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Pick Chair

Designer Dror Benshetrit has come up with an excellent idea to save space in your apartment, get some more sitting space and decorate the walls at the same. The pick chairs are can be used as decorative covers, when the guests come you can turn the decorations into chairs. I’m not sure how much weight they can handle so best to keep your large friends on regular chairs, just to be safe because the one chair starts at $1,630. I don’t know who would anyone by these chairs, because if you have money to by these chairs you’d be able to afford a bigger apartment.


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Motherboard Wall

Remember way back when we all hanged CDs on our walls. Well Chris and Aubrey went a little further, they have made walls using old motherboards. They’ve bought 150 lbs of motherboards from Ebay for $1.35 per pound. It took them roughly 6 hours to assemble one wall. The result was several cool motherboard walls. They look neat but I don’t envy the guy who has to clean them.


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Gateway

This is the new project by Norwegian architect Snøhetta in the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates construction of which is set to begin later this year. Gateway will be situated 150 km east of Dubai and will mark the gateway to the emirate and form the entrance to the new planned capital city of Ras Al Khaimah.

The urban master plan for the city is currently being under taken by the Netherlands based architectural practice OMA.

The surrounding desert and mountains influenced the design of the Gateway. The design provides many varieties of shade and protected, intimate space. In the center of the complex there will be a 200 m tower housing a 5 star hotel that the United Arab Emirates are so famous for.


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The Dreaded Blue Screen of Death Hits the Beijing Olympics

During the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics 4 days ago people could see something that annoys windows users to the core. Seeing the dreaded blue screen of death on public events never gets old but this time it was taken to a brand new level – the Olympic games.


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Dome House

Dubbed the house of the 21st century the styrofoam dome house has all the qualities of a good home. You might not think that styrofoam is not the best material for the house but the Japan Dome House Co., Ltd insists that styrofoam is perfect material for building houses.

The Dome House does not rust, rot or attract termites. It is also highly resistant to earthquakes and typhoons. In addition, the walls, which are treated with a flame retardant, emit no toxic fumes in a fire.

Assembling the house is fairly easy. Each section weighs 80 kg and it takes 3 hours to put the house together. The floor space of the dome house is 475 sq ft (44.2 sq meters) If it’s not enough you can attach a second dome to the house.

The price for the house is $30,000 not including the cost of transport, assembly, interior construction, etc.

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New Olympics sports logos

The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Many people are excited about it and some even made their own sport logos. The fans even made news logos of sports which are played after the Olympics.


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Batmobile Tumbler Replica

I think there’s no person who had seen “The Dark Night” and wasn’t impressed by it. Bob Dullam was among them. He has built his own batmobile Tumbler from scratch all by himself. The car is exactly like the Tumbler from the movie, Big rear wheels, afterburner Bob even made himself a batsuit. According to Bob he ha spent $50,000 – $70,000 on the Tumbler. His next project is to build the batpod.


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If Websites Came With Warning Labels

I’m sure everyone of you have came across some sites that made want to puke. Funforever was one of them if you remember the old background :)

Cracked.com has hosted a contest where they asked people to photoshop warning labels on sites. The winner, Codespyder got $50 for his Google label. I found the facebook label to be the funniest but that’s just me


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3.6 GHz Toaster

I’ve seen quite a few of moddings some of them were kitchen appliances but the toaster modding is a first for me. Jonathan Kimak made this toaster into a fully functional computer with a 3.6 GHz processor, DVD-rom and even a router. Too bad it doesn’t make toasts anymore :)


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Helios

Helios is a revolutionary, solar-powered grill designed by Sean McGreevy. It has a reflective solar dish which collects sunlight and transforms it into usable energy by heating a coil in the grill. If there’s no sunlight the grill can be plugged into a socket so you can cook food at any time of day. I think this is a great idea, the less burning coal the better.


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