Crouching Tiger and Turtle
The city of Duisburg in Germany is now home to Crouching Tiger and Turtle, which could easily be described as a roller coaster without a roller coaster! The newest feature of the German landscape has taken eight weeks of intensive work to assemble. (Pics)
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
Portavise is an unfastened vise which mounts vertical or horizontal in a non-skid base to hold delicate, odd-shapes and conventional items or can be used out of the base as a clamp. (Pics)
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2o11
AltaShot is excited to offer a unique new advertising tool that showcases your entire property by providing an elevated photograph without the need of a helicopter.
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
MakH2OPak™ is a patent pending disposable oral hydration system for those with compromised health to proved access to fluids anytime, anyplace and from any position.. It’s a smart solution to keeping patients orally hydrated, while allowing caregivers a way to easily monitor and record the intake of fluids. (Pics)
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TapSense is an experimental touchscreen system, that is able to tell the difference between different parts of the user’s finger.
Devices with small touchscreens, such as smartphones, certainly have their attractions, but they also have one drawback – there isn’t much room on their little screens for touch-sensitive features. Users will sometimes have to go into sub-menus, or make do with jabbing their fingers at tiny controls. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, however, are working on an alternative. Their prototype TapSense system can differentiate between screen taps from different parts of the finger, and will perform different tasks accordingly. (Pics and video)
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Global map showing major road and rail networks over land, along with transmission line and underwater cable data superimposed over satellite images of cities illuminated at night
The images show silvery threads stretching around the dark globe that create a dramatic spider’s web showing the patterns of our global sprawl. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Man-mad world – diagrams show how technology has taken over Earth”
The Passing Cloud by Tiago Barros
The Passing Cloud by Tiago Barros wants to become another means of air transportation that doesn’t include tight schedules and fixed locations like airplanes do. This inflatable cloud consists of a platform that will carry people across the sky. With the help of winds, this piece would travel all over the sky without a specific destination. (Pics)
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The eleMMent
If you are in the market for a futuristic and slightly bizarre motor home it’s check out the eleMMent. You’ll be the envy of the trailer park when you pull up in this 500 horsepower, 40-foot long monstrosity, which features a fireplace, a pop-up sky lounge with fog machine, and paint that glows in the dark. (Pics)
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Wunderland Kalkar amusement park
Nothing says fun for all ages like an abandoned nuclear power plant cooling tower! That’s the sentiment behind Wunderland Kalkar amusement park in Germany. Wunderland was formerly known as the Schneller Bruter cooperative energy project–where you’re more likely to encounter cotton candy and motion sickness than Geiger counters and radiation poisoning. (Pics)
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Orange Festival in France
In the south of France they actually grow citrus and as you will see they are very creative. These images from the Orange Festival in France will lift your spirits and may just make you thirst for a glass of orange juice with a twist of lemon. (Pics)
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Cayce Zavaglia took hand embroidery to the next level with her thread paintings. The detail is amazing. (Pics)
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Reading Between the Lines
Belgian architect duo Pieterjan Gijs and Arnuot Van Vaerenbergh have designed and constructed a see-through steel framed church. In cooperation with Z33, the art museum of Hasselt, they are working on a five-year long installation project, where they will construct transparent churches throughout the country. (Pics)
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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