Privacy is the new luxury.
DYSON
Sphere
New York · Milan · Hong Kong
01 · The setting
2049
Not fantasy. The world we already live in — twenty years closer.
- Perpetual rain
- Acid sky, smog, sun rarely visible.
- Neon saturation
- Holographic ads as physical air.
- Corporate infra
- Mobility and identity run by private fleets.
- Spinners as norm
- Authority owns the airspace by default.
Sphere is what privacy looks like when there is nowhere to hide.
02 · Class — vehicle type
Spinner class
A vehicle borrowed from the world it belongs to. In 2049, spinners are the city's vertical default — police, corporate, authority. The Sphere takes the same chassis logic and gives it back to the citizen.
- Propulsion
- Hybrid VTOL · in-wheel ground drive
- Range
- Ground for short. Air for cross-city.
- Capacity
- 3 to 4 seats. Sealed glass bubble.
- Control
- Fully autonomous · fleet-managed
03 · Why
The convenience in 2049 creates
permanent exposure.
Shared mobility is becoming frictionless. AI agents manage calendars, book transport, plan routes, optimize behavior. Vehicles join the city as moving sensors — every trip logged, every voice potentially heard, every preference monetized.
04 · The shift
Luxury is no longer what you own.
It is what no one can access.
Yesterday
- Leather
- Chrome
- Horsepower
- Status
- Visibility
Today
- Silence
- Time
- Autonomy
- Invisibility
- Emotional safety
05 · Persona
Sofia
28
- Work
- AI tester
- Mobility
- Rents, no vehicle
- Pains
- Always reachable. Never truly off. Feed-fatigued. Tired of being a data point.
- Needs
- A pause between meetings. A moment with no notifications, no audience.
06 · Form
A blind spot
of the city.
The form references two physical concepts at once. A Dyson Sphere — a shell that fully encloses a star and captures everything it emits. And a black hole — a region from which no information escapes. Inside, the user is fully surrounded. Outside, the spinner returns nothing.
- Monolithic
- No graphics, no badging, no face.
- Absorbent
- Surface that takes light, never reflects.
- Seamless
- Continuous skin, no readable joints.
- Silent
- Visually disappears into the urban grain.
07 · Cities
Three 2049 cities.
One shared exhaustion.
08 · Concept research
Setting the mood.
09 · Concept creation
A bubble of protection.
Identifying the main design lines.
10 · Final design
The sphere.
11 · How
Connected by default.
Private by choice.
City as a network.
- Calendar
- Synced with your calendar
- Routing
- Optimized routing across the fleet
- Occupancy
- Pooled with other passengers
- Mode
- Standard mobility pod efficiency
Out of the network.
- Data
- External data channels disabled
- Compute
- Local compute only — nothing leaves
- Sensors
- Cameras and microphones deactivated
- Glass
- Darkens, route is not stored