Do Look Up: 14 Dazzling Modern Ceiling Designs
At one restaurant in Berlin, you might spend more time gazing up in wonder at an undulating ceiling installation made from over 14,000 chopsticks than you do at your dining companion. Ceilings ...
Month: August 2015
X-Ray Urbanism: Laser Scans Record & Reveal Sub-City Spaces
Produced from over 200 laser scans, this remarkable 3D representation covers surface features as well as subterranean spaces of it's London subject, captured and stored as a series of over 10 ...
Sweet Dreams: Nightmare Robots Replace Hotel Employees
In this edition of ‘Androids Are After Our Jobs,’ a Japanese hotel replaces all of its front desk clerks, porters and other employees with robots, including a hairy nightmare dinosaur wearing ...
Visionary Inventions: 13 Bold Designs for the Blind
Those of us who aren't visually impaired take for granted simple everyday actions like navigating unfamiliar places, reading bus schedules, telling the time or distinguishing between spices when ...
Density Sensor: Real-Time Data Shows Which Places are Packed
Online reviews indicate how popular your favorite place is in general, but cannot tell you whether now is a good time to drop by or if you may be stuck in a crowd or waiting in line - this is ...
Commuter Glitch: 15 Abandoned Bus Stops & Shelters
Bus routes often change so why are so many bus stops built to last? These 15 abandoned bus stops are prime examples of non-transient transit infrastructure. ...
Soylent 3.0: 100K Sq Ft Warehouse Could Feed 4 Million People
The first generation of Soylent is a powdered food substitute for all your nutritional needs, the second will be a premixed beverage boasting the addition of algae, but the ultimate target is ...
Absolut Brilliance: Vodka Shipping Containers to Workspaces
Four bright blue shipping containers formerly used to transport Absolut vodka have become ‘Creative Space,’ a versatile series of workspaces at the company’s headquarters in Åhus, ...
Back From the Future: Working Hoverboard Surfs Water & Rails
Pro skaters pull tricks on (and beyond) the pavement on this real-life hoverboard - at a distance, one might mistake their rides for normal skateboards, except for the steam from liquid nitrogen ...
Snow Cover: Subterranean Museum Pierces Alpine Mountain Peak
Buried within a mountaintop nearly 7,500 feet above sea level, this remarkable semi-subterranean mountaineering museum, designed for a unique client - the first man to scale Everest without ...
