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Month: May 2016

Street Smart: Theft-Proof Bike Comes With Recovery Service Guarantee

Even the strongest bike locks aren’t totally foolproof, but when locks fail or risky storage options don’t pay off, the makers of this smart bike will send a recovery team after your ride. ...

Rainbow Connection: Huge Mural Spans 200 Houses on Hillside in Mexico

Representing an enormous collective effort, this remarkable mural manages to look complete from a distance while, upon closer inspection, brightening 209 houses occupied by 452 families, ...

Terrapattern: Satellite Image Search Engine Matches Similar Places

A powerful tool for artists, designers and researchers, Terrapattern lets users seek out similar-looking locations from an aerial perspective, finding connections and patterns between disparate ...

Fresh & Modern Showcase: 15 Strikingly Beautiful Geometric Home Designs

These real-life residences go beyond the cool-looking-concept phase to prove how diverse, innovative and unexpected houses can be when architects tailor each one to specific needs and ...

Pier 55 Park: Undulating Landscape to Hover Over Hudson River in NYC

Following the success of the hovering High Line, an elevated park set on re-purposed rail tracks, New York City aims to pull off another park space in an unused space, this time at Pier 55 ...

We Are Not Amused: 15 Creepy Abandoned Theme Parks

Once delightful domains of sight and sound, these creepy abandoned theme parks now moulder away in silence attended only by shadows and memories. ...

Lane-Spanning Airbus to Drive Right Over Car Traffic in China

A Chinese transportation company behind a lane-straddling bus design (which passes over lanes rather than occupying them) is moving from scale to full-sized test models this summer. The plan is ...

Missing Pyramid: Louvre Installation Makes Iconic Monument Disappear

In a work of large-scale urban camouflage, French street artist JR has made the iconic glass pyramid standing outside the Musée du Louvre disappear. At least, it seems to disappear, when viewed ...

World’s First 3D-Printed Office Building Unveiled in Dubai

Printed layer by layer from the ground up using a special cement mixture, this rapidly-produced curvilinear structure is a functional example as well as proof of concept, illustrating the ...

Minimalist Tattoos: Elegant Body Art Drawn With Just One Line

Tattoos are generally lauded for their intricacy and complexity, but these bold, beautiful and simple alternatives become artfully different thanks to a simple trick: the use of a single ...

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