
Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner has the best windows ever. The plane no longer uses a pull-down plastic shade, and instead replaces it with a larger, dimming window that can be adjusted to let in various amounts of light.
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![]() Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner has the best windows ever. The plane no longer uses a pull-down plastic shade, and instead replaces it with a larger, dimming window that can be adjusted to let in various amounts of light. ![]() China is planning to build a museum devoted for comic and animation. The China Comic and Animation Museum (CCAM) will be located on Baima (White Horse) Lake in Hangzhou. The museum is expected to cost about RMB 1 billion and is set to be completed in 2013. ![]() If only humans could walk on water, we could build giant ships on the water. But that’s still impossible as the parts and components of the ship will still drown. Which is why, instead, we build those humongous ships on dry land, get them as close to the water as we can, give ‘em a shove and hope and pray for the best. ![]() The Microsoft Home, located on the Redmond campus in the Executive Briefing Center, is an envisioning of the family home in the very near future where connected experiences and devices take their next logical steps and beyond. ![]() The Thermochromic Urinal takes peeing to the next level with a heat sensitive wall that changes colors to reflect the temperature change. ![]() This is awesome! The team from National Geographic have created a real-life “balloon-house” version of Pixar’s animated hit film, Up. Yes, a house tied to gas balloons that actually flies. ![]() The sculpture of the Greatest, Muhammad Ali, was made with 1,300 punching bags. Artist Michael Kalish treated each speed bag as a pixel and put them all together, forming the face, and classic snarl, of Muhammad Ali. ![]() Public benches are great. You get to sit back, take it easy, and survey sights and sounds that might escape you otherwise. Also great: spiral staircases, privacy, and watching things from above. These elevated benches give you ALL THAT. ![]() In late 2010, NASA awarded contracts to three teams — Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, The Boeing Company — to study advanced concept designs for aircraft that could take to the skies in the year 2025. Now, the team gave NASA a sneak peek of the particular design they plan to pursue. ![]() The rising sea waters caused by global warming have inspired a Russian architect to design a hotel that could be built on water as well as land. The eco-friendly “Ark” could be constructed in just a few months anywhere in the world, the designer says. ![]() Unable to afford Beijing’s sky-high rental prices, Dai Haifei, a 24-year-old graduate in architecture in Beijing, has found an ingenious solution to live rent-free and taken the trend of living in tiny spaces to a whole new level by building a mobile egg-shaped house that is powered by the sun. ![]() God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. Within the same period, super efficient construction crew built the 15-story Ark Hotel in Changsha, China! ![]() You ever find yourself stuck at a traffic light that’ll just never turn green? Doesn’t it feel like forever? If traffic lights used this this concept LED Sand Glass, you’ll know exactly how much time is left. ![]() Meet the Levytator, the world’s first escalator that can go around corners. Thanks to its curved, interlocking steps, the Levytator can snake across hillsides, departure lounges and shopping malls in any shape the architect likes. ![]() Danish Henning Larsen architects has received the LEAF award for residential building of the year 2010 for their project ‘The Wave in Vejle’ |
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