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Surrealist Architecture Designs by Victor Enrich

Architectural designer Victor Enrich created these intriguing works of art through a combination of photography and 3D digital rendering.

“A combination of photography and 3D architectural visualization is used. Once the object is chosen, it is shot from a point easy to recognize by users, not pretending to achieve the greatest picture ever, but instead, a picture that anybody could do. The shot is the basis to produce a replica of the building by using very detailed photogrammetric techniques that end with the creation of a three-dimensional model that fits almost perfectly into the picture.”

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The Passing Cloud Project

Passing Cloud by Tiago Barros is a recently submitted project for the international ideas competition: Life at the Speed of Rail, promoted by Van Alen Institute and the Department of Cultural affairs of New York City. Although it wasn’t one of the winning proposals, Passing Cloud reveals a strong conceptual approach that is worth noting: It is a new vision on travelling, based on the old Zeppelins.

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The Money Shredding Alarm Clock

Have a hard time waking up in the morning? Try this alarm clock, which begins shredding a dollar bill (or your choice of  banknote) from the time the alarm goes off.
Be careful, though – Mashable reminds us that willfully destroying American currency is a federal offense.
The clock is probably a design concept and it’s been doing the rounds in various tech blogs this past week with no mention of who made it.

Blackberry Empathy – Emotional Communication

Based on the idea of a mood ring, this futuristic cellphone integrates a keypad that changes color according to the emotional state, sensed from messages and phone calls, as the biometric ring transmits the body signals of wearer and sends data to the main device for interpretation. The goal  is to create empathy for one another and strengthen relationships.
Designer Daniel Yoon

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Futuristic Floating Dwellings

MORPHotel, a concept by Italian architect Gianluca Santosuosso, takes the luxury liner idea to a whole new level. The unique project is a floating system that slowly drifts around the world not only to move people around in comfort but to allow researchers to live and research unknown regions during the day and relax at night. The linear structure of the MORPHotel has been developed around the movement of the human spine, allowing it to survive mostly any weather experienced at sea.

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Concept: Copper Phone Uses Heat for Power

The Nokia E-Cu by  Patrick Hyland is a mobile phone charged by sources of heat therefore eradicating the need for a charger. The phone has a thermo-generator integrated inside, which converts heat energy into electric potential energy. It is surrounded by copper with engraved heat sinks in a dry earth pattern which represents the effect of heat on the natural environment. The phone can be charged by placing it on any source of heat e.g. a radiator, even inside a pocket.


‘Prism Cloud’ Project over Abu Dhabi desert

Architects Matthew Johnson and Jason Logan have designed a unique project as an entry to the Land Art Generator Competition near Abu Dhabi. Called the Prism Cloud, it’s a cable-net structure that would hover over the desert and generate energy at the same time that it splits or diffracts light.

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