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Privacy made obsolete by Tokyo glass home!
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The Piano House in China
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Personal air transport made easier with the Scorpion Personal Helicopter
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Pipistrel Panthera aircraft flies 400km on electricity alone!
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Gold wedding ring to reveal the time shared between two people
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Gokey -Tuck your keys safely when you are on the run
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Formula D Interactive Card Table recognizes objects placed on it
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Office furniture inspired by Aston Martin
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Scale Scale, the versatile and interactive weighing scale
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iPoo Toilet snugly fits the shape of your butt
Corners always have secrets in store. Seeing around a corner without stepping up and poking your head around isn’t possible to the human eye. So, the geniuses at MIT have come up with a camera that sees around corners! This could pretty much prove to be a boon to the world of inspection a push ahead with a possibility for new technologies. Using ultrafast pulses of laser light that were bounced of walls towards hidden object around corners, researcher Ramesh Raska and his team managed to create this fantastic technology hooked to a camera capable of taking snapshots every two trillionths of a second. Eventually, the group managed to reconstruct 3D images of the hidden objects with a once cm precision!
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The Concorde by the British Airways faced its own share of problems and was eventually plucked out of the air. Now MIT researcher Qiqi Wang, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has come up with a design that could have airplanes breaking the sound barrier, making supersonic commercial flights a rage again. A modified biplane produces less drag than a single wing airliner using less fuel and producing fewer sonic booms at supersonic speeds. Supersonic airliners aren’t allowed to fly over land due to the sonic boom produced which pretty much replicates gunfire. With this development, the two wings cancel out shockwaves produced, resulting in a less-noisy supersonic flight.
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If the Batman’s car was allowed to mate with a race car, here’s what you’d probably end up with. By Nissan, the DeltaWing was sculpted for LeMans and IndyCar tournaments. From the shape and looks of it all, the DeltaWing seems like a race-ready version of the Bat Mobile, and not the one that showed up in the Dark Knight flick. Sporting a 300horsepower engine that’s just about right to take this super light car to breakneck speeds, Nissan’s car drinks a lot less than the conventional racecar, making it somewhat eco-friendly. Also, this car will be shown of at the 24 hours LeMans race soon for the world to have a look at.
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Air-guitaring isn’t all that new. Air drumming however is! This new and fabulous concept we came across aspires to bring forth the latent musician in you. By Guanyun Wang, Ye Tao, Zurui Jiang, Lei Shi, and Yujie Hong, the DrumGenius is in essence a wearable virtual drum kit. All you need to do is wear a set of accelerometers, one on each wrist, and mimic the gesture of playing a drum by moving your hands up and down as the DrumGenius creates sounds and images on a computer in time with your movements! A perfect way to drum away without having to purchase a full-fledged drumkit, this one could help drummers dance around on stage without having to sit rooted to their drumkits during live purformences.
When designer Aaron Busch set about designing a teapot, he decided to cast it in mild steel. The material being to chunky however, Busch soon tossed the steel away for a ceramic teapot instead that looks and feels extraordinary! Called the Tempest Teapot, this concept design showed up on Kickstarter and is currently looking for funding. With a wooden lid, this teapot is a paradigm shift away from the ordinary. Available in white and grey finishes, the Tempest Teapot sports a spout integrated in one of handles, making it a great addition to your kitchen top.
Memories are catacombs and successfully finding your way across and around these take a superhuman effort indeed. So when Subaru decided to help me dig into mine, with the First Car Story initiative, I simply couldn’t resist! It’s been a while now since I first set my hands on the wheel of a car, a hand-me-down silver hatchback. The little car that taught me the legalities of the road and lent me enough experience to make me a street-worthy driver had long since vanished in a web of memoirs. Subaru’s First Car Story on www.firstcarstory.com however brought back those good old days in an overwhelming rush.
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Looking for a perfect way to hit the skies while out at sea? Behold the KiteMarano concept design by designer Antonio Cataldi. Custom built for those who have a soft corner towards adventure sports like kitesurfing, surfing and windsurfing, the KiteMarano yacht combines luxury with thrills. A 35 meter yacht in all essence, this catamaran sports large decks at different levels for you to lie back on and enjoy the waves and the endless skies above. With an open-air Jacuzzi and bar, the KiteMarano catamaran sports all the luxuries you’d look for in a vessel of its type and more!
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Mixing technology with art has been artist Makoto Tojiki’s field of play since a while now, and these astounding sculptures we just came across have taken our breath away. Part of the No Shadow series, these sculptures are made from hanging strands of LED lights. Using lights and shadows to form these 3D sculptures, Tojiki’s artworks are green as ever too, given the fact that they use lower levels of energy. To start off with, Tojiki first studies the body structures of living organisms and their shadows, and then sculpts these beautiful renditions with LED strands.
Gaming mice essentially need to be a paradigm shift away from the ordinary pointer device common folk use to get around the desktop computer. This gaming mouse by Roccat we came across sticks to the schools of design most gaming mice revolve around, complete with the rights cuts and angles, making it a great looker as well as an exceptional performer. The mouse, called the Savu, the optical mouse connects via USB and sports 5 programmable buttons, compatible with Windows. With sensitivity adjustment, this mouse is as ergonomic as it gets and is bound to do well across battlefields or racetracks, as per your gaming fixations.
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Looking for a more fun-filled and thrilling way to die? This rollercoaster ride to hell is probably the best way to go. By designer engineer Julijonas Urbonas who thinks suicides out to be more fun, the Euthanasia Rollercoaster is assured to give you an amusement-park-style sendoff. Basically, this scarily amazing ride takes you through several experiences ranging from euphoria to thrill to tunnel vision to loss of consciousness and finally, to death. Travelling at 100m/s, this rollercoaster ride seems to be a pretty great way to finish off those pesky individuals around you too, without having your hands go bloody!
