way Jobs is going to let that through.

The "leaked ad" pushes credibility way too far, though:

"A blend of beauty meets beastly power?" That's not even grammatically correct, let alone plausible. There's no universe where Jobs is going to sign off on describing one of his zen product designs with the adjective "beastly." Who would be the Feist for that advertising campaign, I wonder? Personally, I'd cross both fleshy tines of my bifurcated tongue for the Genitorturers.

Leaked Pictures of New MacBook Pro [Cult of Mac]

"Look, Marvin!" he literally ejaculated. I hate this guy. "I just sent a photo of an insipid cartoon feline omnibus transformer to a random stranger, her face obscured, whom I hope might — through an implausible chain of events and a way slippery slope — somehow be persuaded to absorb my genetic filth by repeated exposure to my frankly embarrassing stuffed animal collection."

No matter how many times I drop to my knees and deliver a resounding haymaker to Brownlee's groin, he always seems surprised, even though it's a documented provision of the BBG human resources manual. But the deed was done. Then, I took his iPhone, hit reply to his mystery girl, took a picture of his fetally trembling gelatin mass and then went to take a four hour angry nap.

But my beak was wet. I admit, a lot of it was homesickness. Ever since being plucked from the dimensionally veiny navel of the timestream's pregnant belly like so much cybernetically-enhanced smegma, I have missed the marvels of the 29th century. For me, watching you guys with your iPhones is like watching a bunch of obelisk-licking cave monkeys communicate by smashing out brain-splattered morse code to one another with sharp rocks administered to the skull.

Still, PhotoSwap is an intriguing app.

Where I'm from, we share every joy of our blissful day-to-day lives by willing open our empathic sluices, where our thoughts and emotions and sensations are slurped up by the populace at large. For example, I know what the exact sensation of making love to Beschizza's great-great-great-great-great²⁴³-granddaughter feels like: as it turns out, flabbily similar to the sensation of making love to a drunk, unconscious Beschizza, but then again, they're both British.

I digress. The point is that PhotoSwap, however Luditically, afforded me the opportunity to share the random sensations of my life with the biomass. When I woke up, I was determined to experiment.

I decided to take baby steps. While there was no doubt in my mind that my PhotoSwap account would one day usher in a new era of mankind — the equivalent of Martin Luther charging bravely up the cathedral steps and nailing several Polaroids of his wondrously engorged scrotum to the momentous maple doors — I have had sadly negative experiences ushering in such eras in the past. This time I would be more careful.

The first photo I took was simple: a walrus with a cat's head I'd grown in a pickle jar, using its flippers to sign "LOL" in American Sign Language. My walcat was a birthday present for Xeni, so don't tell her about it: I'd like her to be surprised. The response: a zoomed-in shot of Katy Perry's pixelated left elbow from a YouTube bootleg of her "Ur So Gay" video... a song, incidentally, which will one day usher in a Wyld Stallyn's like era of Greco-Roman homonarchy. I was pleased. I had initiated anonymous contact with a prophetic cave man.

Galvanized, I decided to take it up a notch: a photo of what death looks like (spoiler alert: a thousand parakeets licking your eyeballs forever). But here my troubles began. The photograph that I got in response was of an anonymous goiter... not even sentient, as near as I could tell.

Undeterred, I took another shot, this time of a chemical formula I'd jotted off describing the mechanism of human limb regeneration. Response: a soggy bowl of what appear to be Urkel-Os.

Next photo: my rubber band, easily aped prototype for a working perpetual motion machine. The karana mudra framing a monumental excremental log.

I was getting pissed. Any one of my PhotoSwap photos could have initiated a halcyon era of human enlightenment. Instead, each was wasted upon the anacephalic brain cavities of lazy cretins. Does it surprise you that Wall Street needs a $700 billion bail out? It shouldn't: each of these images was geo-positioned to the palatial mansion of a Fortune 500 CEO, which is exactly why you'll all be having your babies over barbecue grills soon enough... and which is why, incidentally, China — I know, right? — will finally decide to march into Detroit to provide humanitarian aid. Upside: the nascent genesis of the 'Verse.

I was pissed. If a vast legion of creatively bereft idiots was going to seed me with nothing but the blinking glimpses of their bovines existences, I would return the favor a millionfold. I am still tied into the timestream. I can not go back, nor forward, but I can afford glimpses into things no one wants to see. And luckily, the omphalos to space time is USB compatible. Brownlee's iPhone, which I've stolen? Jailbroken.

