Natalie Gerber Bags and Accessories. South African born designer Natalie Gerber has a line of handbags and other accessories from reclaimed materials and prints she’s created in collaboration with a group in Durban, South Africa. While she lives and works in Calgary, Canada now, she is clearly inspired by her homeland and chose to work with KwaDabeka Township on the imagery in her hand-printed fabrics. The geometric patterns are rich in texture and make for an interesting story. I love how she mixes printed fabrics with leathers and suedes. Twelve Spectacular Modern Bathroom Ideas. We’ve featured many a product for the bathroom here – sinks, vanities, faucets, tubs, you name it.
Since bathroom design has come so far in recent years, we decided to roundup some of our favorite bathroom sinks, faucets, tubs and accessories. Here are 12 companies that are doing it well: The Outline collection designed by MayaDesign Studio for Ceramica Althea comes in various color combinations and highlights the parts that are rarely seen in bathroom furniture. Leave it to Karim Rashid to bring bath fixtures to the future.
He partnered with Saturn Bath Company in Korea to create the collection in which he plays with color and shapes and takes these pieces to the next level. Nissan's new leather seats feel like human skin. Nissan's new upholstery aims to replicate the texture and softness of human skin (Photo: Shutterstock) Image Gallery (3 images) Nissan is working on a material for its car seats that will replicate the texture and softness of human skin.
Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell dies. 7 August 2012Last updated at 16:26 GMT A look at Sir Bernard Lovell's achievements Pioneering astronomer and physicist Sir Bernard Lovell has died aged 98.
Sir Bernard, who was born near Bristol and studied in the city, was the founder of University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory. Jodrell Bank and the surrounding Cheshire countryside is dominated by the Lovell Radio Telescope, which was conceived by Sir Bernard. Professor Brian Cox, who knew Sir Bernard, said he was "an inquisitive scientist all the way". A book of condolence has been opened at the observatory's Discovery Centre. Sir Bernard was born in Oldland Common, Gloucestershire, in 1913 and studied at the University of Bristol before joining the University of Manchester's Department of Physics in 1936. 'Visionary leader' During World War II he led a team developing radar technology, for which he was later awarded an OBE. Following the war, he returned to the university and set about planning the observatory. Johan Thörnqvist » Pictures from my phone.
Visualized: Sandia National Laboratories Z machine erupts in a web of lightning. Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee. (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.
Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. Why the Universe is Flat I The Great Courses. K-MODDL & Tutorials & Reuleaux Triangle. If an enormously heavy object has to be moved from one spot to another, it may not be practical to move it on wheels.
Instead the object is placed on a flat platform that in turn rests on cylindrical rollers (Figure 1). As the platform is pushed forward, the rollers left behind are picked up and put down in front. An object moved this way over a flat horizontal surface does not bob up and down as it rolls along. Princeton invention delivers 3D sound from ordinary laptop speakers. NASA Science.
Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence. Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever--so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe.
The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty lush. Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water--20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth--Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over--20,000 times over. The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.
The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water. Make an Emergency Flash Drive and Take it With You Whenever You Travel. Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum. (PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator.
For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of a thermos to keep beverages hot or cold. FanWing.