Devaux Cars

David Clash a graduate of RMIT – Industrial Design makes these cars!

Diabetes Service Model

I have made two maps to illustrate the Service Model for Diabetes Care. One is the OVERVIEW – picture of the parts of the service, namely the service system (registration, subscription etc), the care system and the product system and the other is the ‘functions’ or the list of expertise that are included in the [...]

Annual reductions of 30 million car trips – Perth

“Urban planning, public transport and
cultural change are critical, not knocking a cent or two off the
petrol price.”

Overcoming car culture a bit like waiting for Godot – Adele Horin – Opinion
MacTiernan has almost doubled the size of the Perth railway network in seven years. Her crowning glory is the 72-kilometre Perth-Mandurah rail link through Australia’s fastest-growing [...]

Mini Rickshaw

Autopia – Wired Blogs
Mini had the body shipped from Germany to Hong Kong, where it was made into rickshaws to publicize the company’s decision to sell the Clubman in China. The work is said to be top-notch, with a moon roof, leather seats and gold dragons.

The DotCar

Gearing Up for the .Car Era | Autopia from Wired.com
Gadgets such as computers and cellphones demand your full attention, McCormick says, “but the automobile is the complete antitheses of that. We want to understand what the content will be and how to make it so it’s not distracting. So while I can’t be watching a [...]

Computer power in cars

Microsoft Moves Closer to Dominating Your Dashboard | Autopia from Wired.com
Ford’s Microsoft-powered Sync system has been a huge hit with car buyers and the one bit of sunshine in the Blue Oval’s gloomy outlook. But with the automaker’s exclusive deal with Microsoft winding down, the software giant has signed a deal with Hyundai and [...]

Automotive 2020: Clarity beyond the chaos

IBM – Automotive 2020: Clarity beyond the chaos – IBM Institute for Business Value studies
The automotive ecosystem is in the midst of significant change, with increasing challenges in consumer demands, technology development, globalization, integration and collaboration. A new era is rapidly approaching in which the very definition of personal mobility will change. Multi-modal transportation will [...]

China Rising

With China Rising, Detroit Needs Engineers ASAP | Autopia from Wired.com
Hanifin says there are 10 times as many budding engineers in China, where 45 percent or more of university students pursue degrees in that field.

Botany, Ballet and Dinner from scratch

Interview with city-dwelling locavore Leda Meredith after a year of eating local — Plenty Magazine
Last August, Leda Meredith stopped eating bananas. And lemons, chocolate, soy sauce, and avocadoes. On the day after her 45 birthday, she started “the 250,” a year-long experiment in eating foods grown within a 250-mile radius of her Brooklyn apartment. Thus [...]