One of the main features of Tesla’s Cybertruck, the car Elon Musk unveiled in Los Angeles last November, is the reinforced steel the company’s using for the car’s “exoskeleton”. The reinforced material, originally made to be used on SpaceX rockets, is so hard that you can’t mold it into curved shapes, as proven by the uncanny angular design of the Cybertruck. If Tesla has been able to bend it (pun intended) to its will to make a car with it, though, wouldn’t it be possible to use it for other everyday objects as well? YankoDesign has come up with some interesting suggestions, from which we’ve picked six that look cool and, frankly, wouldn’t be too too much of a stretch for someone like Elon Musk—the guy who made and actually sold a flamethrower and called it “Not a flamethrower”.
Six possible projects inspired by Tesla Cybertruck
With a little imagination, the hardened and bullet-proof alloy used for Tesla’s truck could come in handy to make some everyday objects and materials a bit more resistant: here’s some suggestions.
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- Andrea Nepori
- 17 January 2020
Why park your Cybertruck in an old school garage, when you can have your own apocalypse-proof desert compound built with construction-grade cybersteel?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a smartphone that cracks the surface it falls into, instead of the other way around?
Umbrellas are weird objects: they’ve been basically the same for so many years, and still they break so easily. It’s definitely time for an Elon Musk redesign.
Another application of Cybertruck’s steel could be protective gear and equipment. Like this cyber-hat, which could defend the future worker’s head from a sledge-hammer hit and the risk of stray 9mm bullets. We supposed they both will be common occurences in the dystopic future the Cybertruck is made for.
This would go along well with the Boring Company’s flamethrower. It would also be the only sledgehammer that could dent a Cybertruck—or the aforementioned cyberhat, by that measure.
Ok, these would be just an extremely cool complement for any Cybertruck owner. Tesla would sell them like hotcakes.