10 Google products you (probably) never knew existed. Space & Future... Russia in talks for Moon base timeshare with European Space Agency, NASA. China Builds 30-Story Hotel In Just 15 Days! (video. Pre-fab materials and a steel frame make the hotel's speedy assembly possible.
Broad Group, a Chinese construction company in Hunan Province has built a hotel. At 30 stories tall and 183,000-square feet, the hotel itself is nothing extraordinary. What is extraordinary is the time the company needed to build it. Just 360 hours, or 15 days! But Broad Group didn’t sacrifice quality for speed. As you can see, the workers made use of all 360 hours, working around the clock. If there was any question as to how China would populate the wilderness stretching between their southern mega city, we now have the answer.
Video: Broad Group. Urbanflow Aims To Turn Cities Into Playgrounds For Interactive Infographics. Ever find yourself wandering around a new city (or even one you’re familiar with), and approach one of those handy urban info-kiosks only to find that it’s completely inadequate to the task of telling you where you are, where you might want to go, and what is going on around you?
Urbanscale has the same frustration, which is why they teamed up with designers at Nordkapp to design a set of updated public signage called Urbanflow that’s as connected and interactive as the smartphone in your pocket. Here’s their concept video: God knows it’s tempting, in this day and age, to slather touchscreen awesomesauce over every physical object we possibly can. And Urbanscale’s vision of an "operating system for cities" is compelling.
As they astutely write: "The challenge is that while cities are fast, municipal decision making is slow by nature. Sounds awesome. Maybe such a scenario could be avoided if the screen were large enough and had multitouch capabilities. [Via Inventing Interactive] Microvision Can Turn Any Projection Into Touchscreen. LAS VEGAS -- Has it always been your dream to play "Ms.
Pacman" on the surface of Whistler's Mother? Have you ever dreamed of flinging an Angry Bird from the left pec of a shirtless bodybuilder to the right pec? If you could have gone through a season of "Madden NFL 2012" while playing every down on your mother's forehead at the dinner table, would you? All of these (admittedly) bizarre scenarios are hypothetical realities with MicroVision's pico projector with a touch-interactive display.
It has the power to transform anything you project onto a wall from your laptop or smartphone into a touch-friendly screen. At the Consumer Electronics Show, MicroVision executives showed me an eye-opening glimpse of what looks like the future. It's a bit of a clichè, but the closest analogy for what this technology enables is really from a scene in "Minority Report," in which Tom Cruise swipes, slides and pushes asides frames on a glass display. On Truth & Reality: Philosophy Physics Metaphysics of Space, Wave Structure of Matter. Famous Science Art Quotes.