Built inside an old rock quarry, the award winning hotel will come complete mole-people waiters
In 2006, Atkin’s Architecture Group won the first prize award for an international design competition with this stunning entry. Set in a spectacular water filled quarry in Songjiang, China, the 400 bed resort hotel is uniquely constructed within the […]

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Pretty soon most of our homes will be built out of Legos
Here is a unique “steam” engine, built out of Legos, powered by a vacuum cleaner. The engine’s top speed is just over 900 RPM. Second video after the jump.
 

 
Making headlines earlier this year for its creation of the world’s cheapest new car, Tata Motors from India is the latest car maker to join the race for the multimillion dollar automotive X PRIZE.

 When you’re no good at playing an instrument, this may be your only option for making music
Put on this outfit, and your whole body turns into a musical instrument. That’s the promise of the Pacer Suit, a design concept that measures electrical impulses of your muscles and turns them into music or sound effects.

One Funky Frog

Biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog, which in a gruesome process, actively breaks its own bones to produce cat-like extendable claws. According to a report in New Scientist, the frog, known as Trichobatrachus robustus, has been described by David Blackburn and colleagues at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
The researchers believe that […]

Contact with your thinking membranes
Most standard office chairs weren’t designed with your total comfort in mind. Most companies throw a few pieces of plastic and cushions together and call it a seat, but what about our aching backs? Years of sitting in a computer chair can cause serious damage.

Analogy is the name of a clock by designer Jesson Yip.
Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a new hybrid format. Presenting an everyday object with a fresh twist.

 
 For people who think robots walking on the floor are too boring
A research organization has developed a new technology that enables some robots to scale walls.
Wall-climbing robots could be a boon for the US military, which could use them on reconnaissance or other missions in war zones, said Philip von Guggenberg, director of business development […]

Grow on you #2
Lucy McRae and Bart Hess are artists working together to create fascinating images of genetic manipulation and beauty.
They describe their work as “instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body.”

18th Century Technology Finally Makes It’s Debut in New York and London
An arresting new artistic landmark is drawing crowds in London and New York, intrigued at being able to wave to each other through what is teasingly presented as a huge Trans Atlantic tunnel.
 

Varying mixtures of aggregate, sand and other binder materials used to create asphalt concrete samples

A great deal of effort is being invested towards discovering ways to make our world greener, with cars in particular being the focus of research and development initiatives. But what about the green credentials of the millions of miles of roads […]

If you don’t take care of your plant, your plant will report you to the plant cops
Growing plants would be a lot easier if plants could show you what they need. That’s what the Pet Plant by Junyi Heo does. The very sleek looking pot measures soil conditions, temperature, humidity, and water - calculates […]

 Even though virtual worlds are a fun place to hang out, they’re still not and effective business tool
New research from Gartner finds that nine out of 10 corporate attempts to use virtual worlds fail within the first 18 months. Virtual worlds could still play a vital role, however, in the future.

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Possibles sources of lead poisoning
In what may be the strongest link yet between lead exposure and crime rates, researchers at the University of Cincinnati on Tuesday released new evidence, spanning more than 20 years, that draws a direct relationship between the amount of lead in a child’s blood and the likelihood he or she will […]