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The New Mercedes-Benz Sedan Can Ward Off Bullets
Mercedes-Benz's latest luxury vehicle is in a resistance class by itself. The company unveiled its ultra-tough S600 Guard sedan, which has a fully bulletproof body and can withstand great impact — but judging from the outside, it looks like a normal Mercedes sedan.
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Plans for floating snowflake hotel with view of the Northern Lights
If you want to get the best view of Aurora Borealis, it is best to be as far away from light pollution as possible. So this new floating hotel could be the perfect answer for holidaymakers who want to spend their evenings looking skyward for a glimpse of the glorious Northern Lights. Rather appropriately, the new luxury hotel will be shaped like a snowflake and will be based in the fjords near the Norwegian town of Tromso, which sits within the Arctic Circle.
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These Cycling Desks Charge Your Phone - And Your Muscles - While You Work
At the office or airport, 30 minutes of easy pedaling on a WeBike will get you a full iPhone charge and keep you fit.
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The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters of the ’80s and ’90s
A new book of John Alvin's art sheds new light on his classic creations of the 1980s and ’90s.
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Meet the $3,000,000 dollar land yacht that no one will buy
Though it awaits a buyer, the recreational vehicle is poised to become the most expensive model of its kind.
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Glass-Free Menagerie: New Zoo Concept Gets Rid Of Enclosures
An architectural firm is designing a zoo that will forgo cages, working barriers into a natural landscape.
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Glass-Free Menagerie: New Zoo Concept Gets Rid Of Enclosures
For animal lovers, zoos can be a mixed bag. It's amazing to be in shouting distance of magnificent wild animals, but it's hard not to get the feeling that great apes, big cats and other creatures don't really love being behind bars, walls and windows. Now, a Danish architectural firm is working with the Givskud Zoo and safari park in Denmark to break down those walls and create what they're calling Zootopia.
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Windowless Airplane Will Give Passengers High-Res Panoramic Views
You don’t need a window for these views. Paris-based design company Technicon Design recently won an award for their IXION Windowless Jet Concept. The idea is to provide a 360-degree view using cameras mounted on the plane’s exterior to capture the scenery and then project that on high-res screen on the interior cabin walls and ceiling.
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Aero-X Hoverbike Takes Off in 2017 with Grounding $85,000 Price Tag
Engineering company Aerofex is about to blow your mind with its new invention, the Aero-X hover bike. The incredible vehicle can fly upwards of 10 feet off the ground at 45 mph for approximately 75 minutes!
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New dimension for digital cities
Can greed and wastefulness be removed from our future cities?
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'Creepy'? New 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' book cover confuses readers
Controversy over a new “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” cover
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Are These Baby-Shaped Pears Creepy Or Adorable?
Chinese company Fruit Mould lets you grow pears shaped like fat, sleeping infants, in case that's your thing.
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The Ultimate Backyard Escape
This incredible $2 million pool features five colossal waterfalls, a lazy river and a tunnel deep enough for scuba diving.
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A windowless jet concept
France’s Technicon Design came up with a creative new jet concept… no windows. Instead, the design team, “quickly settled on the controversial yet interesting idea of removing the windows from the cabin and using existing or very near future technology to display the exterior environment on flexible screens, which cover the walls and ceiling of the cabin, via external cameras.
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The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career
Jim Yurchenco was responsible for squeezing the guts inside the impossibly slim Palm V. He helped build the mouse for the Apple Lisa, which was significant in that it was the first mouse ever used by regular people. He was the first full-time employee at the company that would become Ideo, the massively influential design firm. But before all that, he was a sculptor.
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Baseball Bat With an Axe Handle Brings More Power, Fewer Injuries
The shape of a baseball bat hasn’t changed much in the past 150 years, and the axe is many times older than that. By combining those age-old tools, however, the makers of the Axe Bat believe they can bring something new to the Grand Old Game.
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MAKING OF "Futurama 3D"
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The Cutting-Edge Butter Knife of Your Dreams Is Finally Here
Sliced bread is synonymous with innovation, but really, how wonderful is it if a chilled pat of butter can trash a piece of pumpernickel toast? Fortunately, a trio of Australian designers—Craig Andrews, Sacha Pantschenko, and Norman Oliveria—have come together to revamp breakfast with a new knife/grater combo that can transform a densely packed brick of butter into easily spreadable strands of creamy delight.
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Everyone's making a sapphire phone, here's Huawei's
Rumors of the next-gen iPhone donning a scratch-proof sapphire screen have been going around since the Apple sapphire plant announcement, and it appears that Huawei wants in on the hype, as it prepares for the launch of a sapphire edition Ascend P7.
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Coming soon? Standing instead of sitting on planes
It's not some miserable dystopic movie scene about class polarization. The vertical passenger seat - or "standing cabin" - may be the next big cost-cutting move in aviation, according to a new report whose author says the concept could be here within five years.
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