Extraordinary Items

4 Extraordinary Hanging Hotels Pool

feroz557@gmail.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:42:27 PST

Extraordinary pools Hotel started becoming increasingly common, designers have had to come up with something new to up the ante. Recently, cantilevered pool tanks with see-through sides and flooring have started to gain international attention.

InterContinental Festival City Hotel, Dubai

At the InterContinental Festival City Hotel in Dubai, a transparent plexiglass section extends beyond the edge of the hotel building, overlooking the Dubai Skyline. The pool has a curved transparent bottom and people on the street are able to lookup and see swimmers overhead. Make sure your are wearing your finest swimwear.

Hilton Hotel, Auckland

The pool at Hilton Hotel in Auckland has a similar design, except it has a solid bottom. The swimming pool is suspended between the two buildings that make up this dramatic hotel. There is also a viewing gallery underneath the pool so hotel guests can check out the action from below.

Modern Penthouse Renovated Indoor Pool Overlooking The Loire River

Luxury hotel combine traditional colonial style - boutiqe hotel Club in Singapore

Joule Hotel, Dallas

The hanging pool on the Joule Hotel in Dallas, Texas, extends eight feet out and over the side of the building at the tenth-floor. The pool has a plexiglass wall at the end overlooking the street, so not only can swimmers look down at the city below but pedestrians can look up at the swimmers.

Malaysia’s Unique Oil Rig Hotel | Seaventures Dive Resort at Pacific Ocean

Maison Moschino: Stylish Daydream Hotel design in Italy

Adelphi hotel, Melbourne

The rooftop pool at Adelphi hotel in Melbourne, Australia, has a glass bottom and cantilevers over Flinders Lane from 9 storeys up. The 25 metre, heated salt water pool offers a unique view of the streetscape below through the clear Perspex pool floor.

Modern All Suite Hotel & Spa In Rimini, Italy (The iSuite )

Know anymore cantilevered hotel pools? Tell us in the comments.

Modern Penthouse Renovated Indoor Pool Overlooking The Loire River

feroz557@gmail.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:23:48 PST

Located on France's l'île de Nantes on the Loire river, is this wildly modern penthouse renovated by architects Avignon et Clouet.

With transparent interior walls, modules for sleeping, a retractable wall mounted staircase, an indoor pool, the 185 square meter penthouse has views from every angle.

The indoor pool:

Luxurious Resort in Las Piedras is a casual all-day eatery and the pool bar mixes up the good kind of trouble.

Modern All Suite Hotel & Spa In Rimini, Italy (The iSuite ) : An exclusive sea-view sauna and natural materials, shaped by waters and wind. Soak in their pool to watch the stars and the never ending sky, even during winter time.

Kitchen and Dining area:

Sleeping modules:

Living areas:

The stairwell (above and below) is wall-mounted and retractable

An overhead look at France's l'île de Nantes:

Exterior view of the building in which the penthouse is located:

Floor plans:

photos courtesy of Avignon et Clouet,Stephane Chalmeau, Philippe Ruault and Thierry Malty.

Fashion Design Quotes, Todays Fashion Sayings and Quotes

feroz557@gmail.com — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:37:51 PST

Today's Extraordinary fashion items is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
Donna Karan

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton

I've used a lot of jersey, but I've also done a lot of complex pattern weaves in these fabrics in solid colors, and there are lots of little dresses for cocktail and evening. I've done a series of very important evening dresses as well, just to show that these two ideas can also work well together. Today's Womans fashion items can wear an important evening dress or a simple pant and top. It's all in the personality of the woman.
Giorgio Armani

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. Anatole France

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Edwin Hubbel

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.
Giorgio Armani

Clothes don't make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
Herbert Harold Vreeland

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

I don't design clothes. I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, and simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
George Bernard Shaw

I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
Hubert de Givenchy

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
Helena Rubinstein

Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.
John Fairchild

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
Katharine Hepburn

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
Karl Lagerfeld

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman.
Mary Kay Ashe

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Yves Saint Laurent

A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.
Oleg Cassini

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
Coco Chanel

When in doubt, wear red
Bill Blass

When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
Albert Einstein

"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."
Anthony Burgess

Modern Wooden Christmas Trees Designer Making The Trees Stylish Alternative

feroz557@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:00:40 PST

Richard Babcock, the father of Pat Babcock Sorensen, was an architect who built furniture in his spare time.

Tired of finding, hauling, displaying, watering and disposing of the bulky, needle-dropping, space-guzzling evergreen every Christmas, he came up with a simple and non-messy alternative to real Christmas trees.

