Glassy Houses

Kengo Kuma - Water/Glass House.

In the WATER/GLASS House, Kengo Kuma tried to frame space with only two horizontal planes - the floor of water and the ceiling louvers- and to generate between the planes a transparent and fluid time-space.

20 Interesting Infographics

I love infographics because they tell a complex story in a graphical way and make it easier to understand.  Here's 20 infographics I gathered on the net covering almost everything from technology and water issues to space and tatoos. Click on images for larger view.

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Most bizarre eyeglasses

Wouldn't it be nice to have eyeglasses that don't look like everyone else's? Micromega's collection  is bizarre, but still elegant. Frames and sun glasses that will make you look twice.

Modern Water Clock Designs

Ancient water clock or clepsydra ('to steal water' in Greek) was any timekeeper operated by means of a regulated flow of liquid into or out from a vessel where the amount is then measured. Today, the use of water flow to power a clock is a rarely practiced art, where its purpose has become more for show and novelty than for functional accuracy. Here's some examples.

The ChronArte Canna is a spectacular wall clock with real liquid display. The twelve crystal clear tubes fill like a cascade with colored water. Minute by minute, hour by hour. When all are filled, the system empties and the cycle begins anew. Continuously flowing water as a symbol for time and its passing.

Bernard Gitton's Liquid-Time Sculpture displays time using a complex system of pipes and siphons. The sculpture can be constructed from 7 ft. to as much as 35 ft. high and is already appearing in various places around the world including a gigantic model in the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.

                                                      

Kouichi Okamoto's Water Clock tells time with water and magnets. Inside the ceramic base are 2 rotating magnets which attract 2 balls - the red one showing the hours, the white one the minutes.

Modern water clock (clepsydre) museum Noria.

                                                                      

Wear your Music

Mac Funamizu has designed a music jewelry concept that allows you to literally wear your music. This music gadget, by default, is transparent, but when you want to make it stand out, just change the colors/patterns or use your favorite photo on the background.

Steampunk Animal Sculptures

James Corbett  likes to incorporate old and interesting car parts into his sculptures. Nothing is bent into shape, the original integrity of each car part is maintained. The Car Part Sculptor has exhibited his works in galleries all across the world.

Earth Likes to Impress

Pamukalle, Turkey

Meaning "cotton castle".Thousands of years ago earthquakes created fractures that allowed powerful hot springs to bring water rich in calcium carbonate to the surface. As the water evaporated the chalky material condensed and formed layer-upon-layer of Travertine and thus slowly built up the walls in the same way that a stalactite forms in a cave.

Most bizarre eyelashes sets

Unconventional Creatures

Weird sculpture,creepy creations and at the same time elegant pieces of art.

Kate Clark creates part-human, part-animal taxidermy sculptures to draw attention to our shared primeval origins.They echo the insecurities of our human condition, wavering between instinct and rationality. 

Striking Shopping Mall Designs

Morocco Mall
Morocco Mall in Casablanca is a shopping center that employing latest technologies and sustainable design techniques is set to introduce new green structures in the shopping center industry. Spreading in a 200,000 sq m area, is an extension of Casablanca’s waterfront promenade. It is due to open in late 2010.

USB Warm Gloves

The perfect tool for the Winter, USB Warm Gloves for boys and girls which feature heat generators built inside.Powered by USB, these gloves come with removable hood that covers the fingers. Its separated USB cable design allows you to wear it freely. It's a great gadget and a nice gift for your friends and family to make them feeling warm all the time!

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Shapeshifting Gadgets

The Locust Folding bike
Main feature of the design is the circular frame. It allows unusual folding. The user can leave her/his car at the parking outside of the city center and then continue riding bike loaded in the trunk. Locust gives new meaning to the term "park and ride".

Stunning Architecture Photography

Athens Olympic complex
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Innovative cellphone designs

Leaf Phone
Russian designer Anastasia Zharkova has come up with an innovative cellphone that invariably becomes an integral part of your daily activities. The “Leaf Phone,” as depicted by its very name, resembles a natural leaf and flaunts an organic structure that is carved out of eco-friendly plastic.

Chindogu: useless and insane japanese gadgets

Chindogu is the japanese word coined for the art of the unuseless idea. Strangely practical and utterly eccentric inventions for a life of ease, meant to solve the niggling problems of modern life, these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and gizmos have a tendency to fail completely.