By John | January 14, 2010
An interesting video by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showing a crash test where a 1959 Chevrolet is crashed into a 2009 Chevy. It shows the massive advance in occupant-safety over 50 years. I would not want to be the driver in the older car.
(via Boing Boing)
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By John | August 23, 2009
This cool bike is an entry for the 2009 James Dyson Award design competition.
There’s a neat video of the prototype in action on YouTube. The prototype can change it’s configuration while in motion!
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I don’t find Phillip Hermes’ idea for beating the traffic jams of the future particularly attractive:
…the Urban Mole is a capsule that travels through existing networks of underground pipes in order to transport packages as diverse as groceries, signed documents and any title that appears on Oprah’s Book Club. The Mole frees up our [...]
I read Molly Wright Steenson’s blog girlwonder on an irregular basis – she has lived in Italy, India and several other places – which is pretty unusual for an American, and she’s interested in modern architecture, various aspects of using the web, and design. Which are all things she blogs about.
She published a short [...]
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By John | December 31, 2008
Today I finally got around to correcting the programming for our outside lights, which I screwed up when we switched from summer time several weeks ago. The programming for the lights and for the outside blinds is performed by complicated sequences of button-pushes on the above controllers. The sequences are so complicated, and the handbooks [...]
By John | August 18, 2008
OK – the Burj Dubai is not completed yet. That’s scheduled for September 2009, at a cost building of three Millau Viaducts. But it has already set a number of records:
Tallest structure: over 636 m
Building with most floors: 164
Highest vertical concrete pumping: 601 m
It actually looks most impressive photographed from above. More photos here. There’s [...]
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