Monday, October 24, 2011

Houses are Against Gravity

The houses are the work of several designers have a unique design that seemed to defy gravity. Sources: www.oddee.com


The building in Ukraine that has only one pillar is known as 'Floating Castle'. Formerly, this building was used as a warehouse loading and unloading of mineral fertilizers.


A-Osdorp apartment in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is made more prominent and hanged in order to get enough sunlight for the residents.


Apartments 'Habitat 67' in Montreal, Canada has a unique shape like lego arranged irregularly.

Home reverse Polish designer, Daniel Czapiewska depicts Polish social life of the people of post-communist era.



'Heliotrope Rotating House' by German architect Rolf Disch is located in the city of Freiburg, Germany can be spun to look for sunshine in the winter.



Tree house shaped like a ball that hung on the tree is located in British Columbia, Canada.


Lastel Hotels, Lodging For Bodies

Who says the hotel is only for those who are dead? proof of a hotel in Japan was established specifically for the corpse. Here, they were laid while waiting for their turn to do the cremation process.

Density of activity in a crematorium in Japan make the family the body had to wait their turn to do the cremation process. While waiting their turn, families can 'leave' the corpse at the Hotel Lastel which was built as a temporary lodging place for the corpse in Yokohama, Japan.

Hotel called Lastel is located near the port city of Yokohama. From the outside it does look like a typical hotel, so it often makes young couples who want to stay fooled. When entered into, the visitors can see the ranks of a small room containing the coffin cold.

There are about 40 rooms with services like hotel in general. Prices for rooms per night set at 12,000 yen or about US$ 100. The owner, Hisayoshi Teramura, said his business is thriving. Not least because the number of deaths increased each year in Japan.(Foto: REUTERS/ Yuriko Nakao)


Vertical Farm in Dubai

After trying to make a cool beach, Dubai once again did a very great innovation in the building contractor.

As we all know Dubai is rich with oil but if you talk to water and agriculture, of course Dubai is not a great nation.

For that Dubai to build a farm in a vertical position in a building called "Vertical Farm". And an architectural firm and building contractor from Italy, Studiomobile will help the project "weird".

The building is shaped like a plant will utilize sea water for two purposes: one to cool the air inside the building and convert sea water into ordinary water that will be used for watering the existing plants.

Air will enter the building will be cooled with the help of sea water and air that there will also be condensed so that it will convert air into water. And this water that will be used for watering plants.

With projects and investments such as this, we're just worried that the price of one kg of cassava there might be for an LCD TV / plasma.


Copy face

Real-f, a startup company from Japan, provides an opportunity for you to see yourself in new ways.

With rates 2,500 pounds or about US $ 3000, the company would make a photo of your face and then print them in 3D models to be used as the 'face' which is made of solid vinyl chloride. The result, a model called the 3DPF or 3 Dimensional Photo Form.

If the face is not enough, you could even create a 3D photocopy of your head in full, including the shoulders.

Real-f is not the first company to attempt to create a mask of human face. However, the model generated by Real-f is the most realistic.

Real-f claim, you could even see the veins and membrane of the eyeball. They even mention the technology that they created a process of 'copy' of man.

"We have switched from monochrome to color. Now is the time for the era of three-dimensional stereoscopic effect, "said Real-f, as quoted from dailymail.

Real-f does not explain what their purpose to make these technologies. However, there are indications that the user can install the 'head' them on mannequins. Whatever its use, the buyer needs to wait two weeks until your head is finished.


Caterpillars convoy Feather Cross Road

136 caterpillar makes a single line and stretched over the road, connected by a thin silk thread which set their paths. And their safety is assured by a motorist, who stopped for 20 minutes waiting for the convoy crossed the finish caterpillars.

Spectacle was successfully captured by the camera Jamie Rooney British tourists, who visit the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa. Jamie, from High Wycombe, Bucks, was in the Jeep full of tourists when their driver slammed the brakes just a few inches of running convoy caterpillar crawl it.

Jamie, 38, who works in sales site, said: "This is an incredible sight. We were driving in the Kruger National Park for a safari, when suddenly the driver screamed and slammed on the brakes-nya.Dia managed to stop just in time in front of the convoy of this caterpillar, which stretches across the street. "

Conservation is a big deal in South Africa that its contents if there is life on the road you have to wait patiently until they passed safely across. "We came out to take a closer look as much as 136 caterpillars convoy, all moving together across the tracks."

"They follow a very thin silk threads on the ground and it took about 20 minutes to get across the road safely." "We've never seen it before, but he heard about it and explained that they migrate into the bush bush where they will disperse. "

It's like a mass migration of large animals such as reindeer, but at different scales and slower. When they reached the woods, they turn into pupa and butterfly. "It's a rare sight, this is an absolute joy to watch and great experience to get down close and look at them. "

Did You Green Mascot Origins Android

When googling the internet to find the origin of the green-colored creature, not many sources that have a satisfactory answer. But of the many that there are a small number who have a plausible reason why the mascot was named Android and why shape like that.

It should be noted that all of this explanation is not an official Google explanation. But you deserve to know. Check it out!

Perhaps Google's Android mascot maker while still a teenager so infatuated with the game called Gauntlet: The Third Encounter. Why is that?

Gauntlet: The Third Encounter is made ​​by Atari arcade games that exist in the era of the 90s. This game only lasted a short time and then disappeared. In Gauntlet there are some characters that one of them named Android. If the other characters in human form then Android is shaped weird creature that could have been called a robot.

As in the picture, the Android is gray with two antennas on the head. By changing the color of gray to green and clarify the shape of the foot and hand, is not Gauntlet Android becomes very similar to Google's Android? Please see the video below to find out a little about the game Gauntlet: The Third Encounter and being named Android that is in it.

Yes, there are many artists and designers whose work is inspired by previous works. While not exactly 100% is permissible only seemed to imitate. Either the green creature with Google Android. Whether it is a grandson of the Gauntlet Android or indeed nothing at all, only Google knows.


Cart racing in Colombia

A unique race titled 'Roller Cart XXIII Festival' held in Medellin, Colombia, Sunday (25 / 9). In this title, number of participants in action by driving a homemade wagon on a street segment is declining. (Photo: REUTERS / Albeiro Lopera)

A child in Cambodia suckling on a cow


Eating cow's milk is certainly unusual for a baby. But what if there are babies who do so directly against a cow? That's what happens in a village in Cambodia. A boy named Sophat Tha (20 months) used to direct feeding on a cow. According to the grandfather, Oeung Um, the custom is carried out since the boy's parents left the village to work in Thailand. (Photo: AP Photo)


1 Husband, Wife 39, 94 Children and 33 Grandchildren

Barcroft Media >> Ziona Chana, so the name of this man from India. He was already stepping 67 years.

He has a very large family. Unmitigated, 39 women he married. From the results of the marriage, she has 94 children and 33 grandchildren. The number of families were still coupled with the presence of 14 stepdaughter brought by some of his wife.

Ziona and his family lived in a house built on a hill in the village of Baktwang, Nizoram,India. See it, Ziona family houses similar to flats. The house was floored 4 and has 100rooms.

How about food? In one night the family could spend 30 chickens, 60 kg of potatoes,and 100 kg of rice. When eating together, like the dining room became crowdedrestaurant.

Ziona is the head of a religious sect 'Chana', founded by his father in 1942. Zionabelieve that he would be able to rule the world when his family members has reached400 people.