Volkswagen’s production facility in Wolfsburg, Germany includes two parking lot towers that store vehicles for customers who want to pick them up in person. The fully-automated vending machine-like process brings cars to buyers via a special elevator.
The California Roll House is a futuristic concept design for a prefabricated house that Christopher Daniel of Violent Volumes has created. The house was designed with a desert setting in mind with its exterior wrapped in an energy-efficient material that reflects heat from the sun. The house appears rolled to form a tube-like shape with glass on either end that is controlled electronically to change the transparency for privacy and light control. The modular nature of the design makes for easy assembly and disassembly on site. | via:
Windscreen wiper.
Braking in the rain.
Driving in the rain.
Daily chart: two thousand years in one chart. Measured in years lived, the present century, which is only ten-years old, is already “longer” than the whole of the 17th century. That is a lot of history for a single decade.
USB Wall Socket.
Pohutukawa tree. Okahu Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. 5pm in winter.
Untitled I, Providence RI 2006 by Victoria Crayhon.
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1969 Interview with Nabokov. Earliest suggestion of emoticons?
Aerial Views by Bernhard Lang.
A lovely soft Waikato (New Zealand) morning. Steamy cold. Early Winter.
Bioluminescence is cool. Love this Economist piece about how scientists are trying to harness bioluminescence for medical research and treatment, and for energy ideas such as bioluminescent trees replacing streetlights.
