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Brand: Brian Kenneth Høhl Design Type: Racing Bike Tag: Vehicle Date: Friday, 28 August 2026

Electric

Electric Race Bike is a light electric bicycle developed for road racing use. The frame is made from a combination of kevlar and carbon, which makes the structure strong and very light. The total weight is 9.5 kilograms. A central motor supplies force and torque to assist the rider. The battery has a patented construction and is hidden inside the frame. High end components common in professional cycling are used. The geometry follows that of a road racing bicycle, and the form was refined in a wind tunnel to improve aerodynamics.

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Brand: Aivaras Astrauskas Design Type: Smart Vehicle Diagnostic Tool Tag: Vehicle Accessory Date: Thursday, 27 August 2026

OBDeleven

OBDeleven is a compact diagnostic device for modern vehicles. The device plugs into the OBDII port and connects wirelessly to a smartphone or tablet, where cloud-based software reads the vehicle systems. The form is inspired by the modern car key, so the size, colour and materials suit a daily driving accessory. A glowing LED light can be set to different colours to match the car interior. A strip allows convenient extraction. Matte plastic surfaces are combined with shiny elements. The small body keeps professional functions in a portable form.

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Brand: Maxxis International and Cheng Shin Rubber Ind Design Type: Transformative Tyre Tag: Vehicle Accessory Date: Wednesday, 26 August 2026

T Razr

In the near future, the booming of electric transportation development is at the door. As a car part manufacturer, Maxxis keeps thinking how it can design a feasible smart system that can participate in this trend and even help accelerate it. T Razr is a smart tire developed for the need. Its built-in sensors actively detect different driving conditions and provide active signals to transform the tire. The magnified treads stretch and change the contact area in response to the signal, therefore improve the traction performance.

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Brand: Dr. MICKEY MENGTING Zhang Design Type: Smart Aroma Diffusor Tag: Vehicle Accessory Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Theunique

Agarwood is rare and expensive. Its aroma can only be obtained from burning or extraction, used indoor and afforded by few users. To break these limitations, a smart aroma diffusor and natural hand-made agarwood tablets are created after 3-year’s efforts with over 60 designs, 10 prototypes and 200 experiments. It demonstrates a new possible business model and using context for agarwood industry. Users can simply insert diffusor inside of a car, customise time, density and variety of aroma with ease and enjoy the immersive aromatherapy wherever they go and whenever they drive.

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Brand: Lachezar Ivanov Design Type: Bicycle Tag: Vehicle Date: Monday, 24 August 2026

PD TT Bike

This is a concept of a triathlon bicycle, made only for professional athletes. The musculature of the universal Spanish fighter is built of the latest generation of carbon fibers. Under the carbon frame, you can easily communicate the muscular body of the Miura bulls and the latest technologies in the bicycle industry, highlighting the sharp lines of the design and emphasizing the professional line of the frame. The development of the bicycle prototype is made by the Bulgarian design studio.

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Brand: Robson Marques de Pontes Design Type: Hypercar Tag: Vehicle Date: Sunday, 23 August 2026

Brescia Hommage

In times of high-tech all digital gadgets, flatness of touch screens and rational single-volume vehicles, the Brescia Hommage project is an old school two-seater hypercar design study envisioned as celebration to an era where elegant simplicity , high-touch materiality, raw power, pure beauty and the direct connection between man and machine were the rule of the game. A time when brave and ingenious men like Ettore Bugatti himself created mobile devices that amazed the world.

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