Thudda | Ultimate Masti: April 2009

Joke | Sardarji Bought a green TV

Joke | Sardarji Going to buy a computer

Sardarji Birth Certificate Joke

The Life Aquatic Nissan

The NV200 concept is Nissan’s imaginative take on the seemingly evergreen ‘functional box’ design brief as a means to riff on the next generation of light commercial vehicle.

Ready to hit Tokyo with its tasty mix of utility and high-end styling, the NV200’s instant wow item is the storage area that conspicuously slides from the rear of the van. In the show car iteration, the storage area is filled with the tools of the trade for an ocean photographer (natch), replete with flipper cubbies and an editing desk.

The sliding rear compartment is designed to be customizable, housing a pod that can be changed as the needs of the owner shift. Mix and match trays and boxes can be arranged to suit any number of profession specific equipment.

Calling the exterior styling “substantial” and “rugged-looking” Nissan may be overlooking the sense of whimsy evoked by their forward looking van. Lego brick wheels and a floral theme (similar to styling on Citroen’s C-Cactus) add visual interest, without seeming especially substantial to us. Inside the NV, Nissan has created a rather elegant space, using the flashy green tones sparingly in concert with a rich wooden floor, and nicely simple seating.

Better than the light commercial vans of today perhaps, but how far can the interchangeable “pod” concept be taken? Weigh in with ‘comments’.

Some Amazing Facts

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his Wife or mother because they were both deaf.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
China has more English speakers than the United States
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turi-Pukakpikima ungahoronukupoka iwhenuakitanatahu- a New Zealand hill
If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.