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This Is Awesome – Inception Park
Inception Park is a short video directed by Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films in which roller coasters fly above the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It looks as awesome as it sounds:
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History’s Famous Photos In Color
Photoshop has given the new colors to the history’s famous photo shots.
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Awesome Waterproof Solution for Your Gadgets: Liquepel
This is awesome and will save your gadget from an untimely death due to water damage. Liquipel is a revolutionary process that applies a waterproof coating to your electronic device to protect them in the event of accidental exposure to liquids. It is not visible to the human eye, virtually undetectable and Liquipel will not compromise the look, feel, and performance of your electronics.
Liquipel penetrates the entire device as a whole, including all of the vital components inside and out to provide optimal protection against accidental contact with liquids.
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World’s Most Expensive Photograph
Andreas Gursky’s photograph of the Rhine river fetched a whopping $4.3 Million USD at auction yesterday. The painting is massive: 143 inches by 73 inches. Gursky is known to only produce 6 copies of each of his photos, of which usually 5 end up in museum collections. In the case of the ‘Rhine II’ piece, the other copies are owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, Munich’s Pinakothek der Modern, and the Glenstone Collection in Potomac, Maryland.
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The Green City In The United Arab Emirates
The craziness in UAE still continues – this time, thankfully it’s green. Masdar is a city in the United Arab Emirates that will run completely on solar energy and other renewable energy sources. The final stages of Masdar will be complete between 2020 and 2025 and wil be home to over 45,000 people and 1,500 businesses.
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Anatomy of a Smart City : Infographic
A look at how smart city concepts and projects are different in the developing world, and what technologies and systems are needed to bring them to fruition – via Postscapes
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Awesome Ceramic Tile Coaster Set
How awesome are these ceramic tile coaster set? They come as a set of 4, each with it’s own diagonal graphic design. Place them together for a large teapot. ($85).
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Lionel Richie Tea Set
Awesome Lionel Richie tea pot and cup currently sold out but can be made to order here. In other news… I wonder where you are, and I wonder what you do. Are you somewhere feeling lonely, or is someone loving you?
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Nike Back4TheFuture Posters
The Nike Back4TheFuture Twitter account (@NikeB4TF) just tweeted out these new posters for the ongoing promotional campaign of the Nike MAG sneakers.
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The $8 Million Maybach Exelero
This one-off Maybach Exelero is now for sale for a cool $8 Million after rapper Birdman (who famously claimed on twitter he had purchased it) failed to pay for it. Birdman currently owns a Maybach Landaulet valued at around $1.5 million, as well as a Bugatti Veyron that cost $2 million. The Exelero is a one-off Maybach concept car that was commissioned by tire manufacturer Fulda back in 2005 for testing of its high-speed tires.
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Adolf Naef’s Vintage Octopus Illustrations
The Biodiversity Heritage Library on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution just released the work of Adolf Naef (1883-1949), a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist who studied the squid Loligo vulgaris, the subject of his dissertation. Below are some of the awesome illustrations from the study.…