Conventional multicopter drones are excellent at hovering and VTOL, but they can't cover long distances as efficiently as fixed-wing aircraft. A team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design is trying to get the best of both worlds with the Transformable HOvering Rotorcraft (THOR).
MUJI launched a trio of prefab homes, designed by Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison, and Konstantin Grcic, that are made from cork, aluminum, and wood.
William Malone: Part 1 in a journey in developing a game character.
IKEA Canada has created an amazing recipe book entitled Cook this Page, which lets you use its pages to cook directly on them! If this book illustrates recipes in the purest visual tradition of the brand with posters, it proposes you to detach a page, to place the required ingredients on the drawing
Michelin's Visionary Concept Tire has three principles: a wheel with no air, a distinctive, replenishing tread feature, and it's connected.
The racing yachts that take part in the America's Cup use a sail-wing to drive the vessel forwards using nothing more than the wind. The wing used by the Land Rover BAR race-yacht ‘Rita’, or R1, has a sail area of 103m2 and is 23.5m high, which is comparable to the main wings of an Airbus A320 aircraft.
This beautiful footbridge in Izmir, Turkey, offers much more than a passage from one side of Bostanlı Creek to the other, but also double as a public park, specifically designed for sunset viewing.
On the first day of summer, watch an igloo being built in 360. Adami Sakiagak and Tiisi Qisiiq, Inuit in northern Canada, build igloos to teach the next generation the disappearing craft.
Japanese paper crafter designs mechanical paper karakuri-style animals that peek & pop in surprising ways. Karakuri, are mechanical automata pieces that were first made in Japan during the 17th century. The craft mixes the tradition with kirigami, an art that combines paper cutting with origami or paper folding.
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