Street Smart: Solar Roadway Lights Up & Feeds Power Grid
Currently in crowdfunding, these hexagonal pavers can provide energy, melt accumulated snow and ice, light up with LEDs, all while being tough enough to support trucks weighing 250,000 ...
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The Bus Stops Here: 7 Transit Shelters by Famous Architects
Trading a free vacation for their design input, a series of world-renowned designers each contributed their vision of a bus shelter to a tiny town of just 1,000 residents in ...
Tiny Frank Lloyd Wright-Inspired House Atop Miner’s Ruins
Gleaming glass, oxidized steel and matte black wood contrast with the rough concrete ruins of an old miner's shelter found in the desert near Scottsdale, Arizona. 'Miner's Shelter' was designed and ...
A Different Angle: 15 Great Geometric Home Accessories
Bring the clean, graphic lines of cubes, pyramids, prisms and other polyhedrons to your home with these (often literally) sharp accessories. Hand-drawn shapes on wallpaper, icosahedron salt and ...
Mini Book of Major Events: Whole World History in Your Hand
In a handful of pages in a book the size of a fingernail, this book artist tells a minimalist story of life on Earth, illustrating pivotal moments with brief text and tiny ...
Tuned Out: 11 Off-The-Air & Abandoned Radio Stations
Don't touch that dial or pause for station identification, these eleven decrepit, decommissioned and DJ-less radio stations have signed off forever. ...
Broken Mirror: Shard Hotel Views Reflect Next-Door Rooms
Splintered corners, giving The Shard in London its iconic multifaceted look, are now also responsible for letting guests of Europe's tallest hotel see into the spaces of their nighttime ...
Get Your Virtual Wings: Oculus Rift Machine Simulates Flight
Feel the wind on your face and smell the pine sap of the forest as you gaze down at the scenery far below - without ever leaving the ground. 'Birdly' is a new machine developed by the Zurich ...
Urban X-Stitch: Street Artist Cross-Stitches Yarn on Fences
Whether you want to call it a new art form or a simply a hipster hobby, an artist France is pushing street-side string art in amusing new directions. Not quite your ...
Real-Life Panopticons: Deserted Dystopian Prisons in Cuba
Imagine life inside a ring of cells around a central watchtower, where you can never be sure whether you are being observed. This surreal setup became an extreme reality under dictator Gerardo ...
