Design

740 Gears and 15 Years Later, the Do Nothing Machine Lives Up to Its Name

The inventor of the Do Nothing Machine was a retired clock maker, named Lawrence Wahlstrom. Wahlstrom always had an obsession with gears and after stumbling upon a WWII bomb sight harboring a pile of gears,…

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BionicKangaroo Is Capable Of Mimicking The Bouncy Ways Of The Real Thing

Recently, advancements in robotics came in the form of a robot mimicking a frog and its movements. Now, German company Festo has taken another step in robotics by creating BionicKangaroo, a robot that moves similar…

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Are Vertical High-Speed Trains the Future of Public Transportation?

To save space on land and increase transportation capacity, British designers Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa have designed a skyscraper rail hub with hyper-speed trains that travel vertically. The concept behind the design The basic goal…

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See NASA’s Sci Fi-Looking Morpheus Lander in Action

NASA’s Morpheus lander, which is essentially a vertical take-off and landing rocket, recently completed a very successful test launch. The lander was designed in order to eventually land on planets without humans and is reusable.…

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Ground Breaks on the World’s Next Tallest Building This Month

Saudi Arabia’s $1.2 billion Kingdom Tower is poised to become the tallest building in the world, with the start day for construction finally set for April 27th. The Kingdom Tower is more than one kilometer…

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The Results Are In! You Have To See Our 12 Favorite Winners Of The World’s Most Amazing Architecture!

Architizer, an online architecture database, recently announced the winners of their 2nd Annual A+ Awards, which featured voting from “300 industry leaders” and online voting from the public from more than 100 countries. Altogether, there…

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This Door Handle is Responsible for Increasing Hand Sanitizing Rates from 22% to 77%

PullClean is a new product from British design studio Agency of Design and is essentially a door handle that dispenses hand sanitizer. The product is attempting to reduce the number of people contracting illnesses in…

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New Museum Will Look Like a Giant Salad Bowl

Giant Mirrored “Salad Bowl” is a competition-winning design of art depot for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (MBVB) in Rotterdam. Dutch design firm MVRDV won the collection building competition after proposing this giant mirrored public art…

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This Four-Legged Robot Will Chase You Down…

In 2013, DARPA released a video of a four-legged robot resembling a cheetah that had the ability to “chase and evade” to the tune of 30 mph! Many people were freaked out watching the robot…

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The Office That Actually Makes Employees Want to Come to Work

The office of Selgas Cano, an architecture firm based in Madrid, Spain, continues to be one of the most looked at buildings on the web recently and with good reason. The seven architects who work…

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