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Month: October 2013

Dino-Lanterns: Multi-Pumpkin Carving Exhibit Goes Jurassic

A landscape of towering dinosaurs is eerily illuminated with an orange glow at the annual Great Jack O' Lantern Blaze in New York. A team of professional artists came together to turn more than ...

Tactile Technology: 13 Off-Screen Touch Input Inventions

Touch input has already almost entirely eliminated the need for physical keyboards and mouses, but soon, it won't even be confined to a screen. Researchers are developing systems that can ...

Weightless Space: Ghostly Floating Room Hovers in Midair

A fantastic feat of architectural trickery, this anti-gravity ante-room installation appears to hover in thin air and open up into nothingness. It sports a single point of contact with the ground ...

Dark Tower: Decay Inside Africa’s Tallest Apartment Complex

Before a long descent into darkness, the cylindrical Ponte City Apartments began life as a luxurious tribute to growth and wealth in Johannesburg , filled with envy-worthy units looking out in ...

Invisible Skyway: Urban Optical Illusions Conceal & Distort

New Zealand artist, illusionist and urbanist Mark Hewson has a good many tricks up his sleeve involving spatial deception, convincing citizens there is less (or more) to their city than can ...

One-of-a-Kind Dollhouses Designed by 20 Famous Architects

Some of the world's best and brightest architects and designers, including Zaha Hadid, have come together to create a series of unique custom dollhouses to be auctioned for a disabled children's ...

Amazon Biosphere: Retailer Gets Glass Dome Headquarters

How much more creative could you be if you were working in a stunning faceted glass dome every day? Some lucky Amazon workers will get to find out, as the City of Seattle's design panel has ...

Glow in the Dark World: 12 Smart Illuminated Inventions

Glow in the dark tech doesn't have to be limited to novelties like glow sticks - it could be used to make the roads safer, provide illumination without the need for electricity, and allow surfers ...

Details & Diagrams: $1,000 IKEA Flat-Pack Refugee Shelter

Emergency shelters are designed to be short-term solutions, and many cannot withstand rain, wind and sun for more than six months. Yet the average stay in refugee camp is over twenty times that ...

Retro Rockets: 9 Outrageous Roadgoing Spaceships

As the Space Age rocked, rolled and rocketed into pop culture, fantastic one-off wheeled wonders embarked upon a more prosaic mission: launching new products. ...

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