He designed two wooden trees - a life-size version that stands at 6 feet and suspends from the ceiling with a thin wire and a 3 foot tabletop version which uses a base stand for support. Both were designed to be easy to set up, take down and store compactly, making the trees are a smart and stylish alternative.

above: Dick Babcock with his suspended 6ft Cherry tree in 1994

Prompted by recognition (In 2002, the suspended tree placed as a finalist in the national Hammacher Schlemmer Search for Invention® contest), and the Babcock family's long-standing affection for the trees, Pat speculated that others would value them as well. So, they patented the design and formed a business and the PossibiliTree was born.

above: Pat Babcock Sorenson, right, and and her business partner Nadja Reubenova, left. (image by Tom Wallace for the Star Tribune )

They produce a limited number of 6ft suspended trees and 3ft table top models in Walnut wood, Cherry wood or Birch wood (the tabletop version in Walnut is already sold out for 2011). The trees are manufactured in the US and use reclaimed or “deadfall” wood whenever possible.

Some examples of the trees from previous customers:

above two images by Tom Wallace for the Star Tribune

Their appearance harkens back to mid-century modern design and they look as great bare as they do adorned so you can keep them up all year round.

6 foot suspended tree

A favorite of architects and designers, this tree is visually stunning and ethereal. An award-winning design, the 6ft suspended possibiliTree, with 10 rows of branches, shows off ornaments beautifully. Floating 18 inches above the floor, there is plenty of room underneath to place gifts. Comes pre-strung and rolled in a bundle. Simply unroll it, hang it, fan out the branches, and decorate. (Ceiling hook not included.)

Note: as of 12/04/11, there are 93 6ft suspended possibiliTrees available

Height: 72" plus length of wire
Weight: 13 lbs
Diameter at Widest: 53"
Compostion: Wood, .07 GA/125 lb Test Wire
Comes With: Storage Box, Instructions
Note: Requires 9' or higher ceiling

3 Foot tabletop tree

Clean-lined, unfussy, practical. The 3ft Tabletop—only 28 inches at its widest—is made for smaller living spaces, but would look great as a second Christmas tree in the foyer or family room of a larger home. You can decorate this tree during the holidays and enjoy it for its artful simplicity, unadorned, throughout the year.

Note: The Walnut tabletop tree is sold out, but the Cherry wood and Birch versions are still available

Height: 35"
Weight: 3.2 lbs.
Diameter at Widest: 28"
Compostion: Wood, Metal Rod
Comes With: Cotton Bundle Cloth, Storage Tube, Instructions

Buy your PossibiliTrees here

17th Century Sunken Bridge of Fort de Roovere

feroz557@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:38:37 PST

During the 17th century, a series of moats and fortresses were built over the West Brabant Water Line region of the Netherlands to provide protection from invasion by France and Spain. Fort de Roovere was surrounded by a shallow, muddy moat that was too deep to march across and too shallow for boats.

Recently the fort was opened for tourist but instead of building an overbridged over the moat which would have definitely taken away the fort’s dramatic view, a sunken bridge was Unique designed.

From afar, the bridge is invisible to the eye. The flow of the moat appears continuous, as the water level remains at the same level. As visitors approach the fort, the bridge appears as a break in the water.
The project was recently awarded with the prestigious BNA (Union of Dutch Architects) Building of the Year 2011, Southern Region.

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Extraordinary Way To Use Recycle Clothes Hangers

feroz557@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:37:35 PST

An extraordinary creative ways to use recycle clothes hangers, all the ideas and designs listed below needn't be using old clothes hangers though these definitely give a head start.

"48" Lighting Design: 101 Design Studio has come with a clever way to recycle hangers into cool looking lights. Lamps are available in two versions the "48 Hanger" and "48 Stand".

Coat Hanger Fruit Bowl: It's made of conventional crescent coat hangers.

Hanger Lights: Creative recycle of wire hangers at 'Anthropologie'; they have turned hangers into lights.

Make a Multifunctional Container: A cool and simple DIY project for turning a wire hanger into a little container.

Hanger Chair: Creation of Vanessa Marie Robinson a Brooklyn-based industrial designer; this chair uses 61 old coat hangers welded onto a steel frame.

Hangeliers - Clothes Hanger Chandeliers: Hangeliers by Organelledesign makes wonderful chandeliers from off-the-shelf plastic and wood hangers.

Coat Check Chair: Creation of Boston-based designer Joey Zeledón.

Garden Staples, Wire Topiary and Plant Markers: recycle hangers to make garden plant markers, wire topiary and garden staples.

Clojo - Toilet Paper Hanger: Studio Stallinga invented this cool minimalistic recycle of clothes hangers, its called Clojo - toilet rollhanger.

Neck Collar: Creation of product designer Frederike Top.

Coat Hanger Gorilla: Sculptor D Mach constructed this sculpture entirely of coat hangers.

Extraordinary Calendar Motivated Advertisement Ideas

feroz557@gmail.com — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:00:46 PDT

A set of Extraordinary Clever Ideas and creative calendar motivated advertisement by a variety of companies from all over the world.

One Daily Drop Living Calendar Advertisement: Here we have a living calendar; 'by just moving the hand for 3 seconds, we give water to a plant'.

Wüsthof Knives Calendar Advertisement: To dramatize how precisely Wüsthof knives can cut, a tear-off onion calendar was created in which an onion was cut into 365 slices.

