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Mechanics. Home Improvement. Interviews vidéos exclusives – Muti Randolph. Design Ideas and Tech Concepts - Toxel.com. 12 Steampunk Gadgets and Designs. Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used. This post showcases creative gadgets and designs styled in a steampunk fashion. Steampunk PS3 Beautiful steampunk styled Playstation 3 mod created from old radio valve, a pipe valve, a pressure gauge, and assorted plumbing parts. [link] Steampunk Segway (Legway) A self balancing, human powered, steampunk styled, Segway. Steampunk Computer Mouse Amazing steampunk computer mouse created by a Russian modder.

Steampunk iPod Mini Creative steampunk iPod hand crafted from brass, copper and oak. Steampunk Laptop This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this hand crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop. Steampunk Headphones “Mechanical aural communication device” by Chris from Chicago.

Steampunk Watch Creative handmade steampunk watch design by koisuruusagi. Steampunk USB Flash Drive Steampunk Computer Keyboard Steampunk Guitar Steampunk LCD Monitor. Yatzer™ Nightstream by Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles | Yatzer™ Photo © Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles We usually consider canvas, oil and a frame as pieces of art and know that there might be one, two or a few more around the world and that's it.

The innate uniqueness, inspiration and creative pursuit gives value to the product and that is the vision and mission of the team at Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles, a unique team of creative professionals developing limited edition bicycle out of Stuttgart, Germany. They are not compromising quality or aesthetics in their process. They also are committed to offering consumers limited edition bikes by only manufacturing 25 per collection and not a single more. Their first collection, Nightstream, is a special line as it is built by one of the best framebuilders in Europe, Georg Blaschke, the Vandeyk head of engineering and framebuilding. Simplicity, Technology, Exclusivity. Sources: Vandeyk Contemporary Cycles. ''JustK'' Eco House by AMUNT | Yatzer™ Photo © Brigida González Address: Justinus-Kerner-Strasse, Tübingen, GermanyArchitects: AMUNT - architekten Martenson und Nagel Theissen, Aachen/ Stuttgart // Björn Martenson, Sonja Nagel, Jan TheissenStructural planning: Ingenieurbüro von Fragstein, Dipl.

-Ing. (Fh) Wenzel von FragsteinEnergy planning: Dipl. -Ing. Jörg LammersSite: 365 m²Floor space: 138 m² (81m² + 57 m²)Gross floor area: 278 m²Cubic content: 583 m³Energy needs: 14,4 kWh/(m²a)Building costs: € 330.000,-Design period: November 2007 to December 2008Construction period: April 2009 to June 2010 (with discontinuities)Photographer: Brigida González Zero energy houses have a soft place in our design quests and are a definite favorite of ours as a source to save all that is called Nature. Ground Floor Climate Zones© AMUNT, architekten martenson und nagel·theissen The prime focus for this 138sqm construction was none other than Zero energy, taking advantage of all of the natural surroundings and weather conditions.

Sources: Lilypad, a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city | Yatzer™ LILYPAD, A FLOATING ECOPOLIS FOR CLIMATICAL REFUGEES 2100, a large crowd of ecological refugees Further to the anthropogenic activity, the climate warms up and the ocean level increases. According to the principle of Archimedes and contrary to preconceived notions, the melting of the arctic ice-floe will not change the rising of the water exactly as an ice cube melting in a glass of water does not make its level rise. However, there are two huge ice reservoirs that are not on the water and whose melting will transfer their volume towards the oceans, leading to their rising. It deals with the ice caps of Antarctic and Greenland on the one hand, and the continental glaciers on the other hand. Another reason of the ocean rising, that does not have anything to do with the ice melting is the water dilatation under the effect of the temperature.

Aerial views of the maldivian atolls The main deck with three marinas, the submarine performing arts center and the gardens of phytopurification. St. Hilaire church in Melle by Mathieu Lehanneur | Yatzer™ Photo © Felipe Ribon The scenario inspired by the topology of the place, just like a ‘box’ sunk into the sand.Mathieu Lehanneur’s paradoxical church conversion is an architectural gesture, equally paradoxical and strangely distinguishable which will undoubtedly mark an important milestone in the development of religious works.

Religious architectural works are always within an austere context, not allowing the designer/architect to explore possibilities mainly because of what religion defines. In the later years, some development and modernization is allowed within the strict religious milieu. Lehanneur’s work explores an organic addition to the already existing Romanesque church building of St. Hilaire in Melle in the Deux-Sèvres district of France. Mathieu Lehanneur has enhanced and created a superior atmosphere in the Romanesque church building with an extremely mineral look. The architectural addition will without doubt leave a significant mark in the development of religious works.

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