Sunday 22 December 2013
Wink Snap a Photo with Google Glass
It’s easier than ever to take a photograph with Google Glass. Just wink. That is, if you have a pair of Google Glasses and you can wink with your right eye. I don’t and I can’t.
But, the feature is definitely cool and according to the company’s blog post on the topic, the wink feature could eventually be used for more than snapping images. You could wink a taxi meter to pay the fare, for example, or wink at a pair of shoes in a shop window to make that purchase.
Google Glass An Augmented Reality Is Here To Stay
Or, “You wink at a cookbook recipe and the instructions appear right in front of you — hands-free, no mess, no fuss.”
Don’t accidentally get grapefruit pulp stuck in your eye, though, you might be winking uncontrollably without knowing it and snapping photographs left and right of God knows what.
Saturday 21 December 2013
Amazing Treehouse
The Yellow Tree house Restaurant
The Yellow Tree house Restaurant is located in Auckland, New Zealand. It was designed by architects from Pacific Environments Architects, an impressive venue that is used for fine dining, private parties, corporate functions and more.
The Invisible Tree house Hotel
This cool tree house hotel is located in Harrads, Sweden and it features a reflective outer surface which makes it difficult to spot. It is suspended above the ground from wires that are attached to four trees.
Okinawa Tree house Restaurant
This is not a real Banyan tree, it is a replica but it is so cool that it still deserves a mention. This is an Asian restaurant that definitely stands out and there is an elevator inside the tree trunk.
Trillium Treehouse
The Trillim Treehouse is one of the treehouses located at Treehouse Point in Washington. There are five treehouses at the property that are used for weddings and other events.
The HemLoft
The HemLoft looks cool and it actually has a very interesting story attached to it. A secret tree house that was built on crown land by a man with a passion for carpentry who had lost his job and was sleeping in his car.
UFO Treehouse Hotel
The UFO Treehouse Hotel was designed by some of Scandanavias leading architects and for it they were awarded The Swedish Grand Tourism Prize in 2011.
4Treehouse
The 4Treehouse by Lukasz Kos was constructed around a base of four fir trees near Lake Muskoka in Ontario, Canada. Lukasz Kos is the co-founder of a Toronto design and architecture firm named Testroom.
Broccoli Treehouse
This one doesn’t really do anything, but it is really cool! I think I could probably design and build one like this myself.
Friday 20 December 2013
Amazing Air-Powered LEGO Car
Life Size Lego Car Powered by Air
Melbourne entrepreneur and marketer Steve Sammartino and his Romanian buddy Raul Oaida, who happens to be a ‘technology genius,’ are truly insane.
The adult children teamed up to not only create a full sized Lego car made up of over half a million pieces, but they even made sure the car was completely functional.
Better yet, the engine–which has four orbital engines and a total of 256 pistons–runs on pure air pressure.
Super Awesome Micro Project Factoids:
- The engine is made from standard Lego pieces and runs on air!
- The engine has four orbital engines and a total of 256 pistons.
- More than 500,000 LEGO pieces.
- Top speed around 20-30km (We drive it slow as are scared of giant lego explosion)
- Built in Romania and shipped to a secret location in Melbourne.
- It's a Hot Rod design, mainly because hot rods are cool.
Thursday 19 December 2013
Hotel in Munich Transformed in 88 Different Ways
This is a real building; you’re looking at an actual hotel in Munich, made much, much more interesting by Víctor Enrich. The site is the latest addition to the photographer’s portfolio of mind-bending architectural distortions; here, he’s transformed the same building 88 times, each more WTF than the last.
The most amazing thing is that they all look… believable. They obviously aren't feasible as brick-and-mortar constructions, but somehow he manages to make it seem like they could be.
The most amazing thing is that they all look… believable. They obviously aren't feasible as brick-and-mortar constructions, but somehow he manages to make it seem like they could be.
Fake Window (Beautiful Scenery)
Civil engineers keep coming up with wonderful and amazing engineering products. One of the main factors that they need to consider is cost efficiency of the particular project. How to save materials and how to utilize them smartly is very important.
In China, new apartment complex has been constructed in the city of Qingdao and is being mentioned in news with cutting down costs, but how?
In China, new apartment complex has been constructed in the city of Qingdao and is being mentioned in news with cutting down costs, but how?
Do you notice anything strange about this building in Qingdao, Shandong province? The building, recently completed, houses low-cost apartments created by the government.china-qingdao-painted-windows-on-residential-high-rise-apartment.
Here’s a clue. Look at the windows.
The Yichang Meijing (“Beautiful Scenery”) Residential Neighborhood in Qingdao city’s Shibei district is a low-cost high-rise residential complex. On the walls of three buildings many “windows” were neatly painted.china-qingdao-painted-windows-on-residential-high-rise-apartment-
The buildings under construction are affordable low-cost residential real estate. On the outer walls of the north face of the buildings are painted “fake windows” matching the specifications of the windows around it.
Apparently, the fake windows are on an area of the building that houses a staircase where it would have been impractical to have real windows, the government explained, and they were made for purely aesthetic reasons.
Jazzy Laces
Turn those sneakers into slip-on shoes and eliminate the time and trouble of tying those laces every day.
Replace your shoelaces, so there’s no more tying and untying, or tripping over loose laces.
Just slip them through your shoe’s grommets, clip them, and you’re done! Really fun fashion accessory, too!
Just slip them through your shoe’s grommets, clip them, and you’re done! Really fun fashion accessory, too!
Solution for children, or adults too, who are not yet able to handle tethering of shoelaces are … or at least until you learn to make it well enough. Kids will love the time and energy savings, but they’ll really love the way Jazzy Laces® make their shoes unique, replacing traditional shoelaces with colorful, stretchy silicone laces.
