Psychedelic Photographs of Flowers

Los Angeles-based photographer Maggie West likes to experiment with lightnings in order to create surreal and captivating atmospheres.

Electric Bike Designed with a Portable Battery

Noordung, a company based out of Slovenia, specializes in creating unique, handmade, urban electric bikes. Their first series, Noordung Angel Edition, will only consist of 15 of the bikes making them an exclusive bicycle made for the true cycling enthusiasts.

The Superb Bird-of-Paradise’s Courtship Dance

Photo credit: www.birdsofparadiseproject.org 

The aptly named “superb bird-of-paradise” is fascinating to behold, especially when it’s performing its courtship dance. In fact, once the male bird opens its plumage, it doesn’t look like a bird at all.

Winchester Mystery House: The House That Sarah Couldn’t Stop Building

Standing in the middle of suburban San Jose, California, is a sprawling Victorian mansion surrounded by beautifully kept gardens, which from the outside appears nothing out of the ordinary. But the inside is another story.

Gran Mediterraneo Tower, Tel Aviv

Designed by belgian architect David Tajchman, the ‘gran mediterraneo’ is a conceptual highrise building conceived for the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The scheme brings together a range of innovative functions, including an automated car-park and induction charging stations for electric driverless vehicles. The multistorey tower boasts a topological geometry that contrasts the contemporary orthodox approach of stacked horizontal slabs wrapped with mirrored glass.

Trayser Electric Bicycle

Trayser peculiar electrically assisted pedal bicycle, offers a radical modular frame.

Trayser electric bicycle has 97 kilometer range, with three hour charge, and the motor can power the bike up to 24 km/h.

BioLogic, A Shape-Changing Fabric That Vents When You Sweat

Teams from MIT Media Lab and the Royal College of Art have used bacteria to design a “bio-skin” fabric that peels back in reaction to sweat and humidity

Clothes created from the BioLogic fabric have vents that open in response to sweat

Innovator: Hiroshi Ishii
Age: 60
Title: Professor and associate director of MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research group

The First Electric Keyboard

The General Electric Walking Truck from 1969