Behold: the Narke GT95 electric jet ski. With an impressive 70km/h top speed and 50km of range on a 90 minute fast charge, the four metre long water-hog can seat three people, skimming across the waves with a ride stabilising carbon fibre reinforced hull.
Yours for a trifling €39,000.
‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ – Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s most-recognised artwork – was recently subjected to two years of detailed research which, while failing to shed light on the identity of the subject, has revealed all manner of hidden detail including eyelashes (only visible under a microscope) and the fact that the grey background is actually a green curtain.
The surface condition of the painting (which has been subject to multiple restorations over the years) was studied by researchers Emilien Leonhardt and Vincent Sabatier, of Hirox Europe using a custom-mounted microscope.
The resulting 10 billion pixel panoramic scan – a gigantic stitch of 9,100 individual microscopic photographs, is available here in 2D and 3D for your perusal.
(Thanks Colum Cronin)
Behold: the “Spirit Of Passion’ – a heavily customised art-deco take on the BMW R18 by German designer Dirk Oehlerking.
Beneath the shiny black carapace – complete with hand-made full fairing and mudguard, handlebars, integrated indicators, bespoke headlight and modified roadster-style exhaust – all the functional R18 systems remain intact.
You may also like the Blechmann R18, and the R9T.
The pottery confections of artist Debra Broz – recycled, discarded figurines, broken apart then Cronenberged into bizarre conflations and adorable crimes against nature.
