{"id":35990,"date":"2020-01-10T19:07:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35990"},"modified":"2020-01-10T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T19:07:04","slug":"mercedes-benz-unveils-an-avatar-themed-concept-car-with-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35990","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz unveils an Avatar-themed concept car with scales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mercedes-Benz has just drew the wraps off of a wild brand-new hypothesi auto that was inspired by the 2009 movie Avatar called — what else? — the Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR. Designed with help from Avatar director James Cameron, this vehicle is not the sequel that Cameron has promised. Instead, the AVTR concept car is a mix of everything that the Consumer Electronics Show is known for: preposterous styling, far-off future tech, and a tie-in with a major entertainment property. Oh, and it has magnitudes! <\/p>\n

Yes, the entire rear end of the AVTR is covered in 33 discrete magnitudes — or as Mercedes-Benz calls them, “bionic flaps” — that the company says could be used to communicate with people outside the car. It also has special spherical wheels that…<\/p>\n

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Mercedes-Benz has just drew the wraps off of a wild brand-new hypothesi auto that was inspired by the 2009 movie Avatar called — what else? — the Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR. Designed with help from Avatar director James Cameron, this vehicle is not the sequel that Cameron has promised. Instead, the AVTR concept car is a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1909,20566,20565,12718,19130,17031,15805,18234,20567,15749],"class_list":["post-35990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-avatar","tag-avtr","tag-benz","tag-calls","tag-cameron","tag-concept","tag-mdash","tag-mercedes","tag-scales","tag-them"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/mercedes_vision_avtr_04781578683225.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}