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Elon Musk Reveals New EV Concept for his Boring Tunnels
The CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk has big plans to make a fast vehicular tunnel system beneath LA. He has even given others a glimpse into how the final arrangement is going to look like....
Elon Musk Explains Why Boring Tunnels are Better than Flying Cars
Elon Musk launched a new startup called Boring Company. As reported last week, the first tunnel gets drilled right now on the grounds of SpaceX. Elon Musk points today in a Tweet to a new FAQ on the...
Mr. Musk’s anti-traffic tunnels
ICMYI (In Case You Missed It) turns out, Elon Musk isn’t joking. The traffic in Los Angeles pushed him to reinvent travel yet again… first with Tesla, second (and more broadly) with SpaceX), now the Boring Company aims at doing something you would expect from an Isaac Asimov novel.
The basic plan (as the video shows) is to convert the entire city’s underground into a dizzying network of life-size Hot Wheels tracks that cross, overlap, merge, etc., covering each and every nook and corner of the city. To regulate the traffic, cars wouldn’t drive on these tracks… They would be carried on platforms that move at speeds as high as 200kmph (even though your car isn’t technically moving, you’ll still need that seatbelt). These platforms appear on the road above and when the car parks itself inside it, they descend downwards into the network of tunnels and take off. It’s safe to say that this will obviously take some time, since Mr. Musk has a lot of projects to work on. Putting humans on Mars being one of the loftier objectives!
Designer: Elon Musk (The Boring Company)
Elon Musk’s vision is to build a network of tunnels to skip traffic
What may seem to be the most random idea of Elon Musk, is now on the verge of becoming a reality, just like Tesla and SpaceX became. It started last December when Elon Musk tweeted his frustrated...
Elon Musk talks up electric plane at hyperloop event
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Electric airplanes are practically a non-existent technology, but that could change if Elon Musk decides to put money and energy behind the particular concept he's been mulling over for a number of years now. And it could begin to change soon.
How tunnels are built, used along US-Mexico border
How smugglers build and use tunnels along the US-Mexico border NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — As border security has tightened, drug cartels have turned to tunneling beneath the ground to avoid...
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The Futuristic Tokyoflash Space Digits Watch
The new super futurist Space Digits from Tokyoflash looks like a cross between Tron, Asteroids and the Star Wars crawl. The watch has a really cool look to it, as if you were looking into a tunnel. It’s simple to see the time and date- just read it along the “tunnel” walls.
It’s kind of mesmerizing…in a good way. The time is written out with four digits from left to right while the date is read from top to bottom.
So cool- it manages to be both retro, modern, and futuristic all at once. Does that make it a timeless timepiece (haha)? It comes in black, gold, silver with a green or gold LCD. It has an alarm, backlighting, and an animation mode as well.
The Futuristic Tokyoflash Space Digits Watch
Cat Tunnel Couch
For millions of pet owners out there, it’s time to stop the selfishness with regards to your furniture. Your furniture should be designed for everyone, not just the humans in your house. That’s the theory behind the Cat Tunnel Sofa, a couch designed for both you and your cat. Designer Seungji Mun actually built this sofa from scratch using big piece of pipe for the tunnel and foam for the cushions:
When everyone in the house can enjoy the furniture, everyone’s happy. Except maybe the dog- but he does have his own rocking chair, so no right to complain there.
( Seungji Mun via 1designperday)