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Fetish... :D
 
(Fender Custom Furniture)

What can one say about Hemeroscopium House in Madrid, by Antón García-
Abril? It was built in just seven days, out of seven massive
structural elements. And yes, that thing cantilevering out the front
on top is a swimming pool.
 
(via TreeHugger)

This is exactly the kind of chair I need for welcoming friends here in
my little home sweet home... Yesterday's night dinner teaches ;)

(via PicoCool)

British inventor Josh Silver began working on eyeglasses that can be tuned by the wearer in 1985. His goal is to bring better vision to a billion people worldwide who cannot afford, or don't have access to, an optometrist.

Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device's tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles.
 
The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription.
 
Silver's goal is to distribute a billion pairs of his adaptive glasses to poor people by 2020 (the pun in the year is intended, I'm sure). Already, 30,000 pairs have been given out in 15 countries. "The reaction is universal," says Major Kevin White, formerly of the US military's humanitarian programme, who organised the distribution of thousands of pairs around the world after discovering Silver's glasses on Google. "People put them on, and smile. They all say, 'Look, I can read those tiny little letters.'"
 
Silver hopes to get the cost of manufacturing each pair down to a dollar each.
 
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The crazy thing out here is not the Apple pie...

A different kind of hotellerie... WhitePod.

Nice, but... Quite pessimistic, isn't it? :)
 
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Jakevai in giro per il mondo, mi porti delle cose meravigliose?

Dopo aver inaugurato lo scorso 23 dicembre il proprio Royal Channel su YouTube,
oggi la regina Elisabetta d'Inghilterra, accompagnata dal consorte principe
Filippo, ha visitato gli uffici londinesi di Google, accolta dal presidente
di Google EMEA Nikesh Arora e dal co-fondatore di YouTube Chad Hurley. Qui le info.