High-Tech, Kevlar-Clad House Transforms to Avoid Disasters
A prototype, to be sure, but what a beautiful design and brilliant idea. A combination of formal choices and built-in technologies recognize the awesome power of nature, and attempt to adapt to rather than defy environmental conditions on the ground (or in the sky).
Dinner parties are a traditional way to introduce acquaintances to one another, but the main element of the dinner party is its biggest hindrance: the table itself. Closer is a project from Marco A. Guadarrama that seeks to bring people physically nearer to one another while they mingle.
If you’re one of those people who regularly misplace your keys, your TV remote, your wallet and anything else that’s small enough to disappear, you need a way to keep track of your stuff. The Finder is an RFID location device that uses a transparent touchscreen device and a sheet of locator stickers to help you find all of your little lost things. Just peel a sticker off of the sheet and stick it onto your stuff, then the handheld device can tell you just where it is.
Who says candid pictures always have to be nice? Wouldn’t it be more fun to catch your friends’ faces at their most startled? You definitely would accomplish that with the Sling Shot Camera. As you can infer from the name, it looks just like a slingshot – but instead of flinging spitballs or pebbles with the elastic string you can snap hilarious portraits of your friends looking surprised.
One of the reasons that activities like skydiving and paragliding are so popular is that humankind has been trying to fly since the first time one of us saw a bird take off. What an amazing feeling it is to zoom through the air, heart pounding, while watching the ground so far away below. The ParaMoto Trike concept is a whimsical kind of vehicle that would let you zip through the sky and then zip around on the streets once you land.
People who frequent gyms often complain that running on treadmills and riding stationary bikes may be good exercise, but they feel pointless since you don’t get anywhere. The Circular Bike by artistRobert Wechsler can get you out of the gym and into the fresh air…but you still won’t get anywhere riding it.
There’s been a lot of hubbub about 3D displays for the past few years, but those 3D televisions and movie screens are really just optical illusions. This display prototype developed by Burton actually displays images in three dimensions. Named the True 3D Display, the device uses a laser to illuminate points of light either in water or in the air. Smaller displays like this one use a tank of water with the laser rising up from below. But larger displays can be created to view 3D objects in mid-air by creating plasma excitation of environmental nitrogen and oxygen. The images created by the display can be viewed naturally by simply moving around them and looking at all sides.
Not all nifty home projects need to be expensive or complex. Sometimes there are simple, cheap and fun do-it-yourself ideas that are as lovely as they are low-tech – like this easy trick for making wine bottles into miniature winter moss gardens. The best part is that you get to have some greenery while doing something eco-friendly, a win-win situation for you, your environment and the planet at large.
Despite the best of intentions, more than three out of four plastic bottles are trashed and sent to landfills each year rather than being recycled or upcycled. What if there was an easy to to turn your bottles into something new and useful rather than sending them through the dubious and energy-consuming recycling process?
Some sinks and water fountains just are not shaped right for refilling portable receptacles, making it hart to fill at all in some cases and, in others, impossible to top things off to go.
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