This product is suitable for cases where laces of your sporting shoes are loose and slipped easily, thanks to these Jazzy Laces® – straps it to ensure maximum security and ease.
includes 14 pcs Neon Multicolour-Shoelaces, 14 white clips and 14 black clips.
Smart Ring wearable tech.. !
Smartphones are quickly beginning to look like rotaries. The wave of the future—and the direction of flowing research money—seems to be looking into more wearable tech. You've got your Galaxy Gear by Samsung and the Pebble smart watch which is both iOS and Android compatible. And let’s not forget, you've got your Google Glass.
Now we've hit a new high in our search for wearable tech. Using Indiegogo, a crowdfunding service, researchers have surpassed their fund-raising goal of $40,000, raising $187,000 to look into developing a smart ring called—get this—Smarty Ring, that will alert you to text messages, e-mails, Facebook invites, and oncoming calls.The Smarty Ring is a high quality piece of tech-jewelry made from allergy free, surgical quality stainless steel. The simple elegance of this piece makes it suited for both men and women, at an occasion.girl. The exterior of the Smarty Ring is not only fashionable – but waterproof. Take a Smarty Ring anywhere – even where your phone can’t go! Perfect for humid climates or to stay connected on vacation. This makes a great companion for a business professional on vacation who needs lives updates even while swimming!
The dazzling LED display is great for day and night use. Not only is it a charming conversation starter, but you’ll have your friends gawking at this cool gadget! Did you know that most mobile users look at their phones every 6 minutes or so? That’s 150 times a day! Smarty Ring saves you time by having your updates in one convenient location – and that saves your phone’s battery life!
Smarty Ring (video) frees you from searching in your bag for your phone, or from reaching into your back pocket, just to find no new notifications. Its Bluetooth 4.0 technology lets you always get real time updates.
Features:
• Incoming & outgoing call notifications.
• Alerts for Text and E-Mail messages
• Real time updates from Facebook,Twitter, Hangout & Skype.Control your phone without touching it.
• Accept or reject incoming calls
• Make outgoing calls to preset numbers
• Trigger camera
• Control music
• Change profile.
Smarty Ring is not only a clock, but a stop watch and countdown timer you never forget your phone again AND prevent theft!
• Alert your phone when you lost in the crowd.
• Alert goes off even if your phone is in silent mode
• Beeps when your phone is more than 30 feet away from you.
Smarty Ring is easy to use. Simple plug and play process connects your phone to the Smarty Ring with a user-friendly app to manage your smart phone from Smarty Ring. app
• Allows you to change Smarty Ring’s profile.
• Set the time zones and adjust clock.
• Adjust LED brightness.
• Adjust Beeper’s volume
• Assign buttons to control speed dials charger. With Smarty Ring you have a guaranteed running time of 24 hours, so you can be on the go and not waste time charging. This is quite a battery capacity for its size! Plus, the battery has an estimated lifetime of three years, and, better still, its warranty includes a free battery replacement!
Technical specifications:
• Bluetooth 4.0 – nRF51822
• Measurements – 13mm Wide and 4mm Thickness.
• Flexible Battery – 22 maH.
• Surgical stainless steel body
Eco friendly Staircase by Paul Cocksedge
The living staircase’ is actually a combination of a staircase and room, of movement and stillness, vertical and horizontal,’ explains Paul Cocksedge. ‘At every turn, there is an opportunity to stop and look, smell, read, write, talk, meet, think and rest. if a staircase is essentially about going from A to B, there is now a whole world living and breathing in the space between the two.
To transform the function of a series of steps so that they become much more than just a means of transitioning between floors, Paul Cocksedge has envisioned ‘the living staircase’.
The central load bearing pillar is removed from the staircase and replaced by platforms at each level.
View of ‘the living staircase’ from one of the floors.
Diagram depicting the structural evolution of ‘the living staircase’.
ChargeCard for iPhone 4s & 5s
There is nothing worse than realising you need to charge your phone but you do not have the cord with you! The ChargeCard eliminates that problem as you can keep it in your wallet at all times! Reviewers of this product report that this is one of the best iPhone accessories on the market. Never be stuck without your charger again. An excellent gift idea that will definitely get a lot of use. This was originally a kickstarter product and it is now for sale. If you are someone who follows tech developments you might have seen this one before. Convenient, easy and reliable.
These credit card sized iPhone cables are the perfect size to fit in your handbag or wallet. The innovative and interesting design of the ChargeCard makes it very easy to charge your iPhone on the go. It works in the same way as the standard white iPhone cord but is much easier to transport. If you own an iPhone 4, 4s, or 5 then there is ChargeCard compatible with your phone. Easily charge your phone in the office or anywhere there is a standard USB port.
Card fo Iphone 5s
Card for Iphone 4s
These credit card sized iPhone cables are the perfect size to fit in your handbag or wallet. The innovative and interesting design of the ChargeCard makes it very easy to charge your iPhone on the go. It works in the same way as the standard white iPhone cord but is much easier to transport. If you own an iPhone 4, 4s, or 5 then there is ChargeCard compatible with your phone. Easily charge your phone in the office or anywhere there is a standard USB port.
Wednesday 18 December 2013
iPhone / iPad LEGO Cases
Iphone back case.... :)
These awesome cases are the perfect gift for anyone who loves technology and interesting stuff. The first case you see here is the worlds first LEGO brick compatible case for the ipad mini. It features a soft microfiber lining to protect your device from dust and scratches. This is a full coverage case that is designed to protect the front and the back of your device. A snap on hard case that is a lego building surface, cool stuff indeed!
This black BrickCase by small works is LEGO compatible and designed to fit the iPhone 5. It is a one piece molded shell hard-case that leaves plenty of room to access buttons. Awesome!
