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www.gizmag.com/project-utopia-floating-island

The concept of a floating island is not new, having first surfaced in Homer's Odyssey and making countless appearances in literature from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, C. S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy Perelandra, Hugh Lofting's The Voyages

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arclein

A bag weighing 230 kilograms (approximately 500 pounds) inflates into a shelter with 16 square meters (172 square feet) of floor space. Cost is estimated at £1,100 ($2,100), while an equivalent-size Portakabin (a type of portable building widely used

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Mega Machine

Remember those car beds you see advertised in a Sears catalogue for little kids, with the matching sheets and pillowcases? Jake's Chop Shop car beds are sort of like that but definitely for grown ups and you have to provide your own sheets.

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Terrence Aym

Micro-houses, some, little more than six feet wide, are constructed to occupy tiny plots of land not much bigger than an American SUV. Designed the right way these amazing dwellings seem much bigger than they are...

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7CoolList

Although designed and built for the prominent purpose of defense, today the castles seem like somewhat unrealistic constructions straight from the fairytale world. From solid strongholds to oriental fortresses and highly decorative palaces, the castl

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AP

Visitors to the Sears Tower's new glass balconies all seem to agree: The first step is the hardest.

The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's 103rd floor Skydeck. Their transparent walls, floor and ceiling leave visitors with the impression they're floating over the city.

 

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Popular Science

The first skyscraper to integrate large-scale wind turbines suspends three 1,200-megawatt units between its matching 787-foot office towers.

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Weburbanist

[wow!!!!] Abandoned buildings, properties and places take on remarkably different aesthetic character from one culture to the next - particularly in Asian nations where the cultural role of architecture or the whims of a dictator can vary greatly.

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news.yahoo.com/s/

The final height of Nakheel's proposed tower is likewise a secret, as is the price tag. The company would only say it will be more than a kilometer (3,281 feet) tall.

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News.BBC.co.uk

The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building's apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

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David McElroy

Have you noticed obviously superfluous expansion of retail and commercial buildings...even as the economy dwindles? Wonder why? David McElroy has a hypothesis that martial law is the reason.

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Spread Spectrum Scene

The first publically available patent on Spread Spectrum came from Hedy Lamar, the Hollywood movie actress, and George Antheil, and avant gard composer. The patent was granted in 1942, but the details were a closely held military secret for many yea

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Independent

An Englishman's home is no longer his castle, a study shows. There are no fewer than 266 powers under which state officials can enter an individual's home, according to the centre-right thinktank, the Centre for Policy Studies.

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Mother Jones

Welcome to paradise. But where are you? Is this a new science-fiction novel from Margaret Atwood, the sequel to Blade Runner, or Donald Trump tripping on acid?

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