Tokyo Sky City 1000

Fantastic documentary about Tokyo Sky City on Extreme Engineering.THIS is what the future looks like. Lookout, Jetsons!

Gotta watch to believe. Epic. A city that is 1.6 kilometers up in the sky and houses between 35,000-36,000 residents and 100,000 workers as well as offices, commercial facilities, schools, theatres, and other modern amenities.

The design of the Sky City was proposed in 1989 by Takenaka Corporation

I hope to God I will live to see it.

Google Latest News

While Googling for more information about the new Google Nexus One "Super Phone", I noticed something a little different about the Google Search Results....;

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Google now has a live update where every Tweet, News Article and etc, that has just been posted on the web is updated live on your Google Search results page :D

Poetry in Motion - Mojito Shoes by Julian Hakes

As with every other girl, I have a fantastic obsession and love for shoes. When I came across this article on Dezeen about Julian Hakes and his Mojito shoes, I felt like I was hit with a brick wall of "WOW!!" with his design.

It is named the Mojito shoe as it looks similar to a twisted lime skin.

Made of carbon fibre laminated with rubber on the side that touches the floor and leather on the side next to the skin, it is quite a sight to behold. Delicate, airy, light and elegant


We were wondering as to how the shoe looks if a model were to wear it, a quick hunt through Google images turned up blank. Only images of the shoes untouched. Disappointing. We are left with only these images of a tantalizingly beautiful piece of art waiting to be worn ;P



I prefer the impractical beauty of Hake's Mojito shoes to Zaha's Hadid's heels.....What do you think?

Helicopter Boys

What better way to promote a product's features than what's featured here in this video?

Dresses of the Future by Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan's Spring Summer 2007 collection of beautiful, elegant, feminine morphing dresses that even after 3 years, still inspires the mind.

With audio comment:


Straight to the point:

I found a very thoughtful article that inspires me this morning,
there is an article posted in The Design Observer Group -

The Value of Empathy.

Something that remind us that we have a bigger vision.
So keep our passion burning and create something that can help the world!


"It’s so terribly trendy to care about the poor, the environment, and every form of 'betterment' that I begin to assume we must be selling more design by fetishizing social relevance." — David Stairs, Arguing with Success

Google Wave

UPDATE:

I have officially received my invite for Google Wave (yay!)
Apparently, if you get invited by the Google Wave team, you'd be able to give out several invites, HOWEVER, if you are invited by a friend who was invited by the Google Wave Team, you get nada invites. =/

Here's a bit of a preview on how the interface looks like...



Thus far, I only have 3 other people in my contact list so there isn't much activity. I find the fact that we can watch videos directly from Wave as well as being able to easily show maps and have live polls to be so bloody cool.

Here's a WAY shortened vid on how Wave works



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A massively cool, open-sourced, browser based, crazily magical communications & collaborations tool by Google called Google Wave.

It'll be MUCH easier to understand once you've watched their really looong video taken during Google Wave's announcement/developer preview in I/O.

Google Wave is developed by Google Australia. More info on Google Blog here.