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27 Incredible Views You’d Only See If You Were A Bird

Andrew J. Blanche - March 2, 2014 - 0 Comments

1. Bern, Switzerland 2. Mount Reinebringen, Norway 3. Vancouver, British Columbia 4. Nördlingen, Germany 5. Sydney, Australia 6. Vatican City, Rome 7. Island in the Maldives 8. Moscow, Russia 9. Orange County, Florida 10. Barcelona, Spain 11. Amsterdam, Netherlands 12. Shanghai, China 13. San Francisco, California 14. Chicago, Illinois 15. Athens, Greece 16. Turin, Italy 17. New York City, N.Y. 18. Dubai, United Arab Emirates 19. Mogadishu, Somalia 20. Cape Town, South...

MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch

Andrew J. Blanche - January 30, 2014 - 0 Comments

The tangible media group at mit’s media lab has unveiled a futuristic display made of atoms, not pixels. We live in an age of touch-screen interfaces, but what will the UIs of the future look like? Will they continue to be made up of ghostly pixels, or will they be...

New Battery Design Could Help Solar And Wind Power The Grid

Andrew J. Blanche - January 27, 2014 - 0 Comments

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid. “For solar and wind power to be used in a significant way, we need...

The Kaufmann Residence – House Designed in 1935

Andrew J. Blanche - January 26, 2014 - 0 Comments

The Kaufmann Residence — more commonly known as Fallingwater — is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Located in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, the home was built partially over a waterfall and was hailed by Time magazine as Wright’s most beautiful work. Fallingwater was designated a National Historica Landmark in...

Easy Drafting Pen Concept

Andrew J. Blanche - January 24, 2014 - 0 Comments

If you have ever drafted by hand for work or pleasure, you know that straight lines are hard to sketch or trace by pen or pencil without something as your guide – and laying down the ruler, triangle or square each time takes, well, time. What if you could just...

Bergmonch Folding Bike Pack

Andrew J. Blanche - January 23, 2014 - 0 Comments

There’s nothing quite like a bike ride down some rugged terrain, but the way up can be a completely different story. Having to carry a bike up during your climb can be quite the nuisance, and the Folding Backpack Bicycle is here to solve that problem. This incredible Bergmönch, which...

New Electrical Clothing Can Charge Your Cell Phone

Andrew J. Blanche - January 22, 2014 - 0 Comments

One of the future inventions that could greatly impact our lives are nanoribbons. Rubber films developed by engineers at Princeton University could power mobile devices and other electronic devices. The silicone sheets are embedded with ceramic nanoribbons (piezoelectric ribbons) that generate electricity when flexed, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy....

Google Glass Was Not Enough for the Internet Firm, Here Comes the Google Talking Shoe

Andrew J. Blanche - January 20, 2014 - 0 Comments

Developing Google Glass was not enough for the internet firm, the tech giant has now unveiled a pair of talking shoes. But that does not mean the search giant is planning to get into the sneaker or footwear business. The experiment was designed to highlight its new advertising platform called Art,...

Charge Your Phone With a Cold Beer

Andrew J. Blanche - January 19, 2014 - 0 Comments

The Epiphany One Puck project on Kickstarter is looking to charge up your phone by harnessing the power of hot and cold drinks. The Epiphany One Puck may well be the world’s most awesome coaster. It may also be the most useful. The One Puck doesn’t just protect your coffee...

Enable Talk Gloves

Andrew J. Blanche - January 18, 2014 - 0 Comments

Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone, which then converts the text to spoken words....

Indoor Clouds

Andrew J. Blanche - January 18, 2014 - 0 Comments

That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of...

Awesome Handcrafted Pencil-Art Design

Andrew J. Blanche - January 17, 2014 - 0 Comments

Equipped with a box of pencils and some carving tools, a Hungarian artist known simply as cerkahegyzo manages to produce incredibly detailed miniature sculptures. Each creation is constructed entirely out of its respective pencil, utilizing the wood and lead as its base and body. Cerkahegyzo uses the fine blades of...

This Company Dares You To Crack Its Encryption Software

Andrew J. Blanche - January 13, 2014 - 0 Comments

A decade in the making, this new encryption system is so far unhackable. Virtual Adventures has developed a new form of encryption, and to prove its strength, the company is letting anyone try to crack it. Developed 10 years ago as part of a video game, Vase Software’s original purpose...

Construction of an Incredible Underground Hotel in Songjiang Begins

Andrew J. Blanche - January 12, 2014 - 0 Comments

A few years ago, British engineering firm Atkins won the rights to design an extravagant hotel deep within a 100-metre pit in Shanghai’s Songjiang District near the base of Tianmashan Mountain. Construction on the Intercontinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland finally commenced last month, and the hotel is scheduled to open in...

Luminous Fiber Optics Bed Cover

Andrew J. Blanche - January 11, 2014 - 0 Comments

Here is one way to add a little futuristic style to your lackluster bedroom–introduce a little fiber optic lighting technology to jazz up your bed. It’s an electric blanket of sorts, but instead of giving you a little warmth when you need it, this blanket emits a little luminescence. It...