Listen To Ratatat’s New Album LP4
Ratatat’s New Album, LP4 is streaming right now in entirety on NPR. With spaced out broken beats, eclectic samples and instrumentation, it’s a solid listen while you work. Listen
Unplug Design’s Dream Ball
Unplug Design created the easy to build dream ball with one thing in mind - to improve the lives of impoverished children. The different sized balls can be mad out of boxes - allowing sports, such as soccer, to distract from hardships of life.
Shoeboxes create millions of tons of waste. Puma developed the smartest shoebox ever and cut their cardboard consumption by 65%!
Powered by the Sun
Solar Impulse, a solar airplane designed to fly around the world using only solar power made its first flight on April 7th, 2010 over the Swiss countryside. This plane is the size of an Airbus A340 but light as a sedan!
via Wired
Bikestation DC
Bikestation DC is one of many Bikestations popping up across the U.S. DC’s was created by Mobis Transportation. This is the first east cost location for Mobis and offers bike parking, rental, repair, sales, and a member’s area with changing/locker rooms in a simple modern structure adjacent to Union Station.
Energizing the Relation Between Science and Cooking
Harvard’s Schools of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be adding a new course this fall – but not taught by an engineer! Chef Ferran Adria will be teaching Science of the Physical Universe 27, “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter”. Adria is known as the godfather of deconstructivist cuisine, and his 3 star restaurant in Roses, Spain, El Bulli, is famed as one of the best in the world. Adria’s “unexpected contrasts of flavor, temperature and texture” have made major contributions to the definition of 21st century haute cuisine. Hopefully this course will teach young engineers that science has culinary applications beyond extending shelf life!
Converse Skateboarding (Spring 2010)
I’ve always felt like the original converse kicks “look” two narrow. These con-skate CTS-mids have a bit more substance to them, a mid-level cut, and some pretty rad textures.
Purchase them online at Converse Skateboarding.
(via Sneaker News)
Ping Pong Dumplings!
Rolling with their dumpling trend, London’s Ping Pong Dimsum opened a US outlet in DC’s Penn Quarter. Their food stands up to their slogan: little steamed parcels of deliciousness. The food and drinks are served up in a sleek modern restaurant/lounge. Don’t miss the Char Sui Bun - honey BBQ pork in a fluffy flaky bun.
MIT Media Arts and Sciences Building
The amazing features of this lab go far beyond the structure itself, but the Maki and Associates designed building is certainly one of a kind.
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