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Swim BIG: Artificial Island Supports World’s Largest Saltwater Pool Complex

Now open on the edge of Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, the Harbor Bath project features a main 150-foot-long pool as well as diving and children's pools, plus a pair of saunas. Naturally, ...

Chinese City to Replace Street Lights with Orbiting Artificial Moon by 2020

Within two years, the city of Chengdu aims to swap out its ground-based street lighting with the soft glow of an artificial moon, casting light across 50 square miles of the urban ...

Dream Deep: Trippy Maps Reenvisioned by Google’s Artificial Neural Network

FaceApp and similar reality-warping applications are especially fun to use in ways their designers never intended. Along similar lines, Google's DeepDream (designed for photo manipulation) ...

Cyberpunk Sunset: Artificial Sun Lights Up Warsaw Skyscraper

The developers behind a new tower rising in downtown Warsaw, Poland, have added a sunny surprise to the side of the building, aiming to brighten the moods of citizens during dark and cold months ...

Last Stop: 2,800 Drowned NYC Subway Cars Turned Marine Habitats

Since the early 2000s, decommissioned New York City subway cars have been seeded into the waters around New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and other eastern states, creating infrastructure for fish ...

New Artificial Lighting Tricks Human Brain into Seeing Sunlight

Access to natural daylight has long been one of the biggest limiting factors in building design - some solutions involve reflecting real daylight from the outdoors, but until now no solution has ...

Exo-Prosthetics: Light, Cheap & Custom 3D-Printed Body Parts

Lightweight, individualized and inexpensive, this design and manufacturing strategy bends artificial limbs in new directions and promises a more personalized product for those in need of a ...

Dress Down: Wild Women’s Dresses Made of Trash, Trees & More

State of Dress is part fashion, part art and part personal mission, an attempt to capture the essence of all fifty States in the US through a series of site-specific dress designs tailored to ...

Architecture as Landscape: 15 Terrain-Inspired Buildings

These skyscrapers, homes and city concepts eschew typical architectural silhouettes, taking inspiration from cliffs, mountains and hills to create artificial landscape features of their own. ...

3D-Printed Prosthesis: Custom Casts & Artificial Limb Covers

Customization has long been a limiting factor in certain aspects of medical practice, particularly those centering around damaged or lost limbs  creating different person-specific needs. 3D ...

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