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Archive for May 2011

Grey sky Stork

May 30, 2011

Stork

Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. They belong to the family Ciconiidae. They are the only family in the biological order Ciconiiformes, which was once much larger and held a number of families.
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Proteus Folding Helmet

May 30, 2011

Folding Helmet

Essica Dunn, a designer from Australia has designed the world’s first folding helmet, to fit inside a rucksack, called the Proteus.
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Home in the Weeds

May 30, 2011

Home in the Weeds

Kevin Cyr designer from Brooklyn, is known for his camper bike. He currently presents ‘Home in the Weeds’, a solo exhibition at 941 geary in San Francisco on now until june 4th, 2011.
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Honda Chopper concept

May 30, 2011

Honda Chopper

Designer Peter Norris, has developed an amazing electric motorcycle concept, called the Honda Chopper, that has an extra long front suspension.
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GSI Tower in Cancun

May 30, 2011

GSI Tower

GSI Tower designed by Sanzpont Arquitectura, will be located in Cancun, Mexico. This remarkable 20-storey building will house a shopping mall, hotel and offices, and consists of 2 vertical bodies that meet at the top by 2 habitable bridges with an interior garden to form a large frame of the natural landscape.
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Google Wallet mobile payment service

May 30, 2011

Google Wallet

Google has now officially announced its NFC-based Google Wallet mobile payment service, complete with backing from a number of retail and financial partners.
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3D Map of Local Universe

May 30, 2011

3D Universe

Astronomers unveiled the most complete 3-D map of the local universe (out to a distance of 380 million light-years) ever created. Taking more than 10 years to complete, the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) also is notable for extending closer to the Galactic plane than previous surveys – a region that’s generally obscured by dust.

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Crescent Earth and Solar Panels

May 29, 2011

Crescent Earth

Intersecting the thin line of Earth’s atmosphere, International Space Station solar array wings are featured in this image photographed by an STS-134 crew member while space shuttle Endeavour remains docked with the station. Photo credit: NASA S134-E-007756 (20 May 2011)

James Webb Space Telescope technician

May 29, 2011

James Webb Space Telescope

This is the James Webb Space Telescope at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, and the face of project scientist Mark Clampin is reflected in the flight mirrors. The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST is due to launch in 2014.
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JR in the streets of Los Angeles

May 29, 2011

JR in the streets

This is the work of 27 year old French Street Artist known only as “JR”, in the streets of Los Angeles.
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