Marangoni Soap Bubble Car

[revealed: July 5, 2009]

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(aka The Clean Machine)

Bringing a whole new meaning to the term “cleaner emissions”, the Soap Bubble Car was the brainchild of wealthy research chemist (with an obsessive compulsive disorder for cleanliness) Serge Marangoni. His discovery of complex chemical compounds resulted in fluids with astonishingly high surface tension, easily strong enough to support the weight of a man. (In fact it was widely reported that one of his assistants remains trapped in a large soap bubble to this day. Dead, but very, very clean).

Here we see Marangoni himself, in his trademark trilby hat and raincoat, test driving an early prototype bubble car. Locomotion and steering is achieved by cunning deployment of airstreams into the four drive “wheels”, which cause them to rotate (for forward / reverse) and change size (to cause turning left or right).

Useful side-effects of bubble technology include the fact that the entire vehicle acts as an airbag in the event of a collision, and that it never needs to be washed.

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6 Responses to “Marangoni Soap Bubble Car”

  1. On July 6th, 2009 at 2:45 am mouser said:

    “Locomotion and steering is achieved by cunning deployment of airstreams into the four drive “wheels”, which cause them to rotate (for forward / reverse) and change size (to cause turning left or right).”

    oh hell that is so cool.

  2. On July 6th, 2009 at 1:06 pm p3lb0x said:

    I wonder what other applications he has found for this amazing fluid technology

  3. On July 8th, 2009 at 3:21 pm admin said:

    Hmm, good point. I’m sure the bubble car was only the beginning of what he invented…

  4. On July 12th, 2009 at 9:45 pm Comme une image said:

    I have a compassionate thought for the late assistant and ask to myself : how did Marangoni manage to get in and out this vehicule ?

  5. On July 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm Rajnish said:

    Very nice.. Can i Get the more examples tooooo..

  6. On July 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm admin said:

    Not entirely sure how Marangoni got into the vehicle but I can think of a couple of ways:

    1. The bubbles form around the driver and engine after the vehicle is turned on.

    2. Marangoni used a careful method of breaking the surface of the bubble and slipped through that, but I think the above method is more likely.