The older generation doesn't appreciate how #technology has improved our lives… Cubelets Now Available For Pre-Order. Astro Teller has an unusual way of starting a new project: He tries to kill it. Teller is the head of X, formerly called Google X, the advanced technology lab of Alphabet. At X’s headquarters not far from the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., Teller leads a group of engineers, inventors, and designers devoted to futuristic “moonshot” projects like self-driving cars, delivery drones, and Internet-beaming balloons.
To turn their wild ideas into reality, Teller and his team have developed a unique approach. It starts with trying to prove that whatever it is that you’re trying to do can’t be done—in other words, trying to kill your own idea. As Teller explains, “Instead of saying, ‘What’s most fun to do about this or what’s easiest to do first?’ We say, ‘What is the most likely reason this project won’t make it?’
The moonshots that X has pursued since its founding six years ago are a varied bunch. Shelving for Cars - Dumage. Shelving for Cars This is one big shelving. Two towers for car storage. Here what we found about this wonderful architectural structure on wikipedia: The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. Biggest attraction, of course, are the towers. There is also a room with interactive devices which provide information on the design of cars using Audi as an example.
Cool stuff on other blogs. Miniature Kinetic Sculptures Are the Coolest Snail Mail You Could Possibly Send Someone. Concept Alarm Clock Pillow Will Vibrate You Awake. Invisible Hotel – Tree House. Invisible Hotel - Tree House Nature | October 5, 2010 / views: Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/weirdex/public_html/includes/functions_core.php on line 260 6,723 This interesting eco-hotel, "mirrorcube", is located on a tree, about 15m above the ground; made by a Swedish architectural firm Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter. In the cube with dimensions of 4m, covered with mirrors, there is a kitchen, living room, bedroom, and terrace. From these rooms offers a wonderful view of 360 degrees on the forest and animals in it. The rooms are perfectly comfortable and pleasant. The hotel is located in northern Sweden, about 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in the village Harads, and anyone who wants to socialize with nature can visit it.
Neat Wood Mat Folds Into A Stool, Disappears In The Floor When Done. Photos: Courtesy of DosUno Design. Another product from Colombian studio DosUno Design (whose Rubix transformer furniture set we reviewed yesterday), Deckstool is a simple wood mat that folds into a stool. Apart from being perfect for small spaces, it's also flat pack and simply produced with few materials. Example of the deckstool folding into a seat. The idea is pretty simple but it would be interesting to explore it for other types of furniture: a mat with broader pieces of wood could make a neat table or desk, and unfold into a flat, thin structure for easy transportation. As we mentioned in our previous article about them, DosUno Design is a studio based in Bogota, Colombia, run by locally-raised Santiago Restrepo and Israel native Assaf Wexler. You can see other products by them at their website. More Flat Pack Design:Flatpack Never Looked Better Than Joe Doucet's Screwtop TableMy Space: Popup Room for Kids to Play With Their FriendstersFlatpack Unfolds Into Instant Shelter.
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X3 Gyroplane Uses 15 Blades to Race at 253MPH. What texting does to us - Technology - smh.com.au. THE scientific literature that comes into a newspaper office is often weird, mostly wonderful and sometimes simply woeful. But on this day, the science was pointing to a worrying development in the way we humans think. The ratio communis, a key region of the brain, was malfunctioning. Instead of fluorescing on brain scans, it flickered, grey and dull. What science was trying to work out was the link between this dead zone and gadgets. When we chat on the mobile phone, text furiously, browse the BlackBerry, or commune with our car's global positioning system (GPS), the lights go out. So alarmed was the American College of Emergency Physicians it issued a media release, concerned at not just the bruised coming into hospital emergency rooms, but the fatalities when this key decision-making part of the brain failed.
"Don't text while you're engaged in physical activities that require sustained attention, such as biking, inline skating [rollerblading] and playing sports," the college warned. Meet Finland's All-Knowing 3D Speed Camera. Physicists developing invisibility cloak | Weird. Scientists in the U.K. have developed a flexible film that can manipulate light to render objects invisible.
The film contains tiny structures known as "metamaterial," and marks the next step in creating a real-world invisibility cloak, like the one in the Harry Potter novels. But this cloak is magic-free. Instead, it works by interrupting and channelling the flow of light. Metamaterials have done this before, but only with colours beyond the reach of human sight. That's because light waves can only be manipulated like this by structures that are about as large as the waves' length.
But the researchers, whose work was published this week in the New Journal of Physics, used a thick polymer film instead of the usual "fishnet" structures other physicists have tried. Ortwin Hess, a physicist at Imperial College London, called it "a huge step forward in very many ways". "It clearly isn't an invisibility cloak yet - but it's the right step toward that," he told BBC News. Four Vans Successfully Navigated From Italy to China Without Drivers or Maps.
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