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Vitrahaus: A Building With a View, and a View, and a View, and a View [Architecture]
Feb 20th
Vitra, a Swiss furniture manufacturer, recently completed the Vitrahaus as a presentation space for their collection. Yes, that’s a real photograph. The building’s comprised of 12 stacked “houses,” and if you can believe it, the inside is no less stunning.
Designed by Herzog and de Meuron, Vitrahaus’s large, house-shaped windows provide various views of the surrounding area during the day—it is located on the border of Read more ...
Navigon adds some unique features to GPS app
Feb 9th
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch
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20 Things We Already Know About Apple’s iTablet
Jan 27th
Here I was dreading getting ready to write an article about how the January 2010
iTablet/iSlate/iPad release was poised to replicate the January 2007 iPhone release — a completely unannounced yet still massively hyped product that everyone thinks will be a minor iteration on the previous big-hit product, with all the surrounding cheers and jeers to go with it — when the saintly folks over at Read more ...
Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make Food Cold? [Microwaves]
Jan 4th
Microwaves can transform a frozen pizza into hot, melted goodness in four minutes flat, but they can’t rescue your melted ice-cream sundae. Or can they?
To cook food, a microwave oven converts voltage into high-frequency electromagnetic microwaves. The molecules in food-especially water and fat-absorb this energy and wiggle at high speeds, causing them to heat rapidly and warm the surrounding food. Although quickly turning leftovers cold would be Read more ...
8 Ghost Detecting Gadgets That Can Confirm Your Sanity [Tgif]
Oct 30th
With Halloween coming up this weekend, it seemed like the perfect time to discuss a problem far too many of us face—homes that are haunted by evil spirits.These gadgets can confirm you are not completely crazy.
Nikola Tesla’s Spirit Radio is built with a simple crystal radio circuit, but it has the ability to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic interference. Some, like Tesla himself, believed that it had the power to pick up on supernatural forces. It actually creeped him out:
“My first observations positively terrified me as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I Read more ...
