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The H2GO RC racer with fuel-cell power plant -- a panacea?
The achilles heel of RC racers has always been the battery. A few minutes of play after hours of charging is no way to waste the sacred years of youth -- we have video games for that. Now this race fans, the H2GO racer fueled by hydrogen cartridges from Horizon Fuel Cell. Produced by Corgi International, the clean running H2GO is designed by the slightly mad, Red White Barron of design -- Luigi Colani -- and ships with a water refueling station, solar panel, and remote control. Details are otherwise frustratingly scarce. Though we can assume that the car features water-activated HydroPak Mini prototype cells and will easily cost a couple of Benjamins by the time it goes production. Unfortunately, that would be sometime in late 2008 or 2009 based on Horizon Fuel Cell's earlier estimates of commercial fuel cell availability. Oh, the agony.
Luigi Colani at CeBIT -- oh, and his AnyFix charger too
As if in a dream, we casually ran into the (slightly) mad professor of design himself, Luigi Colani right here at CeBIT. So cool, so chilled, just flirting with the girls while he signed autographs. "I like the Chinese girls," he joked as he pulled an impressionable Industrial design lady-student in for a cuddle photo. Yeah, his AnyFix universal cellphone charger was on hand as well. Looking every bit the product you'd expect from the man. As we thought, it does indeed possess the smarts to detect the needs of some 80% of the mobile phones in use here in Europe and then apply the appropriate level of juice. Just like the man himself, effusing just the right amount of charisma to woo the (mostly) bewildered onlookers into his den for a closer look. Get a feel for it in the gallery below.%Gallery-2145%
Colani's AnyFix: the world's first cellphone charging beetle
This certainly isn't the first product we've seen from legendary designer Luigi Colani. This time however, we've got the AnyFix which Colani calls the "world's first universal mobile phone charger" -- "universal" as in compatible with 80% of the phones on the European market; "world's first" (there are others) as in the world's first charger shaped like a Dytiscus Marginalis insect. Just dial-up the appropriate adapter and insert your phone into the waiting arms of the great diving beetle. Then, presumably, the AnyFix will scan and charge your phone at the appropriate power level for your phone's battery. Details are still a bit scant here but it'lll be on display at CeBIT later this week where we hope to get up close and personal with the man and his mustache charger.
