Sunday, 8 March 2015

Student’s Faucet Design Saves Water By Swirling It Into Beautiful Patterns

Student’s Faucet Design Saves Water By Swirling It Into Beautiful Patterns

Simin Qiu, a design student in London’s Royal College of Art, has come up with a luxurious-looking Swirl Faucet that will save water by turning it into a beautiful, elegant, swirling spiral.
Qiu’s design works by sending the water through a double turbine, which spirals as water moves through it, creating an elaborate and beautiful lattice of water streams. The turbine also limits the flow of water by 15%, meaning that you waste less when using it! 3 different nozzles let users choose which water-saving design they’d rather use.
The design, which also won an iF Design concept award in 2014, is operated with a touch button on top, which helps it retain its sleek and elegant look.
More info: Behance (h/t: mymodernmet, yankodesign)

Thursday, 10 April 2014

5 Brilliant Ideas to Steal for Your Small Apartment

5 Brilliant Ideas to Steal for Your Small Apartment

Do you live in a studio apartment where space is limited? If yes then view these ideas and get inspired:

1. Smart Floor Closet or Storage
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Image via: boiseriec , dwell 

2. A Wooden Platform with Hidden Kitchen
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Image via: boiseriec 

3. A Folding Instant Dining Table
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Image via: brit , ivy design 

4. A Bed over Storage Drawers with a Curtain Screen
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Image via: boiseriec 

5. A Living Cube
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Image via: imgur

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

UFO, cosmic ray or flasher? NASA rules on Curiosity curiosity

UFO, cosmic ray or flasher? NASA rules on Curiosity curiosity

Updated The internet has been all aflutter after a picture taken by NASA's Curiosity rover appeared to show a beam of light emanating from the Red Planet's horizon.
Mars light snapped by CuriosityMartian garden lights
"This is not a glare from the sun, nor is it an artifact of the photo process," claimed the image's discoverer, Scott Waring of UFO Sightings Daily.
"Look closely at the bottom of the light," Waring wrote. "It has a very flat surface giving us 100% indiction [sic] it is from the surface. Sure NASA could go and investigate it, but hey, they are not on Mars to discovery life, but there to stall its discovery."
Doug Ellison from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a man who would very much like to find evidence of life on Mars considering what it would do for JPL's budget, has a more likely solution. He tweeted that the image appears to be the result of Curiosity taking a cosmic ray hit, rather than a sign of little green men.
As streams of high energy particles sleet through space, they cause real problems for computer equipment. It's likely that the ray hit Curiosity and killed off a chunk of data in the camera, since the light only appeared from Curiosity's right-hand camera and not the left one, which took a second image of the area at the same time.
No doubt Mr. Waring will cry foul at such an assertion; his website also claims NASA's probes on Mars have found and ignored tiny statues, fossils, and a carved alien skull. Given that the site also claims to have pictures of a large alien ship docked near the ISS, a UFO fleet flying over Alabama, and an alien saving a man from a road accident, we'll take a more skeptical tone.
Kimberly outcropping on Mars
The winding road to Kimberly (click to enlarge)
Curiosity has been looking around a lot at the moment, as the rover has just finished an epic trek across the Martian surface. After moving out of what looks like a dried-up lake bed, the rover has been climbing towards an outcropping dubbed "Kimberly" by the JPL team, surmounting sand dunes and occasionally going backwards during its three-month trip.
The rover arrived on April 3 and is scoping out the best place to investigate Kimberly. The rock formation seems to expose several different layers of material, and Curiosity will fire up its drill and digest samples if the early data on its composition is correct.
It's very tempting to mock people like Mr. Waring, but his enthusiasm is also a very positive sign. NASA has been releasing streams of images from the Red Planet for public consumption and doesn't have the time or the resources to go over each one with a microscope, but thankfully there are many people online who are happy to do just that. ®

Update

NASA JPL has told The Register that is has examined the Curiosity images and has isolated the possible cause to a couple of options.
The first is that the light comes from sunlight reflecting off a rock on the Martian surface. A crater on the horizon could have reflected light from the Sun, which was relatively low in the sky when the image was taken.
"The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be caused by cosmic rays striking the camera's detector," said a spokesman. "Among the thousands of images received from Curiosity, ones with bright spots show up nearly every week."

Baby Monkey’s First Bath… It’s The Most Adorable Thing I’ve Ever Seen!

baby monkey nala gets a bath

Do you remember the first time you were given a bath? Most probably you don’t. But it is never too late to relive an experience that you might have found scary, amazing, or even soothing. This baby monkey, Nala is being given a bath for the first time. See how she reacts!
At first she is confused—what is this slimy wet thing that is slithering all over her? Kind of frightened, she holds on tightly to her “pet” toy dog. By and by, she gets used to the sensation of water washing down her body. She makes such sweet squeaking sounds as her owner lathers her!
Watch her as she sticks out her tongue when the bath is over—at last she can get out of this slimy wet stuff. Obviously relieved, she grabs on to the towel to dry herself! Just how cute is this!

Baby Nala doesn’t seem to understand what’s going on too well, but at least she has her little dog to hang on to. Like all babies getting their first bath, she isn’t sure if she should freak out or just wait calmly until it’s over!

World's Oldest Message in a Bottle Delivered 101 Years Later

World's Oldest Message in a Bottle Delivered 101 Years Later


A 101-year-old message, sealed in a beer bottle, was recovered by fisherman Konrad Fischer in the Baltic Sea last month.

This week, the sender's 62-year-old granddaughter got to see and hold her grandfather's message for the first time.

"This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact," Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg told the Australian Broadcasting Network. The museum eventually identified the sender's granddaughter, Angela Erdmann, of Berlin, and tracked her down this week.

"It was almost unbelievable," Erdmann told the German news agency DPA. "That was a pretty moving moment," she said of the first time she was able to hold the bottle. "Tears rolled down my cheek."

Researchers were able to determine that Richard Platz, Erdmann's mother's father, threw the bottle into the Baltic in 1913, when he was 20 years old. Though most of his message was illegible because of time and dampness, his postcard asked the finder to return it to his home address in Berlin.

Mission accomplished.

The previous Guinness World Record for a message in a bottle was one dated from 1914 that spent almost 98 years at sea.
These 19 Nightmarish Places Will Keep You Awake At Night… They Sent Chills Down My Spine.

These 19 Nightmarish Places Will Keep You Awake At Night… They Sent Chills Down My Spine.

As you go about your daily life, it’s easy to forget all of the weird and wonderful things that are tucked away around the world. A Redditor cobbled together 19 of the strangest places on earth, reminding us all of the creepy things that could be hidden in our very towns. Dark forests, abandoned cities, strange museums and other oddities are everywhere.
You just need to know how to find them.

Some of the strangest places on earth aren’t legitimately haunted, instead they are haunted by the memories of the horrors that were once committed there. The absence of life and positivity in a place that is just an archaic link to the past can be more chilling than any ghost story.

Source: Reddit

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