June 26th, 2009
Frank Gehry, has designed mega buildings around the world - seems hard to believe that at the age of 80, the new AGO is this Toronto-born first building in Canada. One of Gehry’s early sources of career inspiration was the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto known as the “Father of Modernism” in Scandinavian countries. To me, […]
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June 25th, 2009
Extreme portable living crammed with tech…
The UNICAT MAN 6×6 has a 14′9″ chassis riding on 6 wheels all powered by a 480 hp diesel engine through a 16-speed manual transmission and weighs approximately 46,064 lbs. Everything is designed to take abuse, and keep passengers safe from the harshest of environments.
Included is everything you need for […]
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June 3rd, 2009
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June 1st, 2009
Amazing surfboards by Mike Sheldrake - He is building hollow, cardboard core surfboards with a “Cross-sectional Notched Rib Assembly”. Mike has a Web programming background and with a little research into the math used to describe curves, he started developing a web page to graphically adjust those board curves, and a rendering engine that takes […]
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