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Railroad Probe by Regimantas Vegele

Regimantas Vegele designer from Vilnius, Lithuania has designed concept of device for inspection of flaws or levels of damage of all elements on the railroad. Device is using vision and laser inspection system together with ultrasonic transducers. Device sends data to system and all collected data are synchronized, GPS coordinates are attached...

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to Lead World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Committee

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been appointed chairman of the committee tasked to support theWorld Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project. The appointment is the first accepted in Finland by the former president and CEO of Nokia Corporation after his term ended at Nokia.The committee, consisting of 45 opinion leaders and specialists from various...

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation-from the basics of "How to Draw a Line" to the complexities of color theory-provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy, making concrete what too often is left nebulous or open-ended in the architecture curriculum.Each lesson utilizes a two-page...

Bisynk Sink Reminds Us To Appreciate Our Easy Access to Safe and Clean Water

Living in a country where we have abundant water resources can sometimes make us forget to appreciate it. In other part of the world, human survival is threatened by the shortage of water. Some people in Africa have to walk 4 miles or more in order to have access to water. The weightof water they can carry on their heads is about the average...

TokyoFlash Kisai Console Watch

Tokyo Flash has unveiled Kisai Console as their latest concept to reality watch. Voted by fans, Kisai Console, originally called Bright Time, has been developed based on feedback and now it’s available for you to buy for $200. Using only high quality stainless steel, Console features 3 carefully drilled zones, each one fitted with a curved,...

NASA lộ 3 mẫu siêu máy bay thương mại

Cơ quan vũ trụ Mỹ (NASA) vừa hé lộ 3 mẫu siêu máy bay chở khách giành cho năm 2025.Mẫu siêu máy bay mới vừa được NASA tiết lộ trông giống như những cỗ máy bay khổng lồ trong phim khoa học viễn tưởng. Tuy nhiên, nhưng mẫu siêu máy bay thương mại này có thể trở thành hiện thực vào năm 2012.Mẫu siêu máy bay này được Boeing thiết kế theo đơn...

University of Cincinnati Electric Bike Project

Ebike Studio - Summer 2010 from James Sloss on Vimeo.How do you show a semester's worth of work? In a 2 minute time lapse of course. Check out the above video of a small team of 3rd year students from UC posted by James Sloss. The video focusses mainly on the prototyping phase of the project, but you can see a bunch more detail on the "Borough...