Underwater Restaurant
The Hilton “Ithaa” is the new “grand dinner” destination in Maldives. I guess this full
glass underwater building is the perfect place to avoid hot summer days but I dont know
what will happen if the passing-by shark sees you eat his friends “on-the-stick ala Maldive”. Are they going to “surprise you” to the beach next morning?
F1 McLaren Technology Centre
The staggeringly sleek McLaren Technology Centre is an office and factory in Surrey (UK) for the Formula 1 racing-car company. An artificial lake helps to cool the building and its beating heart - a 475-foot-long wind tunnel used to test Formula One cars.
“This is a very large building, something like 100m by 200m, and it’s 11m high,” says David Nelson, partner at Foster & Partners. “That means it is low and flat. In plan it is circular, to incorporate the formal part of the lake which is set within a full circle.
“The main body of the building is broken into 18-metre wide ‘fingers’, with six-metre wide strips between them, which we call the ’streets’. These allow daylight into the interior of the building and give everyone working inside an awareness of the outside. They also form part of the ventilation system of the building.”
source and more info: mclaren.co.uk
Modified Computers - Ford Bronco Computer
So what happen if you mixed a computer geek with a Ford Bronco fans? You see it yourself, the Ford Bronco PC Case Mods! The PC case mods uses 1/5th scale and the standard desktop components.
The creator, Richard Sherman, recently win NewEgg (newegg.com) monthly mods content with this Bronco mods. For the monitor screen, he used a 12.1″ LCD screen, which he got from EBay for $100. For the inside, he used an old motherboard, CDROM, hard disk drive and power supply. The wheel, using RC truck tires, were bought from eBay for $35. And in the center of the Ford Bronco’s front signal turn, he added 2 USB plugins so he can plug his USB Drive easily.
For the music, he used an 1/8th inch mini stereo plug to 2 RCA plugs for hooking up to any house stereo and an FM modulator to send the audio to any radio within 1000 feet. For better perfomance, he later upgraded most of the inside part of the case. All of them, he said, were bought from NewEgg.
Richard said that he spent 14 months total to build this wonderful case mods. Now he has 2 Bronco PC Case Mods in his house, both connected to broadband internet access via router.
VIA - Funponsel