Failsafe Calendar Advertisement: Its a wall interactive project with a 5-kopeck coin attached to a magnetic tape. It has 365 scratch panels; behind each of the 365 scratch panels one can find jokes, recommendations, funny pictures, riddles and quizzes, internet links as well as thoughts about life and friendship.

McDonald's Calendar Advertisement: To show the appreciation for franchisees and business partners, this napkin dispenser that also acts as a tear-off calendar was created.

Valberg Safe Calendar Advertisement: The calendar is made similar to the real safe, where each page contains a description of one of the safe's characteristic. The calendar has a metal looking handle; anyone can select the necessary week by simply turning it. Each page has a gap for the said handle, so one won't be able to turn the page for the next month until the handle is positioned correctly.

Siam Tamiya Calendar Advertisement: Unlike a wall calendar that's thrown away after a year, this calendar can be turned into 12 modeling kits that can be assembled and displayed for others to see.

AOK Insurance Calendar Advertisement: To promote AOK Health Insurance Advertisement as a healthy Health Insurance provider this creative calendar was created. The month begins with 31 apples in a specialized tube, every day you remove one apple from the tube and eat it, thus giving a boost to your health. The rest of the apples in the tube will move up and display today's date on a calendar fastened behind the apples.

Harley-Davidson Handlebars Calendar Advertisement: The calendar has handlebars, landscapes, people's reactions and a subjective point of view, just to let people imagine the experience of riding a Harley-Davidson for 365 days and get them to realize that a Harley-Davidson is the best point of view you can choose.

World Wide Bakery Calendar Advertisement:

Keskin Calendar Advertisement: An original car tire was integrated in this calendar; month-to-month the calendar sheets showed a stylish new Keskin rim and in doing so changing the calendar sheet became like changing the rim.

3M Calendar Advertisement: This 3M calendar consists of ears - one for each month and one for each day. The 3M earplug is moved from one ear to another for 365 days.

Post-it Super Sticky Notes Calendar Advertisement: The Hand commands respect. No one can ignore The Hand. As a matter of fact, why not let The Hand do ALL of your talking for you? You have 300 chances to get your point across. High Five!

Companhia Athletica Gym Calendar Advertisement: As getting back in shape is a long-term arduous process; two good-humored calendars were created. There was a silhouette of a man on one while that of a woman on the other. In January we see the overweight silhouette, but as the months go by, the results begins to appear and they get in shape.

Bosch Calendar Advertisement: To promote Bosch Rotak 43 LI lawn mower this creative calendar was created. "Every page in the calendar is cut in a special way to initially create the individual impression of an untended lawn. The recipient becomes part of the action and has to tear off a calendar page every day. By doing this, he is actually continuing to 'mow' day by day and so, bit-by-bit, he has a perfectly cut lawn in front of him at the end of the year. It's an authentic and unique mowing experience, because the width of the calendar corresponds exactly to the width of the lawn mower."

Stihl Calendar Advertisement: The tear-off autumn calendar looses its leaves automatically and thus shows the necessity of Stihl leaf blower in an entertaining way - day by day.

Shipping Company's Calendar Advertisement: To promote the reliable service of the shipping company this creative calendar was created. At first glance it looks like a regular shipment, once you turn the envelope you discover twelve straps. With each day that goes by, the straps can be pulled off bit by bit until the envelope is entirely opened by Dec 31st, when it shows an enclosed response form for the calendar for the next year.

Balloon Calendar Advertisement:

Studio Universal Calendar Advertisement: In this unusual calendar, months have been positioned on a series of 6 x-rays, each one emphasizing a symbol of cinema genre.

Sparkasse Bank Calendar Advertisement:

Leader Clothing Store T-shirt Calendar Advertisement: A fashion store's advertisement; this cool t-shirt calendar came with 3 pens to note special dates.

IWC Schaffhausen Calendar Advertisement: Top IWC clients were given a watch box containing a tiny calendar featuring 12 photographs of original IWC parts in their actual size. Next to the calendar were tweezers and a loupe - the same as those used by IWC watchmakers. This little glimpse into the world of IWC could be turned into a personalized tour of the factory in Schaffhausen.

StavropolPromStroyBank Calendar Advertisement:

Positive Attitude Quotes, Sayings about Attitudes thoughts Life

feroz557@gmail.com — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:04:11 PDT

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t get very far ’till you change it – Author Unknown.

Attitude is everything – Author Unknown.

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake but if you die poor its definitely your mistake – Bill Gates.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done – Bo Bennett.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me – David Bailey.

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same ~ Francesca Reigler.

If you treat people right they will treat you right – ninety percent of the time – Franklin D. Roosevelt.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort – Herm Albright.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights – Peace Pilgrim.

A change in attitude can change your life! – Sasha Azevedo.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton.

I don’t need your attitude, I’ve got one of my own – Unknown.

Excuses are the reason for failure – Unknown.

If you think you are better than me, then you will be better off alone – Unknown.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability – Walter Scott.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference – Winston Churchill.

