The iCup, a concept designed by Tomislav Zvonari features a matching spoon and USB link to your Mac that heats a pad on the saucer.
Prospective buyers, you know who you are.
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New York based artist Danny Rozin makes interactive art in the literal sense.
Some of his best known works are actuated ‘mirror sculptures’ which track the silhouettes of viewers via video sensors, translating them into real time kinetic reflections.
Above: Weave Mirror (2007), Angles Mirror 2013), Trash Mirror No. 3 (2011) and Fan Mirror (2013)
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Japanese artist and skater Haroshi creates laminate and mosaic sculptures by recycling old skateboard decks, using his knowledge of the worn and warped wood to build up layered blocks which he then carves and planes into shape.
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Visual effects outfit Scanline VFX’s breakdown of the shot-by-shot work done on the destruction of Tony Stark’s hilltop mansion in Iron Man 3 which is up for a Best Visual Effects award at the Oscars next month.
On a related note, here’s Nelson Carvajal’s supercut of previous Best Visual Effects Oscar winners.
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The melon-twistingly asymmetrical $60m Biomuseo at the entrance to the Panama canal – 4000 square meters of exhibition space and a botanical garden dedicated to the biodiversity of the region – designed by Frank Gehry and set to open shortly, ten years after construction began.
‘The Mile Low Club‘, a vacation operated by Oliver’s Travels is a concierge service for couples in the Caribbean offering moonlight walks on the beach, use of a private island and one or more nights inside a luxury submarine complete with onboard butler and chef.
You and your significant other can depart from the Caribbean island of your choice for an ardour-challenging £87,500 per person, per night.
Sea Orbiter is a 200 foot (60m) tall aquatic exploration platform designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie on which construction begins this Spring. Capable of accommodating a team of up to 22 researchers, who will live and work underwater 24 hours a day, half the eight-story structure (which will cost €35 million to construct) is submerged with a variety of labs and living quarters for crew.
The underside features dive pits, pressurized living quarters and underwater garages. Regular divers will descend to 50 meters below the surface, while “saturation divers” living in pressurised chambers will be able to reach 100 meters. Below this depth, Sea Orbiter will deploy exploration vehicles down to 1,000 meters and an advanced diving drone that can descend to 6,000 meters.
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Behold: the Renault KWID – an off-road concept vehicle with its own drone quadcopter – revealed this week at the Delhi AutoExpo.
The quadcopter, deployed from a motorised hood at the rear of the roof and controlled by a tablet inside the vehicle, is used for scouting traffic, taking aerial photographs and detecting obstacles ahead.
Created by digital artist Eowyn ‘theantilove’ Smith: a map of the geographical locations of 44 Disney and 13 Pixar films from Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Frozen (2013).
Full image and key here.
Unmappable films like Wall-E and Monsters Inc appear in an inset. Elsewhere, following furious pedantry on Reddit and DeviantArt, Smith clarifies:
1. Movie was placed based on the location IMPLIED IN THE DISNEY/PIXAR VERSION
2. If the movie was too vague to determine a location, the original story/myth was consulted.