The Water Discus Underwater Hotel is a concept developed by Deep Ocean Technology. The project has garnered enough backing to move forward thanks to Swiss firm BIG InvestConsult and will be built soon in Dubai. The hotel is made up of two discs – a common area above water and the suites for guests below. If this seems interesting, also check out this restaurant and this hotel in the Maldives. More photos after the break.
DJ Drama releases the remix to his hit single, “We In This B*tch” with the addition of a Drake and Future verse. Turn ^!
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via boredpanda. This bathroom is inside a penthouse in a home built in Guadalajara, Mexico. The bathroom itself was built over an old elevator shaft and topped with a transparent floor. Extreme bathrooming anyone? More photos below.
via lanciatrendvisions. Villa Noi is a house located in Thailand next to the Phang Nga bay. Designed by Duangrit Bunnag Architect. More photos below.
I’ve never heard of ILLPO before, but I’m digging this record… I’ll be checking for their music from now on. Grab their newest mixtape here. Video after the break.
This the Bandra Ohm, a 30-story skyscraper designed by James Law Cybertecture to be built in India. Each residential unit features a glass-walled pool for a balcony. Pretty cool!
via ukmirror. I thought this was funny. More photos below. (Slightly NSFW)
(UK Mirror) – Austrians considering renaming their village from F*cking to Fugging have been told to think again – because the name is already taken. Villagers at F*cking in Upper Austria voted yesterday to change the name to Fugging. But then came the news that there used to be a second village with the name F*cking in Austria – and residents there had already bagged the name Fugging more than 100 years ago.
Fugging mayor Andreas Dockner – 200 miles away in Lower Austria – said: “Nobody alive now remembers why it was changed from F*cking to Fugging, but it was and that is now our name. We think one Fugging in Austria is enough.
Now, F*cking mayor Franz Meindl said that apart from the name their tiny village with just over 100 residents would be a rural paradise. He said: “It is beautiful countryside here, it’s otherwise peaceful and we have a good community. It’s only ever the name that causes us troubles.”
F*cking residents said the final straw was a growing number of calls by pranksters from abroad who ring up locals and ask in English “Is That F*cking” – before bursting into laughter and hanging up.
“The phone calls are really the final straw”, said F*cking Mayor Meindl, who confirmed that the villages street signs were regularly stolen – even though they had been welded on steel posts set in concrete in the ground.
Drivers heading into the village often disturbed naked couples romping in front of the signs, and local entrepreneurs made the situation worse by flogging off F*cking postcards – F*cking Christmas cards and even more recently a F*cking beer.
Fugging mayor Dockner added: “If our village was called F*cking, I don’t think it would be a problem – we are proud of it and I’m sure we wouldn’t change the name – I’d advise F*cking not to change anything.”
Also available on the online Austrian telephone book are the villages of “Oberf*cking” “Windpassing”, “Wankham” and “Rottenegg”.
Skrillex collaborates with Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley on this new single entitled “Make It Bun Dem”… dope!
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Software developer Greig Stewart p/k/a Theramin Hero performed a laser harp rendition of the Tetris theme for his audition on Britain’s Got Talent. What is a laser harp you may ask? It is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds. It was invented by Bernard Szajner, and later popularized by Jean Michel Jarre. When I first watched the video, I wondered how it really works. Check out Greig Stewart’s performance (must be watched on YouTube), and a demo by Stephen Hobley after the break. Amazing.
The laser harp below is driven by Arduino (Boarduino variation) and connected to the impOSCar VSTi software synthesizer. The TAOS sensor array sits on its own stand.
