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Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius Part 8. A Perilous Hobby: Vertical Camping. Next time you’re passing by a cliff and happen to see a precariously hanging tent with campers inside, don’t be alarmed, it’s just a portable ledge (portaledge): Portaledges — or deployable hanging tents — might seem like a thrill-seeking activity (and it can be), but the idea has actually been around since the 1950s. During this time, rock climbers began to stay overnight on the mountains they were scaling and started looking for convenient niches in the mountain side to make their bed. The first portaledges were used in Yosemite National Park and were non-collapsible cots or hammocks.

Climbers would sit on a Navy surplus canvas chair and rest their heads on their dangling rucksacks. Tour of a house thats less than 100 square feet. Guy Hacks Times Square. Funny Videos, Free Games, & Funny Pictures Sign up | Login Guy Hacks Times Square [+] Not fake, he's a real asian. [–] Not fake, he's a real asian. Tags: Amazing, Win, Video <div class="highlightRed"><p>Please enable JavaScript. Gymnast Flips Out Amazingly Low Wingsuit Flight Epic First-Person Urban Downhil... Epic Behind-the-Back Ping Pong ... Guy Builds Epic Copter Guy Dances with Crutches World's Smallest Helicopter How to Turn a Newspaper Page by... Insane Basketball Shot Guy Demonstrates Self Driving C... How to be a Firefighter Like a ... Epic Goalkeeper Save Comments (211) Mar 16, 2011 | Reply Thats awesome, now all he has to do is film some porn and put that up on the big screen. Post reply | Sign up | Login ITS f*ckING AWESOME !!!!!

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The city on its part, promises to provide all the infrastructure needed to promote it. Main Features: comfortable ride with energy leveling and the stepless gearbox, option of adding seat-tube battery for speed, two wireless control-units (that work with two wireless rings on the handlebar) help control your ride. 14) Beik by Lukas Jungmann Main Features: Audi branding, folding mechanism, articulated frame steering and the untypical frame setup. 13) Tribune by Thüring Lukas, Lukas Thüring & Florian Vecsey 12) Ridenpush by You Ho Jeon 8 ) Helo by Junkyo Lee. Industrial design courses ? designboom. Air Umbrella by Je Sung Park & Yanko Design.

Try Air To Stay Dry Back in May last year I did a roundup of the Most Unconventional Umbrellas seen here on YD. I wish I had stumbled across the Air Umbrella then, because it’s the mother of unconventional designs! Imagine an umbrella with no canopy! The barrier between you and the raindrops is a sheet of steady air that is blown out by this hollow pipe. You can control the length of the stick and the size of the air canopy. Designers: Je Sung Park & Woo Jung Kwon. Conrad Maldives Rangali Islands unique underwater suite (NOT photoshop)

20 Insanely Creative Bookshelves: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011. Download the PDF of these ideas : Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011 (2mb) [ New American Public Art ] Small Footprint, Big Yield: Create an Easy Micro Organic Urban Garden Today... April 28, 2009 by Robin Plaskoff Horton There are two things urban gardeners are short on: space and time. The Urban Garden, brainchild of Bill Arquitt, resolves both of these issues, making it efficient and simple to plant a vegetable garden with up to 55 plants in a 3-foot deep by 4-foot wide footprint.

The contained six level tiered system is nearly maintenance-free, eliminating heavy weeding, and its northwestern cedar construction renders it naturally bug repellent. Stick POP Portable Printer by Jihun Kang, Youngho Lee, Jieun Lee &... Printouts In A Jiffy, Anywhere It was about time that someone came up with this, I mean we are in the portable era! Stick POP is a portable printer that can handle a small amount of load. You can’t overburden it with all your documents, just a small stash that you need pronto.

Measuring 23 cm by 6 cm, it’s easy to fit it in your handbag. Just hook it up to your comp /device via USB and get printing! Oh, and an OLED screen on the bar displays the printing status.