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Spooch: Spoon Chopsticks Combination
This is an idea called chopsticks plus by Aïssa Logerot. A combination of chopsticks, spoon and (in the second project) toothpicks. It's a good idea but in China the soup usually comes last, i.e. after the chopsticks have been used.
Toshiba Escargot
Gotta love the Toshiba Escargot vacuum cleaner. It's small (about 22cm), light (2.2Kg), quiet (65dB) and can be carried over the shoulder so there's do dragging the box on the floor after yourself. Have vacuum will travel.
Shanghai Shopping Malls Christmas Decorations
Christmas has come to Shanghai's shopping malls in the form of large outside displays. For example, outside of Le Meridien on Nanjing Road at People's Square is a Christmas tree built out of Heineken beer bottles.
Read on for more pics of Shanghai malls Christmas displays.
This is the mall at 759 Huaihai Lu (not sure of the name).
Times Square
Raffles
Mall 818
Westgate
Citic
Plaza 66
Either The HKGSHZ Or The SHZHKG Biennale
Two biennales, two cities, two web sites. It's either the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale or the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale. Go figure.
Wooden Car
This wooden car by Sada-Kenbi has a top speed of 90 kmph and is street legal in Japan. It's a single seater and is driven with handle bars like a motorbike. Get your motor running... Sada-Kenbi are a furniture maker who set out to prove that anything can be made of wood. They certainly did!
YouTube video (Japanese) embedded below:
Self Cleaning Solar Panels Possible
Researchers at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology at Tel Aviv University have published in Nature Nanotechnology a paper describing a new way to way to control the atoms and molecules of peptides so that they grow to resemble small forests of grass. These "peptide forests" repel dust and water - a perfect self-cleaning coating for windows or solar panels which, when dirty, become far less efficient. More coverage here.
This stuff is important, see Google's recent blog about how clean solar panels are more efficient.
Milan's International Festival Of Lights
Milan's international festival of lights includes this building project by Mario Nanni called 'la luce della musica' projected on to La Scalla.
For more building projections see: Sydney's Luminious Festival and Architectural Projections.
