Small Apple Dish by D-Vision
D-Vision created the Small Apple Dish to aesthetically incorporate your apple core when you are done with it. By creating an appropriate place in the dish, your fruit waste becomes an aesthetic part of your meal.
Lightmark Photos by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke
Lightmark is a fantastic site that contains an amazing display photographs by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke. The duo took long exposures of lights to create some amazing effects.
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New Museum of Modern Arab Art by Rafael Viñoly Architects
This new museum is designed by New York based architects Rafael Viñoly for the Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar, will be completed by 2011. It encompasses approximately 33,000 square meters of gallery space, library, public areas, maintenance, dining, storage and support areas.
This building is one of only a few in the world designed using a canvas-like material. This project presented many engineering challenges, including the design of an air conditioning system that can maintain proper temperature and humidity to preserve sensitive artwork and manuscripts.
AirKick® Water
The AirKick® Water is a water powered catapult for people. The passenger sits in the AirKick and then presses a button when they are ready to fly. 60 liters of water are then forced through a rocket nozzle under the seat which will launch people distances as far as 26 feet.
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Next Generation House by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Next Generation House created by Sou Fujimoto Architects is a small housing module for weekend use, located on the edge of a forest overlooking the River Kuma at Kumakura, opposite the temple of Shibatatehime.
The Greenbird Wind-Powered Vehicle
Nine years ago on March 20th 1999, Bob Schumacher set the wind powered land-speed record in a boat called the Iron Duck, “sailing” at blistering pace of 116.7 mph. This August / September, Dale Vince (Ecotricity Founder & MD) and engineer Richard Jenkins (founder/designer/engineer of the Windjet Project), hope to catch the right breeze and make history in their sleek wind-powered vehicle, the Greenbird.
Garden Apartment by Gianni Botsford Architects
This Garden Apartment was created by Gianni Botsford Architects combining the top two floors of a wide-fronted Victorian villa in Notting Hill.
How to create a garden/outside space where planning constraints would not allow a roof terrace or balcony, was the dilemma. The answer came in the form of a central, enclosed garden of three levels that sits within the building, surrounded by the living spaces.
Designed as an atrium, with a giant opening skylight, the 7 m by 2.5 m space is planted on the lowest “living” level; it includes a swing above; before breaking out onto a roof terrace. The space brings the outside in – a garden ascending through the house.
Unstable by Raphael Morgan
Rafael Morgan’s UnsTable gives the illusion that this piece of furniture is about to fall down but in reality, each of the legs conceals a fixed metal bar, covered by movable cubes.
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Rincon 5 by Marmol Radziner
Marmol Radziner revealed their new 660 square foot unit Rincon 5 prefab. The clean-lined guest unit features an excellent set of sustainable features including LED lighting, recycled insulation, and bamboo flooring, plus it can function completely off-grid with an optional solar panel package.
Mirror Ball Light by Dann Spann
This really original mirror light from the Coroflot portfolio is created by Dann Spann.
Classroom of the Future by Gollifer Langston Architects
Gollifer Langston Architects, winner of the RIBA Awards 2007, is an architectural studio for commercial, education, arts, media, residential and public design. The proposal for the Classroom of the Future was to create a prototype highly ICT resourced demountable “clip-on” classroom for use throughout Camden to optimize investment and availability to a wide group of school children.
It is now a fully transportable space that provides music and film making facilities to secondary children in Camden. The classroom arrives onsite as an enclosed box. Computer control systems activate hydraulic legs that position the container onto the ground, and allow sections of the wall and roof to expand and open.
The Elephant Earpick Cell Phone Strap
In Japan, regularly cleaning your ears is an essential habit of personal hygiene, as important as brushing ones hair and teeth. Some maid cafes even offer ear cleaning as one of their featured services.
The “Elephone” for want of a better word, has an anti-bacterial coating and features a clear plastic cover that screws onto the base of the earpick trunk. An integral phone strap allows you to attach the charm to your cell phone, provided it’s of the Japanese style that has a case grommet.
Link Via [Inventorspot]
Kawa by Karim Rashid
These dynamic and highly unusual bathroom faucets are designed by Karim Rashid for Cisal . His Kawa collection of bathroom faucets is made with the minimalist design.
Amalia House by GRID Architects
Amilia is the first artificial grass camouflage building in Austria, designed by GRID Architects.The material was chosen to pay homage to the surrounding green hills of the Austrian countryside.
Its organized in 2 levels, one of these opens up & lets the landscape float in and maximize the interchange between inside and outside, the house is completely covered with artificial grass -with only the windows left out.
Inflatable Church on the Beach
Sun worshipers in Italy who do not want to change out of their swim wear and flip flops can now attend services at an inflatable church on the beach.
Snake Slithers Into Reporters Pants
KCCI-TV Meteorologist Kurtis Gertz got quite a surprise during a live broadcast from the Iowa State Fair on Thursday when a snake slithered up his pants.
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Kids House by Studiomama
The kids house created by Nina Tolstrup was build as an intriguing and playful structure that both could serve as a sleeping space or playhouse.
Employee Bathing in Sink at Burger King
A four-minute video posted on MySpace.com captured the employee, self-described as Mr. Unstable, bathing nude in a large stainless steel sink as several other employees and a store manager looked on.
