You can huff and you can puff, but you ain’t going to blow this house down. Balancing on a rock in the middle of the Drina River in Serbia, this house has been pounded by floods and high winds – surviving everything nature could throw at it for 45 years. The idea for it came
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LEGO used to recreate MC Escher’s Clever Optical Illusions
From the mind of mathematician Andrew Lips…Some amazing 3D LEGO replicas inspired by MC Escher’s clever optical illusions. Andrew Lipson, from Cambridge and Daniel Shiu carefully assembled thousands of Lego bricks over many weeks to create these incredible pieces inspired by his hero Escher. The Dutch artist is best known for his mathematical inspired woodcuts,
PayPal Billionaire Planning to Build New Countries at Sea
Just imagine having so much money that you could essentially build your own country in the middle of the ocean. PayPal founder Peter Thiel is funding a project that intends to create new societies governed in a radically different manner from conventional states. The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1.25million to the Seasteading Institute, an
World Builder – Amazing video, you may even shed a tear
I just found myself a new architect, this gem of a video is a couple years old, but way ahead of its time…I am going to go out on a limb and call this one of the best vids on the Tube. It’s a bizarre story of a man using holographic tools to build a
A Swarm of Quadrotors unite to build a Structure
Watch how these quadrotors at UPenn’s GRASP laboratory build a structure. It’s interesting to speculate how this technology might grow out of the lab into the real world… To build actual buildings, you might need slightly much bigger quadrotors or thousands of small quadrotors cooperating in big pieces. They’re like angry robotic wasps! There’s going
Build your own Road with Tiger Stone
As they say, it’s just as easy as laying laminate flooring, some assembly required. Tiger-stone allows you to build 400 yards of road a day using cobblestone. This doesn’t automatically sort, cut and arrange the bricks in patterns. It just lays them. Someone needs to put the right bricks in the right places at the
The Race is on – Who’s going to build the Fastest Helicopter | Video
Two experimental aircrafts are in what seems to be a race to build the fastest helicopter, the U.S. based Sikorsky Aircraft (X2) and Germany’s Eurocopter (X3). The technology used by both companies is predicted to help commercial choppers reach top speeds by at least 60 percent within five years. Some high-speed prototypes are capable of