30 Incredibly Creative Things: (Majority of us are lazy) Lets See How?

feroz557@gmail.com — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:24:50 PDT

Lets face it, a majority of us are lazy and always looking for a new way to do things. Check out some of these incredibly creative things. Some are useless but still kinda cool nonetheless

Spectacular Car Sculpture By Gerry Judah

feroz557@gmail.com — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:05:36 PDT

Spectacular car shaped sculpture designed by Gerry Judah commemorates the 50 year anniversary of Jaguar E-Type. Breathtaking innovation can be the only and the best attribute that can be awarded to the Spectacular Car Sculpture E-type structure of Jaguar by Gerry Judah. The height of this sculpture is 28 meters and it is completely made of steel (the quantity of steel used in building is estimated to be around half a kilometer of steel tubing). Gerry designed this sculpture for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in Sussex in UK. The diameter of this beautiful sculpture is 1.2 meters and the weight is estimated to be above 175 tonnes.

Unique sculpture was unveiled at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

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Vintage silver plate: sterling silver Skull Spoons or Skoons

feroz557@gmail.com — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:37:08 PDT

Combining the imagery of death with an instrument used to nourish is an artistic juxtaposition found in the hand-crafted spoons by Dallas artist Pinky Diablo, aka Tom Sale. He has taken vintage silverplate and Sterling silver spoons of various sizes and creatively turned them into Skull Spoons, or Skoons, if you will.

The original and individual skulls designed spoons vary in size, texture and some even have engraved words on the back. Some have a twist in the handle, some are teaspoons, others are serving spoons. And in addition to the human skulls, Tom has created cow and cattle skull spoons as well. Each has what appears to be either a bullet hole or a gash in the heads of the skulls (undoubtedly the cause of death).

Now, I wouldn't attempt to eat peas with these suckers, but you can display them in a shadow box, on a table or simply suspend them from a string like the artist has exhibited them:

If you'd like a spoonful of spookiness, the individual pieces of flatware, which are only $45 a piece, can be ordered directly from the artist via e-mail.

all images in this post are courtesy of artist Tom Sale

14 Clever engagement ring designed (Unique rings design & style)

feroz557@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:09:53 PDT

Modern rings design come in all shapes and sizes. This post showcases the most creative and unusual ring designs.

Minimal Ring

Combine it with other jewelry or wear alone for a minimalist look.

Nail File Ring

Useful ring with a partial rasp coating made out of stainless steel.

Sandwich Ring

BLT ring consists of bacon, lettuce, tomato, and two bread pieces.

Stamp Ring

Ring me ring lets you leave an impression of your phone number.

Knot Ring

Twisted sterling silver wire soldered together in the shape of a knot.

Revolver Ring

Full scale replica of a 44 Cal revolver chamber made into a ring.

Smiley Ring

Happy face ring made out of pure sterling, not just silver plated.

Frankenstein and Pirate Rings

Cool rings made by London based jewelry designer Dog State.

Two Finger Ring

Stylish ring with rectangular silver bar inspired by brass knuckles.

Gas Mask Ring

Unique pure silver ring looks like a gas mask with rubber hose.

Heart Ring

Ring casts a heart shaped shadow to symbolize the eternal love.

Flower Ring

Stylish nature inspired rings are shaped like beautiful flowers.

Question Mark Ring

Clever engagement ring designed to look like a question mark.

BMW Motorrad E-Scooter design: Electric Drive Commuter Concept Vehicle

feroz557@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:02:16 PDT

In an effort to design more innovative alternatives for the increasing population of commuters, BMW has designed an all electric, but powerful scooter, that seats two. The future-oriented concept vehicle has a battery that can be charged in less than three hours in a common household outlet.

The concept vehicle had two main requirements for its development: dynamic figures comparable to those of a maxi scooter with a combustion engine and a high range in realistic conditions of use. And here's the result: The BMW Motorrad Concept Vehicle BMW E-Scooter.

The press release, July 1,2011:
BMW Motorrad Innovation Day 2011.

Innovative development study with electric drive.
Space is becoming increasingly scarce in the major conurbation centres and traffic density is growing continuously. Political and social conditions are changing. All these factors coalesce in increasing demands in terms of private transportation. The concept vehicle BMW E-Scooter with electric drive provides an innovative look at changing urban mobility needs.

While the currently available, purely electrically-powered scooters have been almost exclusively used inside towns and cities to date due to their performance and range, which makes them suitable for short distances only, the concept vehicle BMW E-Scooter offers a much broader spectrum of use.

High range and excellent performance figures.
Since it was conceived as a future-oriented vehicle for commuting between urban areas and the city centre, therefore attracting funding from the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, there were two main requirements for its development: dynamic figures comparable to those of a maxi scooter with a combustion engine and a high range in realistic conditions of use.

The concept vehicle BMW E-Scooter provides the necessary sustained output and maximum speed for safe and reliable overtaking on urban motorways and also when carrying two people. It is also easily capable of managing hill starts on steep slopes with a pillion passenger.

The development study also has the necessary maximum output to be able to achieve acceleration figures within the important 0 - 60 km/h range, which are at the level of current maxi scooters powered by a 600 cc combustion engine.

