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Qatar has announced plans to construct a gigantic rotating crystal ball for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to host a sports museum and shopping center for tourists. The project concept was conceived by Danijel Koletić of Apriori Communications, who tasked architects Vedran Pedišić (SANGRAD) and Erick Velasco Farerra (AVP- arhitekti) to realize the idea.

In response Pedišić and Farerra have created the oversized crystal ball, designed to spin slowly in a spiral path around a central vertical axis.


By day the exterior takes on an iridescent effect, glittering with light of the sun and filtering daylight into the interior; by night the orb transforms into a glowing installation.

Big mama !!

Bryce Dallas Howard is another celebrity who packed on major weight while pregnant. It has been 4 months since she popped out her daughter. Just like Jessica Simpson, she has come under scrutiny for appearing much larger than she did in her big blockbusters The Help and Twilight.

Microsoft owned Sype has burst onto the tech scene over the past few years, and has quickly become a household name. We are huge fans of the service, and even bigger fans of their new office space in the greater San Francisco area of California, USA.


Tech companies are known for creating some of the most innovative work places, and Skype does not disappoint. The brand was looking to differentiate and distinguish their work environment from the other Palo Alto based companies in order to help recruit the best talent and promote a collaborative work force.


The company employs 250 individuals at this 54,000 square feet location, and open spaces is definitely the name of the game.

Paris 2012...

e-XIV is an acronym of 'electric - eXciting user Interface Vehicle'. The CUV builds on previous design concepts the XIV and KEV, with the e-XIV fitted with a range extender.
One of the key features on the e-XIV is its glass roof with an integrated 12 solar cell panel. The panel generates power for the car's aux systems, whilst providing the interior of the car with more natural light.
Amazingly SsangYong says that the car has a range of up to 600km thanks to the car's range extender capability.
Design-wise the e-XIV has been designed with contemporary features to appeal to a younger market. Inside is a four-bucket-seat configuration complemented by materials such as carbon fibre.

“THOUSAND SUNNY” SMARTPHONE STAND

Similar to CES, its counterpart in Las Vegas, it is almost a guarantee you will find something peculiar at Japan’s CEATEC trade show. Something like this, the anime/manga-themed N-02E ONE PIECE smartphone by NEC. Created for Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo, the N-02E ONE PIECE smartphone features a simulated ship deck exterior in faux wood, exclusive digital content, sounds, and backscreen of ONE PIECE characters.



If you’re able to purchase it in the coming month, you will be eligible to take home the “grand prize”, a smartphone stand in the shape of “Thousand Sunny”, the flagship of Monkey D. Luffy and his adventurous Straw Hat Pirates. More details to come this Thursday as NTT DoCoMo officially unveils its Fall/Winter 2012 product line-up.

Resident Evil 6,,,

To help hype yet another version of the hugely popular zombie game, Capcom opened a temporary human butcher shop in the Smithfield meat market East London. Yes it is real meat, though apparently it is not human meat. I don't know what kind of meat it is.




The limbs, torsos, and offal (including penis tips) were crafted by food artist Sharon Baker. Sales proceeds will go to the Limbless Association.

Tragedy struck a few nights ago after a day of racing at the Spa Francorchamps. A 63-year-old man from Saint-Ghislain was taking a 15-year-old for a drive in a Ferrari F430 on the E42 motorway in Belgium between Francorchamps and Sart when he lost control and hit a median at a high speed. THe car was split in two up to the cockpit, killing both the driver and the passenger.

To Death...

Steven Deuman, 26, of Suttons Bay, Michgan, has been found guilty of the August 2011 murder of his daughter, Evelynne Deuman, 15 weeks old. The young father was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault for suffocating his child during an oral rape. Deuman told police that he went out for a cigarette and when he returned to their mobile home, he found the baby lying on the floor unconscious, not breathing, bleeding from the nose, with a used condom in her mouth. DNA testing showed Deuman’s DNA on the inside of the prophylactic, and the child’s on the outside.
Deuman did not call 911, but called his wife and told her that the baby had choked on a condom. However, according to the prosecution, “This was no accident. She couldn’t roll over, much less crawl. … She certainly wasn’t capable of overcoming the obstacles on her bed, the pillows, to end up on the floor. Even if (she did), how is she going to suck that condom up?”
Not only did jurors have to endure the disturbing evidence of this case, but they also heard testimony from witnesses describing how Deuman allegedly sexually abused them as children. Jurors took less than 30 minutes to convict. Deuman faces life in prison.

Drive A BMW!! In the movie, Catwoman is a love-hate adversary of Batman. But in reality, Catwoman is just a delivery girl who drives a black BMW and carries a pizza hut-like delivery bag walking around Shanghai city. Her distinctive look has attracted a lot of people taking photos and uploaded to Sina Weibo. After all, it’s undoubtedly an advertising strategy!

It´s official! Porsche has released a series of photos of the limited edition 918 Spyder decorated with the colors of Martini Racing. Porsche´s association with the Martini Racing has lasted for nearly 40 years, enjoying great success with the championship-winning Martini Racing Team of the 70s. The supercar, powered by a V8 engine, has a combined power of 770 hp and is capable of 325 km/h maximum speed. The Spyder will be also able to reach 150 km/h in all-electric mode. The exclusive supercar is limited to 918 units.

Other than a few variants on tracks or some future designs that fly, motorcycles all have wheels and we know what wheels look like, some sort of disc rotating either forward of backward, right? Well, maybe not, because this group of students from Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San Jose State University looked at a few sci-fi vehicles and thought, “Hey, why not balls?” Why not, indeed? They’ve designed and begun building a senior project to demonstrate the feasibility of something most of us would not even consider.


The spherical wheels are constructed of carbon fiber and fiberglass with an industrial rubber coating and are friction driven by three electric motors mounted slightly off center on top of the ball. Because of the three motor arrangement, the balls can rotate or spin in any direction which makes for a rather unstable platform on which to base a motorcycle, but the students plan to address this issue with a computer control system using a gyro-accelerometer combination to determine the necessary movements needed to maintain balance and move in the proper direction.


As a senior project, this is extremely interesting and makes a fine showcase for the students’ abilities, but as a practical matter, it seems they will have to overcome a great many problems which, in the end, may lead to a motorcycle with no real advantage over conventional wheels.

Along with some magnificent dreams, Jacek Yerka finds inspiration for his masterful paintings from his childhood memories: the places, remembered feelings and smells of 1950's Poland. He studied fine art and graphic design before becoming a full time artist in 1980… and we’re glad he did.




His paintings will take you through incredible worlds of imagination, bending reality in captivating and clever ways fit to inspire a novel or film.