Published by master at November 20th, 2009
If you’ve never seen a woman dress of bright lights, then maybe this is the first. Two designers from London have created a dress with a mix of full-color LED 24.000. The dress is called ‘Galaxy Dress’, who later claimed to be the largest display of clothing in the world and will become the center of attention in the fashion show at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
“We use the smallest LED full color, flat as paper, and measuring just 2×2mm. Circuit is made very thin, flexible and with a hand-made silk lining is stretchy so that the LED manufacturers can make it feel like for making clothes with extra light. The factory is working on this dress CuteCircuit. “Says Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, the dress designer.
Behind the LED itself, the Galaxy dress made for the grace of women, Genz added. To emit light LED, Dress Galaxy dress has 4 layers of silk chiffon. Super-thin electronic material attached to the dress to form the body as a factory-made clothes.
Dress Galaxy dress is also equipped with iPod battery is much smaller, hidden and invisible LED, Rosella added. With these batteries, the Galaxy dress Dress can burn from 30 minutes to 1 hour. There are areas without LED 4000 is decorated with Swarovski crystals, ranging from crystal clear to light pink. In fact, this dress looks good when the lights turned off, according to Rosella. So far, the Galaxy dress Dress has not been worn by real women, but still in the museum.
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Published by master at November 10th, 2009
Ever see a special hotel for the homeless?
A capsule-shaped hotel located in downtown Tokyo, and inhabited by hundreds of unemployed, homeless or also for people who do not know will go anywhere. When Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 open since two decades ago, Japan had just recovered from a tough economic pressure. For that, the hotel with a cubic size of a thin plastic is offered as a place to stay for those looking for work or who missed the last train for home.
Now Hotel Shinjuku 510 with room size ‘capsule’ is no more than 6.5 feet long and 5 feet wide, with a high roof that was not enough to stand up, has become an alternative option for some people who do not know will go anywhere, the result of economic recession, since The second World War. Many people get laid off, so it can not rent a house and eventually became homeless.
Room rents Shinjuku 510 capsule hotel was not cheap for the size of a small room, which is 59.000 yen per month or about $ 560 per room. However, with a bath and sauna are free use, clean linen, and without any cost, the price per room at least cheaper than renting an apartment in Tokto. Capsule room has no door, only the glass that can be pulled down. In fact, each capsule has only one lamp, a small TV with earphones, a thin blanket and pillow hard from rice husk. The walls are made of plastic, so when you cough or laugh out loud will be heard by neighbors.
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Published by master at November 10th, 2009
A Belgian architecture firm has designed a unique place, the so-called ‘blob VB3′. VB3 Blob is a mobile unit for the office ‘xfactoragencies’ the house ‘reserve’.
Egg-shaped building has several rooms, like bathrooms, kitchens, beds, lighting facilities, and some storage cabinets. On the side can be opened automatically as a kind of window. The building is easily removed, can be used as an office, living room, or placed in the middle of the park.
The main materials of the house egg VB3 blob is polyester. VB3 Blob can also be opened at the front of the door out. For one egg rumha this VB3 blob of land required for 20m2.
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