The high storage capacity of the battery allows a daily driving range of over 100 kilometres. In this way, the BMW E-Scooter concept vehicle provides a long-term, zero-emissions urban and suburban travel option which is suitable for everyday use.

Fast charging at conventional power sockets.
The E-Scooter concept vehicle's battery is charged at regular household power sockets as found in Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan, so no special charging station is required. When the battery is completely flat, the charging period is less than three hours. However, practical experience has shown that the battery rarely runs out completely, so charging times are generally shorter.

Frame.
Unlike existing maxi scooters with combustion engines, the concept vehicle does not have a main frame. Instead, the aluminium battery casing - which also contains the electronic system required for battery cell monitoring -takes over the function of the frame. The steering head support is connected to it, as is the rear frame and the left-hand mounted single swing arm with directly hinged, horizontally installed shock absorber.

Electric machine, power electronics and charging device.
Due to its high output, the BMW Motorrad development study has no hub motor with direct drive or planetary gearbox. Instead, the high-performance electric machine is mounted behind the battery casing. The secondary drive consists of a toothed belt from the electric machine to the belt pulley mounted coaxially on the swinging fork pivot with drive pinion. From here, power transmission occurs via roller chain to the rear wheel. When the E-Scooter is decelerated in trailing throttle or when braking, the energy released is recuperated, thereby increasing the vehicle's range by between 10 and 20 per cent depending on driving profile.

The electrical components required for the electric drive are installed on the top of the battery casing. The external battery electronics system permanently collects and monitors data such as the temperature and voltage of the battery cells, both during travel and while charging. The power electronics acts as a control system and controls the electric machine. The charging device includes a charge cable which allows the battery to be recharged at a conventional household power socket. In addition to the other components like an ISO insulation monitor, high-voltage indicator and a high-voltage distributor, a DC-DC converter is included. It is required to change high voltage to low voltage power to supply the 12 volt vehicle supply and especially for the control units.

Cooling system.
During travel, the electric machine and power electronics are liquid-cooled, as is the charging device during charging. An electric coolant pump ensures coolant circulation through the radiator. While a coolant is commonly used for the battery in electrically powered cars, the E-Scooter concept vehicle uses an air cooling system in order to save space.

Safety.
BMW Motorrad is one of the very few motorcycle manufacturers to be able to draw on its own experience and expertise in the automobile field in the development of electrically powered vehicles. Synergies are derived from the development of the BMW E-Scooter concept vehicle not just in the ready availability of technical components but also in the area of high voltage engineering and the associated safety requirements. Here for the first time, standards established by the leading automobile manufacturers relating to high voltage safety (> 60 volt) and functional reliability are being applied to a two-wheel vehicle with electric drive.

click on the above image to enlarge
[Source: BMW] and images courtesy of Autoblog.

Transparent Pontiac General Motors built for the 1940s Deluxe Six

feroz557@gmail.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:45:47 PDT

For its upcoming auction at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan in late July, RM Auctions will offer a most extraordinary Pontiac – a transparent display car that General Motors built for the 1940s World’s Fair. GM developed two transparent cars for the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940, one of which was a Deluxe seven-window touring sedan and the other of which was a Torpedo five-window touring sedan.

To prepare the transparent chassis of the 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six, GM collaborated with Rohm & Haas, the chemical company that had recently developed Plexiglas. Using drawings for the Pontiac four-door Touring Sedan, Rohm & Haas constructed an exact replica body using Plexiglas in place of the outer sheet-metal. The structural metal underneath was given a copper wash, and all hardware, including the dashboard, was chrome plated. Rubber moldings were made in white, as were the car’s tires. It reportedly cost $25,000 to build – an astronomical figure in those days.

A second car, on a Torpedo Eight chassis, was hurriedly constructed for the 1940 Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island, a man-made island in San Francisco Bay. Once their respective showcases had closed, both “Plexiglas Pontiacs,” or “Ghost Cars” as they were sometimes known, toured the nation’s dealerships. The 1939-40 Deluxe Six is the only one known to survive.
Following the dealership tour, it went on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. where it remained through the duration of World War II. From there, it went to a couple of Pontiac dealers in Pennsylvania before another Pennsylvanian, Don Barlup, bought it in 1973. Barlup commissioned a partial restoration from S& H Pontiac of Harrisburg and sold it to collector Leo Gephart in 1979. The current owner’s father purchased it from Gephart in the early 1980s, and it has remained in the same family ever since.

[via Hemmings Blog]

Custom Pet Nose Necklaces handmade jewelry (dogs & cats)

feroz557@gmail.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:33:50 PDT

Incredible Things posted these fabulous custom pet pendants cast from the noses of dogs and cats the other day, so I simply had to dig a little deeper. And I'm glad I did or I'd never have discovered handmade jewelry designer Jackie Kaufman and her Rock My World, Inc.

Even better, An extraordinary pieces are made from "recycled items" sterling silver. The jewelry is crafted from a major jewelry firm that no longer sells their items. Jackie "recycles" the silver by taking the jewelry pieces, melting them down and repouring the silver to make new pieces.

