Tag Archives: coolness

As part of a plan to relieve street congestion, China is planning to build huge articulated buses which passengers cars can drive under. Via Engadget: Despite the silly picture and the eccentric “3D Express Coach” branding, this cunning project by Shenzhen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment actually makes sense. The idea is to make use of the space between regular-size cars …

The $6B Marina Sands Hotel opened in Singapore this weekend with a 650-foot infinity pool on the 55th floor. More cool/scary photos here. What global recession?

A gigantic rainbow flag is flying atop Seattle’s Space Needle this weekend. Lurleen at Pam’s House Blend has the story.

Or for people like me, who can’t see the keyhole without his glasses.

$150 with a USB port for analog to digital recording. Get one here (when they become available.)

An architect in Hong Kong has turned his tiny studio into an “apartment transformer” through clever rolling walls and hidden spaces. His place is the same size as mine, but I think I’d tire quickly of all that rolling. Lazy American.

Here’s how they did it. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

JMG reader Paul in Minnesota tips us to the below image of a meteor exploding into the atmosphere over the midwest last night. The fireball was visible from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, northern Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. Its path was caught by Doppler radar at the National Weather Service in the Quad Cities region.

Jen Carlson at Gothamist finds the greatest stuff.

This is actually an ad for Nissan’s emission-free campaign, but it’s very cool nonetheless.

Gothamist tips us to this clever depiction of NYC being destroyed by old school video games. What, no Asteroids?

No, that isn’t a computer-created image. It’s real world art. The Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai World Expo’s UK Pavillion is exactly that: a 66-feet-tall shrine accented with 60,000 25-feet-long fiber-optic rods on its exterior, each of which contains one or more seeds encased at its tip. And awe-inspiring it certainly is. The rods funnel light into the Seed Cathedral’s …

For no reason other than I’d like to swim in it, here’s the world’s largest swimming pool. Covering 20 acres and stretching half a mile, the swimming hole at Chile’s San Alfonso del Mar resort is a 115-foot-deep, 66-million gallon monster. (An Olympic-size pool is “only” 164 feet long, 6 feet 7 inches deep, 660,000 gallons.) Built for $3.5 million …

Pomplamoose are Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who are known for a style called videosong, which means that everything heard in a recording must appear in the video – every instrument, every vocal. This is their latest, a cover of the just-out collaboration between Lady Gaga and Beyonce. For a lovely morning, take a stroll through their archives. I recommend …

An almost shot-for-shot copy of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage.

And it’s at least 57 times better than the celebrity version. (Via – Towleroad)