Golden ratio is also known as the divine proportion
The golden ratio is believed to have guided Egyptians in the construction of the Pyramids and Athenians to erect their imposing architecture.
 

It took 300 people to construct a 400 square foot model of the USSR’s capital city back in 1977. Today you can buy that super-detailed, scaled-down version of Moscow for a mere $3 million.

Stunning, isn’t it? Apparently every single of the itty-bitty windows in the model can be lit up and there are effects to [...]

Its really the knitted booties that complete the whole fashion statement
What exactly is the definition of goofy? Did the definition came from the Disney character or was the character named after the word? Was the concept of being profound invented before the word, or was there simply a spare word laying around in search of the moment [...]

It took 172 minutes on a rooftop to shoot 1655 overlapping 21.6 megapixel images and 94 hours to stitch them together. The result is not only a gorgeous 26 gigapixel view of Dresden, Germany, but also the world’s biggest photo.
 

YouTube
“This clock does not actually have a man inside but is a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute.”
 

Sportin’ a Woodie!

Forget carbon fibre or special metal alloys, this Japanese sports car manufactured by Sada-Kenbi is made from wood. This special car was hand built by wood craftsmen and is actually legal to drive in Japan. The car can accelerate up to 80 kmh (50 mph) and is for sale at a bargain price [...]

William Gurstelle, a contributing editor at MAKE, has produced a series of project posters, measuring 36″ x 24″. The first two in the series are available on his web site, Ballisticom.

Calabi-Yau Manifold Crystal

Holiday shopping can be tough. Holiday shopping for that special someone can be tougher—especially if that someone happens to be a theoretical physicist. Luckily, for the brainiac who has everything there’s this beautiful Calabi-Yau Manifold crystal.
But what is it, you ask? Why, put simply, it’s a great representation of something we primitive humans [...]

This necklace is bright and bold with 7 traffic cone orange capacitors!
Silver tubes space the capacitors on a snake chain.

Those creative folks over at ETSY dot com have entered another barrage of hot tech fashion staments. Case in point is the artist “digiBling” who has created an electronical array of necklaces, earrings, cufflinks, and belts to [...]

This is quite an unusual device! Corbin Dunn, a computer programmer and mountain unicyclist, built this two-person unicycle. Alas, he lost a blog post about the construction of it, but his site filled with interesting pictures of his many unusual hobbies….

In the bird world, royalty is often determined by the caliber of your wingman
As you may have guessed, this guy is just a poser

Some days I find myself laughing for no reason at all. Other days I have a reason, but the reason is totally unrelated to the situation I’m in. And then on [...]

Gizmodo has a fun flow chart that you can use to determine whether your iPhone usage when you’re together with your significant other is passable or totally inappropriate. I don’t have an iPhone, but I just did a quick assessment of my boyfriend, and concluded that most of the time I should be telling him [...]

Picks of destiny?

More than three decades ago, Scott Weaver began building a model of San Francisco out of 100,000 toothpicks. He began the fragile project at the age of fifteen, which has survived four homes, an earthquake, and a destructive dog. In The San Francisco Gate, Janny Hu writes:
“Rolling Through the Bay” is 9 feet [...]

Here’s a competitor in the 6th Robo-One Gate dance competition, held in Tokyo in November 2009. I wonder if the rules require the robots to look like scary cyborg schoolgirls?

Does it also come in pink?
Designed with the f word in mind (that’s fun, potty mouth), this idiot-proof LED projector features an integrated DVD player and built-in stereo speakers. Simply plug it in, bung in a disc and gawp in wonder as it beams a quality image (up to 50”) on the wall. Papa-papa-papa-papa – [...]

A Funky New Hair Styler

A stylist has emulated Edward Scissorhands by inventing a set of razor sharp ‘clawz’ which he claims will revolutionize hair cutting. Valentino LoSauro says his devices cut hair twice as fast as normal scissors.
Mr LoSauro spent two years and £150,000 developing his invention. “The idea came to me in the late [...]

Photo: Michelle Pred (planting her work into IKEA’s inventory.)
As crowds rushed to find deals at the Emeryville, CA IKEA store, one of them had a plan other than shopping.  Michelle Pred was actually placing her artwork, complete with working IKEA barcodes, into the inventory, an act she calls “shopdropping.”  Unlike shoplifting, she isn’t breaking any [...]

Italian White Alba Truffle
If you’re looking to expand your horizons into the world of excess culinary expense, then you could do worse than starting with a few items on this list of the most outlandish, outrageous and, above all, the most expensive foods in the world.
Pictured above is the Italian White Alba Truffle which is [...]

That’s the vision behind Gebhard Sengmüller’s art installation entitled “A Parallel Image.” Starting with the work of French engineer Maurice Leblanc in 1880, moving images were transmittable electrically by breaking them down into single frames, and then frames into individual pixels. This is how broadcast and cable television developed. Sengmüller writes…

Wedding Party: SaL9000(left), Nene on the DS being held by the best man

The Bride, Nene Anegasaki, from Konami’s Love Plus Photo: Konami

It had to happen…A Japanese man infatuated with a character in a computer game has married the object of his desires in a solemn ceremony in Tokyo.
The groom – who calls himself SAL9000 – [...]

Charles Darwin called and he wants his theory of evolution back
If tomorrow was yesterday, and the day after tomorrow was the day after yesterday, it would still be today only two days later. However, if the time differential between the same day occurring twice in the same week is less than zero, we have a serious problem. [...]

The animatronic heads from artist Nathaniel Mellor are part of a $75,000 art piece on sale at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. The artificial faces are controlled by servos which in turn are controlled by a computer.  For all audiophiles, this art installation is perhaps the scariest thing ever. Forget the musicians; this is too [...]

Vicissitudes show a circle of figures which are linked through holding hands.
They are life-size casts taken from a group of children
This winter, tourists to the beautiful Yucatan Peninsula off the coast of Cancun, Mexico will have one more thing to look forward to – an amazing underwater museum featuring 400 sculptures, inspired from both contemporary [...]

Earth Centre
The Windside Wind Turbine is a vertical wind turbine based on sailing engineering principles. The turbine rotor is rotated by two spiral-formed vanes. First tests were made in Southern Finland in both inland and marine environments. Laboratory wind tunnel tests were also made. For over twenty years Windside have continued to research, test and [...]

The Ultimate Holding Company, a British arts collective, offered tattoos of 100 endangered species to people who are committed to preserving them as a project they call Extinked. One hundred volunteers were chosen out of several hundred who applied to receive a tattoo. Those who made it through had written about why they deserved to [...]