This Tesla Model M + Blade Runner mashup car hovers somewhere above Neo-futurism and lunarpunk!

Imagining the cars of the future has captured our attention for years. I still remember drawing cars with wings in grade school because that’s about as far as my imagination would take me. Designer Dan Window looked to Blade Runner to fuel his imagination and created his Spinner 44 render, which both captures the enigmatic spirit of the film series’ Spinner and brings us to new futuristic landscapes.

Spinner 44 might oscillate somewhere between Blade Runner’s flying car and a Tesla Model X, both cars of tomorrow in their own right. Operable as a ground-based or airborne vehicle, Spinner 44 appears as a two-seater with an additional back compartment in the trunk. Spinner 44’s dual front wheels are given a proper smoothing, which stretches over the whole car, giving an overall slick, leatherback look. The shape of Spinner 44 resembles the great black wasp, with the front wheels being the wasp’s mandibles and the angular, licked rear, the wasp’s stinger. Lunarpunk looks, like its mirror glaze finish and jet black coating, slide over the whole vehicle, for incognito night drives, into the chiaroscuro backdrop of the Blade Runner‘s City of Angels. Swapping brutalism for neo-futurism, Window’s Spinner 44 embraces the technology of today and tomorrow outside the car as well as inside. Wedged between the car’s two front seats, smart computers seem to run the whole show – I can’t imagine this car’s engine light ever getting turned off. From the rearview, Spinner 44’s additional internal combustion engines provide airlift and carry and jet propulsion for the vehicle.

Syd Mead, designer of the original Spinner, made famous by the Blade Runner film series, described his science-fiction automobile as an ‘aerodyne,’ which means a vehicle that pushes air downward in order to hover aboveground. Other creatives from the film series have said that the Spinner is propelled by three engines: conventional internal combustion, jet, and anti-gravity. Whatever the case might be, let’s see where these flying cars take us. Check out Dan Window’s Blade Runner-inspired render below!

Designer: Dan Window

The Orbit fidget pen is everything a creative needs

I tend to fidget a lot as I do stuff. When I’m typing, my leg taps endlessly. When I’m watching something online, I need to be eating something… and at rare occasions when I find myself doing nothing, I take my smartphone out to play a game or browse a social network.

If 2017 was the year of fidget spinners, 2018 is the year where we put the toy to good use, with the Orbit Pen, a pen that also serves as a fidgeting toy, allowing you to keep yourself engaged yet focused, lest you drift away and start scrolling endlessly through Instagram.

The ballpoint pen comes with a ball-bearing-based frictionless spinning mechanism. Designed to be held by the two metal caps on either side of the pen, the pen itself can be spun at high speeds, occupying your fingers (as well as your mind). If that wasn’t enough, the pen also comes with a metal ball-bearing at the opposite end of its tip, for playful rolling. It even comes with a textural twister, and a telescopic member, for further fidgeting, allowing you to roll, spin, twist, and pull, all in one. The purpose of this is to keep your mind from wandering away, and your fingers active. The pen, on the other hand, comes with a twist-to-deploy ballpoint nib. Designed with a small framework for easy spinning, the pen can even be extended (using the telescopic member) to make the pen longer than before, so that writing with it feels natural.

Aside from being a remarkable writing and fidgeting tool, the Orbit Pen makes a pretty desktop toy too, thanks to the stand it comes along with. Designed in a way that allows you to dock as well as spin the pen, the pen and stand can continuously keep spinning on your tabletop as you engage with your work. The stand too, like the pen, is multifunctional, with a slit running along the side that works as a sharp letter-opener. Made with a matching finish, the stand and pen go well together on your desktop… but if you choose to carry the Orbit Pen around with you, it comes with its own soft PU leather case as well.

Designer: Keep Pursuing

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