The World’s Fastest Elevator Will Take You to the 95th Floor in 43 Seconds

We hope you don’t get motion sickness. Hitachi is manufacturing the world’s fastest elevator for the Guangzhou CTF Finance Center in China, traveling between the first and 95th floor of the towering 440 meter structure,…

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Abu Dhabi’s Futuristic Park Will Be Disguised as a Desert

The Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation has announced its plan to build a park in Abu Dhabi called the Al Fayah Park, which will essentially be a futuristic covered garden for the public that…

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Want To Smash Stuff? This Business is Designed Around Recreational Destruction!

Das Breakroom opened in Boise, Idaho, on April 15, 2014, and is perhaps the coolest and oddest business idea I have seen this year. The company literally revolves around the idea of “recreational destruction” where…

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For Sale: Eco-Friendly Home in a Solar-Powered Floating Village

Talk about a vacation on a houseboat and people start thinking of you sipping wine on the deck, being rocked to sleep by the gentle waves,  fishing, swimming, stargazing and simply spending quality time with…

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Land Rover Works Its Magic to Make Your Hood Disappear

Land Rover is tinkering with some new technology that will allow users to see the road in front of them that is usually obscured by the hood. How? By making the hood invisible. Kind of.…

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The Left Turn Strategy That’s Saved UPS 10 Million Gallons of Gas

If you’ve ever watched a UPS delivery truck in action, you’ve probably noticed a pattern. In a green effort, both money and the environment, those big brown trucks don’t turn left. It’s not that drivers…

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German Man Creates Electromagnetic Spiderman Webshooter to Go with His Iron Man and X-Men Devices

Patrick Priebe, German craftsman and big fan of comic book superheroes, has created an electromagnetic Spider-Man webshooter very similar to that of the real Spider-Man. Unfortunately, unlike the real thing, Priebe’s device has to be…

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PayPal’s ‘Wearable Wallet’ Lets You Buy Stuff from Your Smartwatch

Paypal has teamed up with the Starbucks located on its corporate campus in order to test a new technology utilizing beacons and wearable devices. The ‘wearable wallet’ integrates with smartwatches and upon entering Starbucks, the…

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Researchers Develop Artificial Blood Cells for Human Transfusions

Researchers in the UK and Ireland have produced artificial red blood cells that are fit for transfusion. Scientists, led by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), developed the fake blood using stem cells and…

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Artist Upcycles Trash into Tiny Houses for the Homeless

Greg Kloehn is an artist based out of Oakland, California, who recently discovered that what some people consider trash truly can be another person’s treasure. After making a small house out of scraps and garbage…

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