Cat Nose:

Dog Nose:

Using the lost wax cast process, Jackie will not only immortalize your beloved pet's nose as a pendant, but also as sterling silver keychains and belt buckles!

Sterling Silver Custom Cast Cat and Dog Nose keychains:

Custom Dog Nose Sterling Silver Belt Buckle:

The backs of the pieces are inscribed with your pet's name:

Jackie creates many forms of fabulous handcast sterling silver jewelry including human fingerprints and more. Be sure to see all her stunning work at her etsy store Buy here.

12 Creative Insurance Advertising Ideas: Insurance ads campaign

feroz557@gmail.com — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:03:11 PDT

Bowling Lane Insurance Advertisement: Karstadtquelle insurance creatively designed & used the bowling lanes for advertising its dentalimplant coverage. Banners with a face printed on them were attached to the wall at the end of the lanes and when a bowling ball hits the pins it looked like the teeth were knocked out.

Vodafone Phone Insurance Advertising : To promote its phone insurance, 'Vodafone' came up with this cool idea. In Romania a phone is stolen every two minutes; people are aware of the fact but they don't believe that it can happen to them. So to drive the point home and make people consider insuring their phones, 'Vodafone' hired professionals to slip the flyers promoting the Vodafone insurance into their bags, purses, pockets or any other place they would keep their phone. This way it proved to the future customers how vulnerable they are.

Allianz Paper Wheel-Clumps Car Insurance Advertisement: To promote its car insurance, 'Allianz Insurance Company' came up with this creative idea. The company wanted the drivers to acknowledge the fact that more than 1300000 car components are stolen in Czech Republic every year and how vulnerable they are. To drive home the message they installed 7000 paper wheel-clumps that simulated the car wheel being stolen.

Delta Generali Insurance: This one is a rather unusual and an interesting concept that McCann Erickson Belgrade Ad Agency, Serbia came up for its client 'Delta Generali Insurance'. The goal was to narrow an extremely long list of candidates for the position of a financial manager in Delta Generali Insurance Advertising Ideas and to choose the one with honesty, loyalty, legalism and respect for the law in Serbia. To achieve this, it was decided to use the specific blue envelopes that have been used as legal or government invitations for years in Serbia. As these governmental envelopes need to be handed personally and signed by the person who receives it, many people avoided it by all means. Hence interview invitations were sent in 'blue envelopes ' to all the candidates, knowing that only the most loyal and honest candidates will accept it and show up for the interview. And as a result only seven candidates showed up for the interview.

Centraal Beheer Insurance Sunshade Advertising : Centraal Beheer insurance company wanted to promote their car insurance, but the budget was limited, so the use of traditional media wasn't possible. DDB Amsterdam, Netherlands came up with this creative idea to promote the car insurance; winner of Bronze Eurobest Winner created lots of goodwill for the company, besides the company received huge number of phone calls requesting information on car insurance.

FBTO BokitoViewer Advertising Ideas: A gorilla named Bokito escaped from Rotterdam Zoo; presuming that gorillas do not like direct eye contact, Health insurance company FBTO came up with an interesting solution, so the weekend after the escape they distributed more than 2.000 so-called BokitoViewers at the entrance to Rotterdam Zoo.

HSBC Insurance Advertising Ideas: HSBC came up with this interesting concept to let its customers know that it's the best moment to have an insurance policy with special rates at their branches.

SulAmerica Health Insurance Magazine ads campaign: "SulAmerica prevents you from doing the same with the resources of your company".

Farmers Insurance Advertising Ideas:

HSBC Iceberg Car Insurance Ad:

ETB Insurance Advertising Ideas:

Pacific Health Insurance Advertising Ideas:

Maptor – A Map & Projector 2 in 1 (Device includes GSM)

feroz557@gmail.com — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:56:00 PDT

Who use paper maps are often annoyed by wrapping and unwrapping it. One more disadvantage of a paper map is that it does not allow to define your precise location fast and easily. Designers Jin-Sun Park and Seon-keun Park come with a great solution of these problems called Maptor. Maptor is a compact and stylish concept that combines a map & a projector that will project the desired map onto whatever surface – table, wall or even your palm. What is more, this device includes GSM that will help you to define your precise location on the map..

12 Creative Candles Designs & Decoration Ideas to set your mood in style

feroz557@gmail.com — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:30:04 PDT

Collection of modern candles and unusual candle designs that will help you set the mood in style.

Money to Burn Candle

Burning money in this economy would seem a bit absurd, unless you were using a Money to Burn Candle.

5 Minute Candles

Designed to look like an ordinary book of matches, each package contains 10 small candles.

BRAVIT Candle

Cool candle with extremely flat design reveals its inner wick structure that defines the path through which the fire will travel.

Bleeding Candle

They look like ordinary candles until they are lit. Then, as they melt, they ooze bloody wax down their sides.

Beer Scented Candle

Guys will love the fresh brewery fragrance that smells just like a cold one! Full scent concentration used throughout, so the candle smells just as good each time you burn it.

