The city I’m talking about is Wuppertal in western Germany. It’s home to Schwebebahn or suspended monorail which was opened in 1901. Its full name is the “Eugen Langen Monorail Suspension Railway” (Einschienige Hängebahn System Eugen Langen). Of course the city doesn’t have a steampunk look now. However, the old pictures of the town tell us a different story.
Here are some numbers and details about the monorail.
The route is 13.3 kilometers (about 8 miles) long, about 12 meters (36 feet) above the surface of the river Wupper between Oberbarmen and Sonnborner Strasse and 8 meters (24 feet) above the streets.
The train consist of 2 cars like trams in Eastern Europe. The cars are 24 meters long and have 4 doors. One carriage can seat 48 and stand approximately 130 passengers. The top speed of the monorail train is 60 km/h (40 mph).
It always puts a smile on my face when I see such clocks. I enjoy the different and sometimes bizarre designs but when it comes to telling time that’s where the problems start. We are accustomed to round clocks with 3 (sometimes 2) hands.
So this is a time cube but instead of hands it has triangles. The large one is the hour hand the middle one - minutes and the smallest one is for minutes. I think and this is only a guess, that you can tell time by looking at the numbers near the black line. What I like about this clock is that it transform into different shapes for 12 hours.
This is an amazing way to refresh you kitchen table. To make this you’ll need some blue glass(you may use any other color), transparent plastic, an optical cable and good hands. As you can see here the author made it look like there’s a river flowing across the stall.
Sadly the site that provided these photos had no info on the author. If you know who the author is or his/her site please leave a comment.
Using paper to make elegant rings is what I call creative. Tithi Kutchamuch and Nutre Arayavanish of TT:NT have designed a range of fold-out paper jewelery. The rings come laser cut on a sheet of paper and the user assembles them when needed much like origami. It’s just paper but I’m sure such rings will draw much attention.
It took days of works and lots of cassette tapes but in the end the Dutch designer Patrick Schuur made himself a great closet. Each of the 918 cassettes were individually screwed to the wooden frame. Three doors provide access to the huge storage space inside. Now the cassette closet is being auctioned and the current bid is 499.00 Euro or $625. The link to the auction page is after the jump.
Titanium goggles or the Titanium and Brass Photochromatic, Variable-Aperture Goggles which I think is a cool name for such amazing goggles. It took the creator 1 year to make them. The coolest feature of these goggles is the iris. Not only do they make the goggles look cool they also improve the sharpness of vision at long distances at their smallest aperture. They do this by increasing the depth of field by limiting the aperture similar to a camera lens.
If you work hard dreams come true. As you’ve guessed from the title Ken made this lambo countach. It took him 10 years but the result is amazing. Ken is an aluminum worker and TIG welder and his car is 100% hand made. The car has all aluminum interior with leather dash, Momo seats and 5 point harness, on board halon fire bottle and a quick release steering wheel. Low to the ground at 2700 lbs. The last obstacle in making this great car was getting it out of the garage
The purpose for such a fork is simple - make is easier to twirl spaghetti. However, I get the feeling while they were optimizing the fort for spaghetti twirling they forgot about safety. I mean, this fork looks like a torture device and after using it you might end up with a few more piercing holes in your lip.
Icelandic artist and designer Katrin Olina launched 2 amazing installations. One multimedia installation, the Crystal Ball is in Hong Kong the other is half the world away in the Reykjavik Art Museum. Both installation are full of color, strange forms and characters. Seeing Olina’s works is like taking some LSD but in a good way (if that even makes any sense). Anyway, I simply adore the colors of the installations.
