Cool factor: Movable floor tiles
Developer: Hiroo Iwata
My take: These movable floor tiles are covered with KURALON® EC, a textile made of conductive fibers that detects in which direction youâre heading and then automatically arranges as…
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Cool factor: Airplane landing on a road
My take: Never heard, nor seen someone land an airplane on a road. Ride along as the pilot lands a home-built airplane on a road in Florida. The camera inside the cockpit gives you that experience which you..
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Amidst the best of tattoos youâve seen till date, there will be one, a cynosure that excites you to the limits. The only difference, knowing ever human is a separate entity each with a different taste, I find solace in what I witness here. A…
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Takuo Toda, a Japanese engineer and chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association has set a record for the longest flight for a paper airplane. Confirmed by Guinness World Records, his single sheet paper plane, measuring 10 cm from tip to tail…
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Cool factor: Potato portraits
Artist: Ginou Choueiri, a Lebanese artist living in Beirut
She says: “I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin…
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Cool factor: Transformer USB Flash Drive
Memory: 2GB
My take: Takara, a Japanese toy company founded in 1955, is perhaps best known for producing the transforming toylines. The USB flash drive (featured above) is one from their bucket. It does..
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Cool factor: Wooden spoon chair
Artist: Jonas Lyndby Jensen
My take: Changing aesthetics in designing has widened the bridge between traditional and modern designs. This is mainly because of synchronization (a career by choice, not by chance).
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Are you familiar with the latest trend in sneakers? Well, just buy two pairs of the same sneakers with different colors, and then swap them around. Go be the first to do it, cuz unique/crazy ideas require a maniac envoy, at least to begin with. Who…
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Cool factor: LEGO Infinity Plaza
Artist: Tim Inman
My take: LEGO creations as a time-pass, hobby, profession has grown over the years, especially in recent times. The advent is a factor of creativity, further backed by brick enthusiasts like…
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Cool factor: Swiss chocolate knife
About: This mouth watering âSwiss Chocolate Knife Gift Setâ is made from the finest Swiss chocolate and filled with hazelnut praline. Weighing about an ounce, it is modeled after the âSwiss Army Spartan…
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