Electronic Candle

Aram Bartholl has used a combination of resistance wire, copper wire, switch, and 12V power transformer to light a candle.

Coffee Cup Candle

Unique candle design by Denis Belenko looks like a cup of coffee.

80 Hour Candle

The festive Red Cinnamon scented 80 Hour candle allows you to set the amount of time it burns before it automatically extinguishes itself.

LED Blow On-Off Candles

Regular candles will blow out if you blow on the flame, but these LED candles will also blow on.

Explosive Candles

Candles in shape of real bombs and dynamites. Made in Russia.

LEGO Candle

Burn those memories of childhood brightly with LEGO brick candles.

Chalkboard Candle

Hand-poured in Los Angeles with 100% unscented soy wax. All candles come gift boxed with a chalk pack.

Stunning Incepto GT: Black Elegant Concept Car designed

feroz557@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:30:52 PDT

Elegant concept car designed from duet Sasha Selipanov and Samir Sadikhov. Previous one – really exciting BMW 328 Hommage Concept Car got a lot of attention from our readers and today we want to show Incepto GT. Clean lines, strong and elegant design make this car a worthy opponent to any concept car. Additionally to the stunning design we want to admit perfect rendering. Unfortunately even interesting concept is nothing without quality post-processing. So take a look and don’t forget to comment!

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Rich Bachelors Matchmaking Event Held in China (60 beautiful women)

feroz557@gmail.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:47:42 PDT

Chinese bachelors (with enough cash in their bank accounts) who wanted to find a nice hot girlfriend, had a chance to pick from 60 beautiful women parading in swimsuits, during a rich-only matchmaking event, in Wuhan.

Beautiful girls dressed in sexy swimsuits parading on a small stage set up on a beach – that sounds a lot like a beauty pageant or a fashion show, except for the audience made-up almost exclusively of men who couldn’t take their eyes off the beautiful contestants. It was actually a special matchmaking event addressed to China’s rich bachelors. The 60 girls who paraded in front of their potential boyfriends had qualified from a previous round, and tried their best to prove they made suitable arm-candy.

In order to gain admittance to the event, the men had to pay a 99,999 ($15,425) fee and provide proof they owned assets of over 30 million yuan ($4,627,000) or had an annual income of at least 1 million yuan ($154,237). So the next time you’re in China and you see a hot chick, check your pockets before making your move, you may have to qualify for a date.

An Extraordinary Kissing Mask designed for a Perfect Kiss

feroz557@gmail.com — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:43:39 PDT

Wear a mask to kiss? What a stupid idea that may sound… But wait, wait, Didier Faustino’s Doppelganger is in fact an extraordinary kissing mask especially designed for special occasion like days with epidemic disease. As this double-sided mask has a small hole, two people’s lips will make to meet through it while not let others see them.

Doppelgänger kissing mask seems to prevent contact and yet it creates a link between the mouths which slot into one another at the perfect kissing angle.

Didier Faustino created a device that controls the kiss between two people.

Clever Quotes, Sayings about becoming Clever

feroz557@gmail.com — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:46:47 PDT

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise – Adolf Hitler.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious – Albert Einstein.

God is clever, but not dishonest – Albert Einstein.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile – Albert Schweitzer.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory – Benjamin Disraeli.

Those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes – cleverness, maybe – wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart – Benjamin Hoff.

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand – Bertrand Russell.

I prefer players not to be too good or clever at other things. It means they concentrate on football – Bill Nicholson.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first – Cesare Pavese.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever – Charles Kingsley.

Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a ‘too-smiley’ face is seldom considered a humane person – Confucius.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil – C.S. Lewis.

You would think I would be smart enough to figure it out myself after about three years, but I wasn’t quite clever enough – Darren Clarke.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things. After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones – David Jenkins.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties – Emil Nolde.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too – Euripides.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does – Francois de la Rochefoucauld.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever – Francois de la Rochefoucauld.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so – Francois De La Rochefoucauld.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them – Frank Moore Colby.

The surest aid in combating the male’s disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman – Friedrich Nietzsche.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men – George Bernard Shaw.

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time – George Bernard Shaw.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense – George Christoph Lichtenberg.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are – George Christoph Lichtenberg.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them – Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid – Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it – Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

A clever man commits no minor blunders – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment – Lao Tzu.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others – Livy.

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is – Mary Pettibone Poole.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions – Naguib Mahfouz.

Here’s a rule of thumb. Too clever is dumb – Ogden Nash.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say – Oscar Wilde.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying – Oscar Wilde.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds – Percy Ross.

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move – Robert Hall.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool – Rudyard Kipling.

It does not matter if you think I’m clever or otherwise, my opinions are still the same and equally valid – Thomas Harrison.

Clever tyrants are never punished – Voltaire.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them – Walter Kerr.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say – Will Durant.

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now – William Of Baskerville.

When you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack – Winston Churchill.

