Saturday, March 31, 2012
Cut your calories by breathing in your dessert with Vaportrim Inhalers
Don’t you ever wish you could stuff your face with all kinds of delicious treats without feeling guilty about putting on weight? Now you can, thanks to some simple inhalers from a company called Vaportrim.
US-based company Vaportrim was apparently inspired by e-cigarette technology to create a similar device that is meant to help people lose weight. Their particular health-aids apparently allow users to inhale delicious sweets like vanilla cupcakes or blueberry muffins without the many calories that usually come with them. The US-based company is actually advertising its product as the world’s first calorie-free dessert.
Oddity Central
The world largest aquarium in Germany
The Radisson Blue Hotel located in Berlin-Mitte, Germany is home to one of the most spectacular pieces of architecture we have ever encountered, the AquaDom.
Inthralld
Friday, March 30, 2012
Spider Computer by Nikolaus Frank
Its three legs can easily be folded out, allowing it to be placed on a flat surface. The mirror head opens, and the projection is directed towards the table surface or a wall. Digital correction compensates for angular differences in projection versus surface. Working prototype was made for technology, user studies and research. When legs are folded into the body, it becomes a mobile device, used as a phone, for messages etc. Circular LCD display with graphic interface. It can be carried in your pocket and brought anywhere.
Yanko Design
Til the adorable earless rabbit
An earless baby bunny that was a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman.
Telegraph
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Unique dress made of 10,000 embroidered LEDs
This dress also has hundreds of Swarovski crystals adorning it, and as you see in the pictures below, it creates a goddess effect in the silk-chiffon.
Bit Rebels
Incredible Shadow Art by Tim Noble and Sue Webster
British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster are a creative team known for their experimental art including these mind-boggling light and shadow sculptures. The duo forms abstract works from, which upon first glance, look like nothing other than straightforward piles of trash. The excitement for the viewer comes when a single light illuminates the pile and creates an entirely new piece of art—usually portraits of themselves—formed with the combination of light and shadow projected onto the wall.
My Modern Met
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Amazing dog saves a little girl's life everyday
Everyone knows that dog is man’s best friend. For 2-year-old Alida Knobloch, her dog Mr. Gibbs is more than just a friend, he’s a true life-saver. Knobloch has a rare disease called neuroendocrine hyperplasia of infancy, a disorder which occurs in children.
People with NEHI have a condition in which diseased portions of the lung filter oxygen through extra layers of cells, making it harder for the afflicted to breathe properly and get enough oxygen into the lungs.
When Mr. Gibbs is put in the red service animal vest, which has pockets on either side for small oxygen tanks, he follows Alida everywhere, providing a lifeline between her and the supply of air she needs to breathe properly. Mr. Gibbs is trained to follow her in any situation, climbing up playground equipment and going down slides with her, and he follows orders well, though the challenge is to ensure Mr. Gibbs takes Alida as his primary person.
Arbroath
Rearrage-able soft block cushions by Torafu
The 'soft block' cushion series by japanese studio torafu architects offers a solution for rearrange-able furniture. Modeled after concrete blocks in diverse designs, the modular pieces can be composed into a variety of configurations.
Design Boom
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Incredible Ant Photography by Andrey Pavlov
Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov takes insane macro pictures of LIVE ants by spending hours and hours playing with them and posing them to get the perfect shot.
Geekologie
Monday, March 26, 2012
Giant Bird Nest looks really comfortable
The “Giant Birdsnest for creating new ideas” was conceived and created by O*GE as a prototype for new and inspiring socializing space, which can be seen as a morph of furniture and playground. Its powerful, yet simple concept and intriguing character needs no explanation or user manual: Ready to to be used, to be played in, and be worked in.
Oge-Group
Creative Weaved Wood Starbuck in Japan
This incredible Starbucks café in Fukuoka, Japan has a unique weaved wood interior that is intended to complement the surrounding neighborhood and the nearby Dazaifu Tenmangu temple. The café was designed by Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma and Associates.
Laughing Squid
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Banning Cleavage in a Chess Tournament
New rules dictate that female players in the European Women’s Championship in Turkey cannot reveal “décolletés,” or cleavage.
Sava Stoisavljevic, the female European Chess Union General Secretary, told Chessbase News that the change in dress code was due to female players' appearance causing a ruckus in the peanut gallery.
Players can keep two buttons on their tops open, but no more. Skirts must be no shorter than 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) above the knee.
Stoisavljevic didn’t seem to mind that the female players dressed in skimpy garments.
“It's nice to see chess players with short skirts — they are very pretty girls. But I believe there should still be some limit.”
NY Daily News
Saturday, March 24, 2012
What does gaming do to your brain?
Another day, another curious infographic on the subject of gaming. This one comes from Online Universities, and examines the neurology behind video games, which have long been claimed to warp our fragile young children’s minds. But do they?
Forbes
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