Apple iMo Concept: the future of transportation?
Anthony Jannarelly created the Apple iMo concept car for his MA Automotive Design at Coventry university. Apple-like design cues are very much infused into the concept car, and one of the videos after the jump which shows the iMo on the roads depicts a future where the iMo is the default means of motoring in the future.
In Jannarelly’s concept, the Apple iMo is more than an urban car, its a robot designed to be 100% autonomous and assist you in your daily activities, due to be released in 2024. The iMo can take up to 3 people in it, or even dedicate its entire interior capacity to transporting goods, since it can travel by itself without being driven. Its interior can reshape itself on the fly to form seats or a flat space to maximise storage area.
The shell of an Apple iMo is made of polycarbonate, and it only has two wheels. It balances itself using gyroscopic sensors, and can lean on the side by changing the diameter of its wheels. It measures 2000mm long, 1990mm wide and 1700mm tall. Since there are only two wheels and therefore only 1 axle, there isn’t really a wheelbase to be measured. It has 60kW of power, which translates into 80 horsepower.
The iMo works hand in hand with a global traffic and parking system to manage the flow of iMos on the road and store (park) them whenever the owner has reached his destination. The parking system frees ground space to maximize human usage. iMos can either be stored underground, be parked on a wall, or be parked in the air simply by allowing it to be picked up by zeppelins. These zeppelins either just hang around in mid-air with iMos on them or transport them to parking lots at the top of buildings.
Is this the future of personal transportation?
Look after the jump for more images and videos of the Apple iMo, a concept by Anthony Jannarelly.
Video: Apple iMo – Say Hello to iMo
Video: Apple iMo – Time to Drive!
Video: Apple iMo – Life is Simple
Video: Apple iMo – Free the City
Video: Apple iMo – Dynamic Sound Filter
December 22, 2008 @ 12:02 am
not gonna be love by car enthusiast…
December 22, 2008 @ 12:30 am
it can travel faster down hill, use the ‘roll down the hill’ method ,hahaha!
December 22, 2008 @ 1:10 am
Nice…..
December 22, 2008 @ 1:12 am
thats a super nonsense bush!t… a “car” or other means of people mover shouldnt be as simple as that… and i dont see any so called 80hp “engine” from the video where it breaks the part of imo…
December 22, 2008 @ 2:46 am
so, how do a person get in and out of the car?
December 22, 2008 @ 8:20 am
Yes, I believe this’ll be the ipod of cardom. U can say anythin, yet, it’ll sell……if Steve Jobs decided to give it a nod.
December 22, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Better use it as a mouse
December 22, 2008 @ 8:53 am
Is this concept came from one of the cleaning robots in ?
Anyway, I won’t drive a vacum cleaner on the street, or all the way to my toilet located across my 100 acres front yard garden.
December 22, 2008 @ 10:25 am
“Is this the future of personal transportation?”
I hope not. God prohibits!
December 22, 2008 @ 10:54 am
it can travel by itself without being driven… whats the brake light doing there.. oh but i do hope it comes with a ipod dock… :p
December 22, 2008 @ 10:58 am
Looks like a lotta fun… wouldn’t mind getting one of those for simple outings, shopping or cruising in the city
December 22, 2008 @ 11:23 am
not design for road usage one laa…
those on campus or.. google HQ might get one of these for their staff to go to toilet use laa. hehehe
December 22, 2008 @ 1:43 pm
next what? microsoft making supercars? SAP makes a bugatti?
December 22, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
what is this
the future is darkening hahaa
December 22, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
segway on steroid
why dean kamen didnt think of it first?
December 22, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
it will sell, because it’s a LIFESTYLE product.
steve jobs will do an excellent job of marketing it, and people will buy buy buy because they can’t live without it, and they perceive steve job to be a god.
hahaha.
no thank you.
December 23, 2008 @ 2:10 am
soon apple will build LCD tvs…microwaves…etc lol
wonder if this iMo can be controlled using an ipod or iphone…hmmm
December 23, 2008 @ 10:04 am
never ever let computer makers control the car industry, we are already enslaved to microsoft. fuck them.
December 23, 2008 @ 11:30 am
come on htc,make a rival car model as a competitor to iMo.
at least make a joint venture with china fake Apple to market “htc hybrid touch” car as an iMo competitor.
ok,im not a fan of Apple.(i dont own any of their products)
but iMo is another great engineering,they aren’t build for today generation,its for the coming ones.
well,engineering & physics are just a crazy fantasy world for most, for some they challenge that term to innovate and design the future.
“oh humans,we bring you down this and you love it though your grandfather did laugh & deny it when he was as your age” (bible of innovation:every innovation did had the same fate)
December 27, 2008 @ 10:06 am
hehe
apple make moving rice cooker on road~~