The Baby C Cradle - A Modern Walnut Wood Interior Womb For Infants

feroz557@gmail.com — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:50:13 PDT

The Baby C is a modern cradle inspired by the warm, closed environment of a mother’s womb. With a polyethylene shell and a walnut wood interior, the cradle comes with a specially designed mattress:

earlier in the design progress:

Designed by Dripta Roy, co-founder of Puur Design Studio. Available in Europe this fall for €2650 + taxes, by winter in North America—can be pre-ordered at sales@puur.ca

Embroidered Bridal Dress | Pattern Bridal Dresses | Modern traditional bridal dres

feroz557@gmail.com — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:50:34 PDT

Red color is usually being selected for the dresses for brides, but now days other colors are also being preferred according to the ceremony, weather and the taste of the brides. Here we have some gorgeous Bridal Dresses 2011 2012 for you. All the Bridal Dresses are made according to the current fashion and modern techniques. The design and the outfit of the dresses are really remarkable and superb; you will like all these gorgeous Bridal Dresses.

Cultural Bridal Dress

Cultural Look

This Lehnga Choli is in red color looking marvelous. Splendid work has been done on it to make this so beautiful and perfect for Bride. Regular lehenga outfit is looking cool with heavy embroidery and Zaree work on it. Choli is in short half sleeve pattern with low and wide crew neck style. Zaree work at bosom is perfect according to the overall designing mechanism.

Modern Bridal Dress

Dress worn by a bride during the wedding ceremony is called Bridal Dress. Color, style and ceremonial significance of the dress depends on the religion, culture, race and the taste of the wedding participants.

In South Asia, brides usually worn heavy dresses those have been nurtured with intensive embroidery and other fancy work. The most important and the most famous Bridal Dresses in South Asia are Saree, Lehnga Choli, Shalwar Kameez embroidered dresses. All the dresses have grave and extensive fancy work to have a fancier and beautiful look.

Rajistani Bridal Dress

This Lehenga Choli Bridal Dress in purple color has unique impact of color combination and the best match of choli and lehenga pattern. Straight cut lehnga outfit is perfect for slim and smart brides. There is no heavy work on it but, it has some fancy and decent Zaree work which is looking awesome. Choli is in modern style and looking so gorgeous. Sleeve less Choli pattern with wide and low back neck style shows the modernity of this blouse.

Embroidered Bridal Dress

Simple Bridal Dress

Pink color always attracts and if it has been used in Bridal Dresses, than everybody will attracts with the beauty of this color. This Lehenga Choli is in pink color has marvelous and perfect embroidery and zaree work on it, which make this Bridal Dress so perfect and so beautiful that everybody will like this. Silver color thread, zaree work with tattoos and readymade flower designs are being used to develop this beauty. Both Lehenga and Choli is is simple and regular outfit, which is looking awesome and decent.

Chic Bridal Dress

Bridal Fish Lehenga Style

Two color combinations are now being used to develop modern and fashionable Bridal Dresses. This modern two color Bridal Lehenga Choli dress consists of fast reddish modern Choli and with fish cut Lehenga in green color. The dress has little work on it but still looking beautiful. Sleeve less choli is in extra length pattern because it has low and wide crew neck style. Silver thread work looking splendid on this Bridal Dress.

Bridal Fish Dresses 2011-12

Fish cut lehenga pattern is one of the most famous latest designers outfit. This mustered color Lehenga Choli have nice impact with the use of brownish color embroidery and zaree work. Lehenga is in fish cut pattern and looking marvelous while choli is in more modern style. Shoulder less choli has beautiful lining pattern in silver color which looking awesome.

Stylish Bridal Dresses

This bridal dress have the same theme as I explained above, but the color is more decent and attractive.

Bridal Lehenga Choli

Here we have some modern creations in Lehenga Choli dresses. Designers really done well and creates such a fabulous Bridal Dresses to change the traditional taste.

This Lehnga Choli Bridal Dress is in unique format. Lehenga has extra tail, which is looking great and fashionable. The theme is being taken from British Bridal Dresses. The Choli is being stitched like a short kurti. It has extra length, while the sleeves are in half fashion.

Mughal Bridal Dresses

This modern lehenga choli is looking more fashionable, the girls who want to look more fashionable and modern on their marriages will like this Lehenga Choli dress. One shoulder less choli in silver color fabric has slim tight pattern, while the lehenga is in simple and regular pattern. Beautiful Zaree, motif and embroidery work is being done on this modern bridal dress.

Bandhani Bridal Dresses

Indian Bridal Dress

Embroidered Bridal Dress

Banarsi Bridal Dresses

Asian Bridal Dress

Here we have some more fashionable, beautiful Lehnga Choli Bridal Dresses for you. You can find all the stuff and demanding designs and patterns according to your traditional and fashion taste. You will find some modern traditional bridal dress in this collection. Color combinations are also really superb and you will find every beautiful and dashing color in this collection.

Sprout blossoming right inside your book or on the Edge of the book

feroz557@gmail.com — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:14:10 PDT

Cute little sprout blossoming right inside your book! The little bookmark can be placed either inside the book, where the leaves will actually open up as if they're really blossoming when you open the book, or it can be placed on the edge of the book. Buy it here ($6 - set of 2)