Japanese Security System Co. was looking for something exceptional when it asked to the worldwide-known designer Chicara Nagata to create a new impressive security camera, but the result is even more shocking.
What I’m going to briefly describe you here is something purely amazing, outside the borders of a simple new concept of security camera. Its name is 1966 P25 Security Camera Motorcycle, from the Honda model that Nagata decided to recreate, and it’s a custom motorcycle that is equally at home, in a museum, a store, a shop, a busy roadway, or a kitsch hotel; and all while fulfilling the security and safety purposes originally intended by the project.
The design model is fully-drivable and boasts a high-definition autofocus 1920x1080 pixel camera. The HD autofocus camera is state-of-the-art, featuring Sony 1/2.8” 2 megapixel CMOS for greater video resolution, a 3.5-16mm lens, and a viewing angle that is 20.8-75.4 horizontal, 15.7-54.9 vertical. The camera’s dimensions essentially allow it to function as the structural skeleton of the bike, the handlebar and seat being affixed to its exterior frame.
Minimalism and “eye-catching” are the appropriate adjectives to describe the red and black motorcycle that characterize itself with its lustrous, unified gloss upper structure, where the majority of the P25 is occupied by the two sets of 23” classic rims and tires that scream custom, vintage, retro-modern, and eye-catcher all in the same breath.
Nagata is the first and foremost an artist, and the contract that asked him to install a security camera into a motorcycle was a challenge to his artistic talent that catapulted the fruits of his labor into the spotlight of cutting-edge innovation and engineering virtuosity.
June 13, 2014
Shenkar
Pforzheim University
Central Saint Martins
Harrington College of Design
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