The FLEDERHAUS
This amazing structure is an urban oasis situated in Vienna Austria designed by architects Heri & Salli. Visitors can hang out, quite literally. (Pics)
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Amazing blue chair illusion
2D/3D Chairs
When you peek inside the windows of the Issey Miyake store in Tokyo, and you’ll think you’re looking at a room full of blue chairs. But that’s where you’d be wrong! The white floor only has blue chair backs popping out of the floor, the rest of the chair, the seats and legs, have been painted on the ground! (Pics)
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Sleep suit for portable power naps
Sleep suit
The urban sleep suit was designed by Forrest Jessee for the bustling non-stop lifestyle of contemporary cosmopolitans. The urban sleep suit is a take-anywhere, nap-anytime ensemble made to be slept in on the spot. Buckminster Fuller could have really used one of these outfits. Did you know he was a proponent of polyphasic sleep, taking just four thirty-minute naps a day for nearly two years? (Pics)
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The Eclypsa – a freestanding circular fireplace
The Eclypsa
The Eclypsa, is a free standing circular fireplace by Arkiane and designed by Benjamin Mesnard. (Pics)
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TagSense – new app automatically tags smartphone photos
TagSense not only can pick out people but the context of the picture, including emotions, weather conditions and type of activity.
A new app can automatically tag your smartphone photos with a wide range of attributes, picking out not only the people but the context of the picture, including emotions, weather conditions and type of activity.
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Sweden’s hotel of treehouses
Tree Hotel in Sweden
Sweden’s unusual Tree Hotel does away with standardized rooms and instead puts guests up in a variety of design-y treehouses. A variety of architectural firms and the Tree Hotel partnered up to design distinct and unusual spaces all built in trees except for the ground-touching sauna. (Pics)
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Craziest basketball court in the world
3D-styled basketball court in Munich.
There is a basketball court in Munich, Germany that is going to blow your mind. It is the craziest basketball court in the world. (Pics)
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World’s longest sea bridge opens in China
Qingdao Haiwan Bridge
The 26.4 minle long Qingdao Haiwan Bridge would easily span the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana. (Pics and video)
Extreme planking (photos)
Planking
Planking , also known as the Lying Down Game, is the seemingly harmless trend of lying face down, perfectly stiff, on various structures in public. The trend has spawned how-to videos on YouTube and the term now has a Wikipedia entry. (Pics)
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The Wing House – an amazing recycled 747 airplane house
The guts of a retired Boeing 747 jumbo jet rests in the hills of Malibu, California. These parts aren’t just strewn around in the hills of Malibu. They have been constructed into the “Wing House,” which, as you can see, is aptly named: the roofs used to be wings. (Pics)
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ManBabies – Funny and a little disturbing photos of men and their babies
ManBabies!
Babies are adorable, and men are just normal looking, but when you swap their heads, the results are really creepy. ManBabies gives you hilarious photoshopped pictures of men and their babies with their heads switched. (Pics)
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Most Extreme Toilets in the World
Swarovski-studded toilet
Here is a collection of the most extreme toilets in the world that do anything from play music, check your blood pressure or warm your feet. You can treat your backside to the finest materials and technology that money can buy. The toilets are decked out in precious metals and gadgets that can handle everything from entertainment to keeping tabs on our health. If you are still going to the bathroom in a regular toilet, you simply aren’t living life to the fullest.
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