Tag: concrete

Self-Fixing Concrete Cracks That Repair Themselves With Sunlight

Self-Fixing Concrete Cracks That Repair Themselves With Sunlight

Concrete cracks are a big deal. Little concrete cracks lead to big concrete cracks. Big concrete cracks lead to lots of money being spent for repairs and rebuilding things like bridges and overpasses. That's not to mention you can break your mother's back if you step on a sidewalk crack (or somethin ...
Stair Porn: A Collection Of Creative & Inspiring Staircases

Stair Porn: A Collection Of Creative & Inspiring Staircases

There are so many inspiring things in the world around us that I think we sometimes take for granted, or at least I do. Of course there are a million miracles in nature right outside the backdoor, but there are also very stunning designs inside that are easy to overlook when we get busy in our daily ...
Sci-Fi Meets Real Life: See Through Concrete Walls

Sci-Fi Meets Real Life: See Through Concrete Walls

Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory have just figured out how to see through concrete walls up to 8 inches thick and from 60 feet away. When I heard this, I got giddy because I thought it was going to mean we could be like Superman and actually look through concrete walls and see exactly what is ...
Real Concrete Lego Blocks Make Your Builds Realistic

Real Concrete Lego Blocks Make Your Builds Realistic

Everyone who has spent any considerable time playing with Lego when they were young (or even as a grown up) knows that the creativity and the urge to continue building is severe. It all depends really on how many blocks you have at your disposal. If you have bucket loads, you can sure spend some tim ...
World’s Most Secure House: A Zombie Bunker

World’s Most Secure House: A Zombie Bunker

Every once in a while I stumble over some crazy article in the newspaper that reports about someone rich building a doomsday shelter or bunker to keep safe from whatever might strike earth in the near future. Those articles have always been quite mesmerizing to me because it sounds like a huge endea ...
11 Buildings That Will Keep You Safe From A Zombie Attack

11 Buildings That Will Keep You Safe From A Zombie Attack

It seems like everyone is talking about them. We even watch every single movie about them. The game industry is taking them on like they were the next big thing, and in some ways they are. After all, they are immortal. Well, maybe not immortal, but already dead. I am of course talking about zombies. ...
14 Spaceship Homes: Get Ready To Ditch Earth By 2012!

14 Spaceship Homes: Get Ready To Ditch Earth By 2012!

If you're one of the millions of people that hauled your butt to the movie theater to watch the epic movie "2012" only to come out of it fully convinced that Earth is going kablam exactly when the Mayan calendar says it will, this might be something for you to consider. There are people out there t ...
Coffee Lovers: Here’s Your Indestructible Coffee Machine!

Coffee Lovers: Here’s Your Indestructible Coffee Machine!

The day finally came when we saw indestructible machines inhabit the earth to forever keep us company. Never again do we need to sign those warranty papers when we purchase a new device. Most of the time, it just won't break, simple as that. I wonder what this will do to commercialism as a whole. ...
Your USB Drive Is Worth Its Weight In…Concrete!

Your USB Drive Is Worth Its Weight In…Concrete!

There are all sorts of different designs when it comes to USB sticks and drives. The creativity implemented into these incredibly useful little things is just mind numbing at times. There is really no limit to what can be done. Well, almost anyway. As soon as we run out of things to mimic, I gue ...
This Is My Dream House – Design Inspiration

This Is My Dream House – Design Inspiration

Since I'm looking for a new place to live right now, it seems like I've got architecture on my mind. I have been looking at a lot of different websites trying to decide which is the best path to take, and along the way, I found a house that I would love to live in. The only problem is, it's in a l ...
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