Archive for April, 2009
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Tags: Bills, Environment, GREEN, green tech, Green upgrades, Utilities
To combat the Sahara Desert’s ongoing growth, student Magnus Larsson has proposed a 6,000km wall that will be—wait for it—constructed by letting a bacterium have its way with the sand, forming sandstone.
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Tags: Architecture, Bacteria, Desertification, Magnus larsson, proposals, Sahara desert wall
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Tags: Art, graphic design, inspiration, pictures
Cassini’s continued mission
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is now a nearly a year into its extended mission, called Cassini Equinox (after its initial 4-year mission ended in June, 2008). The spacecraft continues to operate in good health, returning amazing images of Saturn, its ring system and moons, and providing new information and science on a regular basis.
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Tags: nasa, SPACE, Photography, cassini, mission
NPR’s Interactive Power Grid Map
An interesting way to see where power is coming from and going to in the USA. There are a collection of ways to view this data.
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Tags: Electricity, energy, GREEN, power, power grid
Cuneus Coffee Concept
Armed with a minimal set of knobs that control coffee output and froth, this (single serving?) coffee maker features a semi-spherical shape that spits in the face of corner-friendly kitchen counter design
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Tags: coffee maker, concept, Design, Kamil, Kamil Kurka, Kurka
A Collection of all the best free photo editing services, which will keep You busy for quite a while and You will receive amazing results – maybe funny, maybe silly – but You’ll get original photos and few more reasons to smile.
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Tags: fun, generator, online, photo, Photography, tools
The street-going version of BMW’s upcoming S 1000 RR is scheduled to debut at the World Superbike race on May 29th at Miller Motorsports Park. That’s exciting news in and of itself, but we’re especially intrigued after hearing that the German manufacturer plans to price the premium machine within spitting distance of its Japanese rivals.
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Ready for the ultimate in convergence overkill? Meet the SmartFaucet from iHouse; a tap with built-in face recognition technology that automatically adjusts the water pressure and temperature to your preferred settings.
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Tags: bathroom, face recognition, faucet, home automation, ihouse, smartfaucet
The Glassy Tank has been designed by Japanese designer, Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei design. The Glassy Tank works with air and water pressure. You don’t have to worry that the liquid will fall from the glass. When emptying the glass, the tank will re-fill it with a constant amount of liquid without flowing over the [...]
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Tags: concept, Design, Glass tank, WINE, wine glass
How many years do we have left if the world consumes at the current rate? How about if we consume at half the current US rate? The answers are sobering.
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Tags: earth, energy, power, resources, sci
The idea of harnessing solar power from space has been around for a while; Asimov included it in at least two of his stories that I remember—but may finally be a reality come 2016.
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Tags: solar, SPACE, california, Solar Power, PG&E, Solar space, Space power, solaren
LCARS desktop for Mac
Pretty nice desktop for all the TNG trekkies out there.
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Tags: Apple, desktop, LCARS, MAC, star trek, tv show, wallpaper
In a world filled with crazy sink designs, the Abisko sink from Eumar just might be the craziest. Seriously, I want to ride this thing.
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Tags: Design, bathroom, sinks, Abisko, Eumar
Susan Boyle from Britain’s Got Talent – 47-year-old Susan has basically become an overnight sensation after she surprised everyone when she opened her mouth and out came a beautiful hummingbird voice singing I Dream a Dream from Les Miserable. I think everybody expected her to have a voice like welder and that’s why everyone almost [...]
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Tags: 2009, american idol, Britains got talent, dream a dream, les miserable, simon cowell, susan boyle, tv, video
It’s Not a TV, It’s a Tati Lamp
Tati Lamp, it’s one of many of Ferruccio Laviani’s designs being shown off during Milan Design Week 09. Completely black when off and white when on, this photo skews the lamp’s scale in an enjoyably preposterous way. In reality, the Tati Lamp doesn’t take up all the space of an old rear projection big screen. [...]
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Tags: Design, FURNITURE, LAMPS, milan design week, Tati lamp
IMO Coffee Maker
Designer Alisson Wilson Ströher’s IMO coffee maker is intended to be a compact, practical solution to household coffee making—but it looks like he picked up aesthetic cues from the HAL exoskeleton.
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Tags: Coffee, coffee maker, concept, Design, Exoskeleton, IMO Coffee Maker
These spectacular photographs, taken from Spaceweather.com, capture the beauty of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis.
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Tags: SPACE, Lights, aurora, photo, BOREALIS, Arctic Circle, sky, sun, star
Surreal Art
Great diverse selection of some really beautiful, imaginative art work, click read more to see more…
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Awesome advertising move by BMW in Santa Monica.
Very clever, BMW!
I’m sorry, but Audi totally set themselves up for that.
But which one is the king though? Will it be the BMW M3 Coupe or the Audi A4? Fair comparison? Probably not, but it’s all fun in the end.
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Tags: ad, advertising, Audi, bmw, california, Car, war
Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile
Lindsay Lohan is newly single and ready to mingle!
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Tags: Celebrity, dating, eHarmony, Entertainment, Funny, Lindsay Lohan, spoof, video
Creating spectacular Abstract effects using Photoshop Brushes is something always exciting and innovative.
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Tags: adobe, Art, brush, Design, photoshop, software
Wallpapers collection
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The surprising math behind annoying peoples.
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