No More Worries Parents, The Internet Is Good For Teens
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation.
“It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether [...]

 Scotsman Beverage System
 OK, I don’t believe in magic, but I’m not quite sure what I’m seeing here. This new device from Scotsman Beverage Systems fills glasses from the bottom up. How? I have no idea! It drops the ice in from the top, then the soda or the beer or whatever somehow enters from the [...]

 
Suspension Cables Shot By A Rocket
A big head-scratcher when building a suspension bridge is how to get those suspension cables from one end of the divide to the other. In the past, helicopters and boats have been employed for this purpose – even kites – but Chinese engineers constructing the Siduhe Grand Bridge had another [...]

 
Home Chare
For the disabled or the infirm, there are a large number of expensive pieces of equipment to help you get around and live your day to day life. There’s the wheelchair, the stair climber and the sick bed, all of which involve moving from one to the other. The Home Chare, however, combines all [...]

 
Banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the U.S. by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a new study.

 
Boom Bench 
We have earlier introduced you to the best multimedia chairs that audiophiles would love to sit on. Now, we have a bench for them. German designer Michael Schoner of NL Architects has ingeniously designed a bench that plays music from mobile phones via Bluetooth.

 
While we are pretty busy talking about space tourism and flying cars, Finnair, which is celebrating its 85th birthday, is envisioning the future of flying. What might flying be like then in 85 years? I have no idea, but the ingenious folks at Finnair seem to have an answer to the question. They have conceptualized [...]

 
 New bulbs are called Plumen
Now that we’re moving on from traditional lightbulbs to more eco-friendly designs, designers have much more freedom with what they do with light. Design house Hulger is tackling light bulbs as their next big object, using the twisting tubes as pieces of functional art that you won’t want to hide behind [...]

The Gold Souk in the Mall of Dubai
The Mall of Dubai is grandiose and beautiful, but you better have a good pair of walking shoes on when you get there. Only about 30% of the shops are now open, but more will be opening soon. Here area few inside photos of this mega shopping experience. [...]

 “The glass was even colder than I expected”

Thomas Frey: Dubai is known for its strange and unusual features, but there’s something extraordinarily mesmerizing about seeing a restaurant made out of ice in the middle of a hot desert. The Chill Out restaurant is located in the center of the Time Square Mall in Dubai. Nearly [...]