This house is designed by J.Mayer H. architecture and it is situated in southwest Germany. It is a renovation of an older building made in 1984 but it now has a completely different style.

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'Living with Robots' is a small 8min documentary about robots and especially Asimo that Honda presented in the Sundance Film festival. Asimo is the most advanced and probably most popular humanoid robot in the world. Humanoid (or bipedal) robots are a very difficult task because of their inherently unstable form. However if someday a robot is to be used alongside humans in our environment and homes it should have similar to human form in order to adapt to our living environment.

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After many years of service with almost every brand in the Ford group the modular 5-cylinder Volvo engine is replaced from an all new one. It has the quite descriptive name GTDi that stands for Gasoline Turbo Direct Injection. Its first iteration has a capacity of 2.0lt and 203hp of power. It has 4 cylinders and it will be launched under the hood of the S80, V70 and XC60. The new engine has all the state of the art features like direct injection and variable timing camshafts but there is also a world first, a two wall sheet steel outlet manifold that houses also the turbo.

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After a completely secret development process today the new 5th generation fighter of the Russian Air Force made its first flight and was presented to the rest of the world. The T-50 prototype with test pilot Sergey Bogdan took off from the Sukhoi 's facilities in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (east Russia, near the Pacific) and made a 47min flight where the basic systems were tested and the landing gear was cycled. The T-50 prototype (and the production plane that will come later) is the first Russian-designed stealth fighter and together with 4th gen Su-27 derivatives will consist the core of the Russian air force in the near future.

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The new Ferrari Formula 1 car is called F10 and these are its first photos from the webcast of its unveiling. No deep analysis can be done from these first images but one can see the overall design of the car without the details and from what we can see the main areas of interest of F10's design are the wheelbase, the nosecone and the radiator covers.

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Motorhomes or RVs haven't evolve much for decades. They may have good quality materials and equipment no different from a small house but likewise they are designed like a small house that simply is on top (or get towed by) a car or truck. There must be a better design because a motorhome will eventually be used differently than a house and as obvious as this sounds the general motorhome companies seems to haven't notice it. Some years ago I saw the livingis.be website where these images are from. It is a motorhome based on a Unimog U4000 off-road truck. Instead of the conventional construction it has a accommodation structure made from riveted aluminum spars and panels, a foldable roof and a very efficient and practical interior layout.

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This could be either the a really large ant or a very small camera. Fortunately it is the latter and with a diameter of only 3mm the Video Scout camera is around 5 times smaller than most medical endoscopic cameras. It combines very good image quality and low cost. It is designed from BC Tech inc. and it will be sold as a module for various applications.

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This small two seater may look like a conventional motorglider but it could be revolutionary for general aviation. It is called E430 and it is made by Yuneec Aircraft Company of Shangai China. Instead of an internal combustion engine it uses an electric motor and a pack of Li-ion batteries.

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Bimota may have a rough time the last decade with financial problems and ownership changes but its future looks now promising. This is the new Moto2 race bike that will compete in this year's championship. Moto2 is a prototype class with a common engine supplied by Honda for all teams (sourced from the CBR600RR). It will replace the GP250 two-strokes and it will slot just below MotoGP class. With the exception of V-Due, Bimota always built bikes with engines from other manufacturers and Moto2 seems a perfect match.

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