The Excalibur, situated within the Bjoeks Climb Center in Groningen, The Netherlands, is the world’s tallest climbing wall.
The wall is 121 feet and faces the rugged landscape of nature. A special feature of the wall is a sleek curve 36 feet from the base that creates an artificial overhang akin to climbing a real peak.
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Maker Alessandro Grossi sent us this great DIY build for a 3D scanner built using a laser, a DSLR, and an Arduino controller. Allesandro is a Mechanical Engineer, holding a Ph.D. in product design. His day job involves helping designers and manufacturing firms develop and optimize products by means of FEM analisys and Computational fluid dynamics. This is just what he does for fun.
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Researchers in Australia are making progress in their quest to construct a scalable quantum computer, having developed a method for extracting information from an electron racing around a phosphorus atom in silicon, the MIT Technology Review reported Wednesday. The achievement suggests that commercial use — and, therefore, wider implementation of a probabilistic computing model much faster than current systems — could be just a wee bit closer.
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Australian architecture firm BVN Donovan Hill made an appearance at Melbourne’s recent Emergency Shelter Exhibition in order to demonstrate its new emergency shelter concept. Developed with the aim of providing comfortable surroundings for its occupants, the temporary structure resembles a 3D puzzle and is said to assemble much like an Ikea cupboard.
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A single surface model made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, United Kingdom. It consists of three Klein bottles set inside each other to produce, when cut, three pairs of single-twist Mobius strips. A Klein bottle has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot be properly constructed in three dimensions.
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… Read More → "Let your walls light up the room with LED wallpaper"Made by Mestyle and shown off at this year’s New York Design Week, these high-tech wallpapers have low-tech origins; they’re all handmade. The rolls come in 22 unique designs, each with its own scientific or historic inspiration.
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A 73-year-old Japanese man, Tatsuo Horiuchi, has ditched the conventional use of Excel – spreadsheets – to deliver some absolutely stunning art using Microsoft’s productivity tool. Why use Excel to create art like this? Horiuchi said that “other specialized graphic software is expensive, and Excel came pre-installed in PCs”, while he also mentioned he found the software easy to use … Read More → "73-year old Japanese man creates stunning art in Excel"
… Read More → "World’s largest Lego sculpture: 5.3 million-brick X-Wing Starfighter"Brad Wieners of Bloomberg BusinessWeek went to see the world’s largest Lego sculpture: a 5.3 million-brick, “life-size” X-Wing Starfighter.
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Starting with a large nine-foot long drain pipe that was capped at both ends using copious amounts of marine-grade waterproof glue, Justin added ballast tanks to allow the sub to dive and rise, drive motors, a communications system including audio and video, and ultra-bright strobe lights that allow him to explore the depths of his local lake.
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