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MOSCOW’S boomtown skyline will be dominated by the world’s biggest structure, a £2 billion “city inside a building” designed by Lord Foster.

Reaching almost 1,500ft into the sky and housing up to 30,000 residents, the Crystal Island will contain more floor space than any other structure on Earth.

Foster, whose recent British projects include the new Wembley stadium and “the Gherkin” office block in the City of London, said the tower is “the world’s most ambitious building” and symbolic of Russia’s renaissance as a world power.

However, some observers have likened the new Moscow skyscraper to a “Christmas tree” and dismissed it as “brash” and “vulgar”.

Foster plans world’s biggest building - Times Online

英国の建築家ノーマン・フォスターが設計したモスクワの新ランドマーク「Crystal Island」のお話。

氏の構想によれば、高さ1,500フィート(457m)、総工費20億ポンド(4,525.5億円)とのこと。

In the works for a decade and a half, this insect like walking machine constructed by a Finnish subsidiary of John Deere is supposed to be an eco-friendly, log-hauling monstrosity; its six massive legs spreads the weight of the machine evenly, the company claims, to minimize any impact on the forest soil. When the machine confronts obstacles, it simply steps over them, avoiding significant ground disturbance and minimizing damage to tree roots.

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環境にやさしい多脚歩行マシンのお話。
森林を破壊せずに丸太を運ぶことができます。

環境にやさしいかどうかはともかく、動きがかっこいいですね。

New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.

Army tests James Bond style tank that is ‘invisible’ | the Daily Mail

英国防省が公開した見えない戦車のお話。
カメラとプロジェクタを使用して戦車の周囲に背後の景色を投影し、見えない戦車にしてしまおうという技術。

これなんて光学迷彩？

I search to find the true about Cobra Tower from Kuwait. It is real or just another hoax?

A friend from Kuwait tell us it is a hoax. He live there and he don’t know about this project. Other people tell us it is just a concept generated by a CGI firm, so a kind a hoax…

News from gadget’s world » Blog Archive » Cobra Tower Kuwait: real or hoax?

クウェートに建設予定のコブラタワーのお話。
ただし現地の人は、そのプロジェクト自体知らない、眉唾物だと言っているとか。

2重に絡み合うビルが禍々しい秀逸なビルですね。

Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.

The “brain-machine interface” developed by Hitachi analyzes slight changes in the brain’s blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals.
Spluch: A couch potato’s dream…thought activated television

日立が開発した「脳マシンインタフェース」でリモコンを制御すれば、動かずにテレビのチャンネルを変えられるんじゃね？と言うお話。

最新の技術を使ってる割にはチープな説明文が良い感じですね。