Luxury watches host some of the most interesting and beautiful designs known, from moving belts on the Devon Tread 1 to the pistons, bellows and dynamic liquid on the HYT-H1.
The HYT watch is something to marvel at, claiming that it is a first in watch-making history to feature a liquid-filled hour ring that is pushed by moving pistons and bellows (know as hydro-mechanics).
Price: $45.000
Check out the video below for the epic video!
Source: HYT
At today’s Education themed event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, Apple has released a newer version of it’s popular book store: iBooks 2 (available now to update). This update bring’s the iPad into the classroom by replacing the hard-copy textbooks with interactive versions (e-textbooks I guess?) at a fraction of the price.
iBooks 2 allows students to download the relevant textbooks for their classes providing a massively visual and most interestingly, interactive experience. One of the first books for download is E.O Wilson’s ‘Life on Earth’, I’ve had a little look through the book and it is amazing, you can easily see how attractive these will be for students and schools alike with it’s interactive sections spread out over the pages along with high quality videos from experts in the field. Pages in this book for example include content focusing on Insects. Here the student can learn by interacting with one of the elements on the page that can be full-screened, the activity shows different parts on different insects. You press on the thorax and the images above highlight that particular part.
Imagine a whole class using these and the teacher dictating them through the activity: gone are the days of hearing “…turn to page 40 in your textbooks”. Now it’s more like, “…open your iPad’s at section one and complete the activity.” The future of this idea looks exciting indeed, but at the current cost’s of iPad’s, will school’s bite?
The books look and work fantastically but the sizes, well, their not small. This biology example is 1Gb, imagine a whole syllabubs on your device or even a whole University course. I suppose you could manage which books are needed for what day and install them before the day begins (that then don’s new excuses such as: “Miss, can I borrow a book? I forgot to install mine this morning.” Or, “Can I borrow your’s? My iPad has crashed.”) In the future, as iPad’s get cheaper, each student can get an iPad – like some do with laptops. These would then act solely as textbook holders allowing you to keep watching films and playing games on the one at home.
What do you think about the iBook’s update? Will it be a success?
We all love music – it defines who we are as an individual. Imagine listening to your tunes in comfort, no more on bus seats or train journeys wearing headphones. The award winning Egg Chair merged with some powerful speakers…that’s it, there’s your comfort right there. This merge in beauty is the Acoustic Immersion Pod.
The ‘immersive’ experiance comes from the chair’s interior, open-cell acoustic foam (the stuff used in professional recording studios) makes sure that the sound is directed and heard by you and you alone while still functioning as a chair. When have you wanted to listen to your music at home but can’t because someone is watching tv? Or you and your room mate battling it out in an epic music war by turning each song up louder until an unrecognisable mess is produced? In my experience anyway, allot!
The chair is perfect for home entertainment too, the 5 1/4″ 40-watt speakers provide amazing 5.1 surround sound. On-screen explosions are not only heard but felt too, under the seat is a 500-watt subwoofer putting you right into the centre of the action. You will never miss that grenade that was thrown at you, walk straight past enemy footsteps or even mishear that crucial dialogue in the latest block buster.
Get yours on Hammacher today! They specialise in some really ‘unexpected’ stuff.
Puzzles, infuriating but satisfying at the same time. This particular type of puzzle began as a small and portable 3D sphere whereby the player has to navigate a small ball from one point to another, seems easy huh? well, not when the path is interweaving and covered in obstacles its not. The dificulty lies in the player having to deal with dimention and gravity shifts, the ball runs on walls that become floors and ramps that become hills. The small ones like on the left is popular amongst kids…
…but prepare to meet the perplexus in adulthood!
The Biggun': The Superplex
Does the puzzle evolve into this like a Pokemon once completed? Close but no, it’s creator 
Watching the video below of the finished product, I just love how it moves on its Gimbal Rings – so smooth! Such a design marvel deserves to go on the list.
The Superplex is limited to five units only being made and each one comes with a $30,000 cost. You can get one at Hammacher – really, you can!
The original Perplexus:
The finished Superplexus:
The highly popular computer game-like film has finally been brought into the real world – well, it’s iconic Light Cycles anyway; don’t expect to be zapping into your computer screen any time soon. Any TRON fans reading…you may want to hold back on that Ford Focus because you have some money to save!
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This Light Cycle is an engineering and design marvel, it’s fibre-glass body recreates the sleek flowing and unearthly design. The people at Stone Parker Brothers’ Choppers in Florida wanted to make it as real as possible, from it’s size to it’s design; from the colours to the lights (it needed the lights, hence, Light Cycle).
The final bike isn’t just talk, oh no, it can walk the walk. Well, run the run. Fast, really fast. The Light Cycle can travel at speeds of up to 120mph thanks to the Suzuki 996cc 4 stroke engine that it houses. The tires have been taken form a truck, modified and used to blend the body and wheels together in it’s flowing design. Oh, and did I mention that it is road legal! But honest…would you travel at high speeds on that when you are sitting in a near horizontal position with your feet at the back wheels? …..I’m only posing the questions here.
The company says the bikes are built to order so changing the colour of the lights I’m guessing will be allowed but you must hurry, only five are to be built and I’m sorry to say, four have gone. One bike has been taken up by Disney after seeing the bike’s construction on Youtube. The TRON rejuvenating company are wanting to use it for public displays and events around the world, most probably in their world famous parades.
The bike making company have definitely stuck to what it’s statement is online, “If you can dream it…we can build it”. My next opinion, the bat mobile (that’s if they can build stuff with four wheels).
What do you think about it? You think it’s cool?
Price: $55,000
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