Into PhotoSwap, slurped: an image of a cross. My response: Jesus Christ being decapitated as a Dracula by Pontius Pilate. A blurry glimpse of a cat; an explicit glimpse of Feline Apartheid in the 22nd Century's irradiated South Africa, in which brain pans are supped upon like milk bowls. A screen capture of a Digg, in which it is revealed John McCain owns VoteForTheMILF.com; Sarah Palin's scatological octogenarian debut, filmed with Angela Menkel in the Oval Office.

And so on. But I toss up my hands: if you people do not wish to seat yourselves upon the loop-de-loop roller coaster of beatific enlightenment, I can hardly hurl you under the wheels. All I will say is that as a sociological experiment, PhotoSwap is an embarrassment. Even Brownlee agrees: while at Oktoberfest, he snagged a once-in-a-lifetime shot of a New Zealand drunk vomiting down the bodice of a freshly minted Bavarian beer wench. The image he received in return: an ingrown toe nail.

"What's the point of sharing the best moments of your own life with strangers if all you get is mundanity in return?" It's the wisest thing Brownlee has ever said... unfortunately for him, the BBG human resource handbook dictates a policy for that as well.

Marvin Battelle is Boing Boing Gadgets' band manager. Like you, he thinks "cultural engineers" are douche bags.

Check out this latest badboy from this year’s LA Auto Show Motorsport 2025 theme, the show itself has been known to be THE show for featuring the most unique and innovative designs from top firms / manufacturers worldwide and rightly so the latest MMR25 Rally Racer concept from Mitsubishi certainly belongs there.

Though it’s only a concept car, it’s been designed to show what rally cars of the future, more specifically 2025 could be like. So bare it in mind as 2025 is not actually that far away, if everything goes well, we might just be able to see this on a rally course (in WRC on tele perhaps?) soon!

Here’s the official PR…

Mitsubishi Motors Enters its Innovative 2025 Rally Racer for LA Auto Show’s Design Challenge

Continuing its world racing heritage and its industry leading expertise in electric vehicles, Mitsubishi Motors has introduced the most revolutionary racing technology that will defy automotive racing standards in the year 2025.

Mitsubishi’s MMR25 is an all-electric race car powered by a revolutionary drivetrain the future has not yet imagined. This forward-looking, high output powertrain is comprised of four lightweight, high-efficiency, in-wheel electric motors whose output is boosted with the help of eight supplemental motors. The batteries are next generation units, which are more powerful, fully recyclable and can run up to 1,000 miles on a single charge. Specially developed uniform composite Nano fibers give the Lithium batteries their long life and reduced weight. These powerful, yet compact battery packs are located in the center and on each side of the vehicle and are positioned low to the ground for enhanced stability and a lower center of gravity.

The MMR25 incorporates an omnidirectional wheel design that consists of eight independently-controlled electric motors within each wheel hub. This makes the MMR25 the first and only “8 x 4” wheel drive vehicle. The rotational direction of the tires allows the vehicle to be driven forward while pointing the nose of the vehicle in any direction, instead of drifting you can actually drive sideways (or at any angle.) Innovative “Oblique Aerodynamics” gives the vehicle aero advantages when driving sideways.

A driver sits inside a windowless pod just below the center wing. The center wing spoiler is located directly over the cabin, which rises and lowers as the vehicle moves sideways. This pod is surrounded by a seamless, 360-degree panoramic screen displaying images from outside cameras. Removing the heavy glass windows significantly reduces vehicle weight and enables the driver to see changing environmental and track conditions throughout the day. Special Memory Metal Alloy is used in fabricating the sophisticated front and rear spoilers, which also act as suspension blades.

[via Jalopnik]

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The car that has that property is called GINA Light of Visionary Model. It is not out in the market yet because it is still on the conceptual and polishing stage but it definitely promises NEW STYLE in cars. BMW created this car concept in which a seamless, plastic-coated Lycra material is used for the outer body of the car covering its metal frame. The stretchable material allows the car to change its shape as well as the positioning of the steering wheel, gauges and headrest. Once the driver sits inside the car, the different parts will then go into their places.

The car is equipped with a 4.4 liter Z8 with a six-speed automatic transmission. Its body is composed of four panels namely the hood, two sides and rear. The shape-shifting property goes as far as altering things such as adding or removing a spoiler or even widening the fenders. Another plus factor is that the material is water resistant.

If shape-shifting is not yet amazing for you, maybe the headlight arrangement will earn your applause. When the headlights are off, they are hidden under the fabric cover and when the driver turns them on, the outline of the front end of the car changes showing off the headlights. It appears to me as if the car has closing and opening eyes.

BMW intention in creating this concept car is to show that automobiles’ design do not have to be as traditional and usual as the rigid body panels and metal frames. Kudos to BMW!