Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion is a symbol of Expo 2008 built on Ebro River and a British architecture named Zaha Hadid has experimented with this amazing concept covered by glass fiber concrete from Austrian Company. This stunning concept is 275 meters long and its outer skin has around 29,000 triangles made of innovative sustainable material. The structure of this pavilion promises to be the world class because of its multi level exhibition area focusing on water sustainability. Zaha Hadid has managed to create this magnificent gladiolus shape with a natural air conditioning.
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Jive is a communication device especially designed to get elderly technophobes connected to their friends and family. How it work, Jive uses friend passes to link a physical persons ID with digital life. A user simply links a friend pass to there friend feed account. This will then seamlessly update all of this data onto betty. If the users want to find out more specific details about a person, they can just place that persons ‘friend pass’ onto the screen. The screen will automatically know who that person is, and upload specific updates about that person. No more mouse, just simply put the the avatar onto ‘betty’s’ display to operate Jive.
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Still remember about “future mobile device with advanced search function“? This time, Mac Funamizu has come up with the idea to use this mobile device for diet. Usually people don’t care about their nutrition and keep on eating anything they feel like. But if you have some diet gadget that can tell you the amount of carbohydrates or vitamins, or proteins or sugar that diet is containing you might control your eating habits. You just need to take this gadget on the top of the food and it will deliver all the details just by pinpointing the dish you want to check. So, this gadget will definitely help you in keeping your body fit.
Designer : Mac Funamizu
A unique multi-functional dining table from Poggenpohl. It works for you as a kitchen table, cooking top, oven and also a refrigerator! Its stylish looks makes it suitable for every furniture type! This stylish multi-functional futuristic table also serves as a dining desk. The desk opens up to a steel plate, and a table to cut what you want to in the kitchen. It also comes with 3 pairs of stylish chairs that suits the table.
Its structure is made of stone with a woody and a glossy finish. This dining table helps a family stay closer and it will give your food a perfect garnish you would expect. The opening of the dining table is due to the functioning of the longitudinal engine regulator present in the midst of the table. This unique work from Pogenpohl is definitely going to help all the house wives. Too bad there is no more detail images we can use, we’ll keep you posted if they come up with more images.
Source : Poggenpohl via HomeTone
Soon, textbook will be just an old school tools, Papyrus will come and replace them all. The idea of Papyrus is based on growing popularity of communication tools such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc, students are more connected than ever these days. Papyrus is an inexpensive e-reader which is designed to allow on screen note taking with a stylus, as well as tagging the content. Students will be able to share these tags and discuss it among them.
One of the most important details about Papyrus is how it is so different from a traditional style tablet PC or PDA. First, the unit is far less expensive at around $100. With a combination of a removal of audio, high-end graphics card, Ethernet port, and a textbook publisher/manufacturer subsidy (due to the subscription based service now that they have no overhead costs of shipping/storage/most manufacturing costs since their books are now digital) the cost is quite reasonable. Second, the device has a much longer battery life (around 30 hours) from using an E-Ink screen. Third, Papyrus’ stripped-down, specialized interface makes it accessible to a broad range of users. It’s simple enough that faculty and other adults won’t be intimidated or annoyed, yet functional enough that students will feel like they’re using something current.
Papyrus can also help student to tackle their fear of drawing attention to themselves. This device will place the students in a familiar environment, giving them a safe and familiar venue to speak out without unwanted attention. And great thing is, Papyrus cost less that textbooks, and also eliminating manufacturing and shipping costs and passing the savings on the students.
Via : IGreenSpot
