Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Unique private bench in Berlin | Dangerous Private Bench

scary private bench

private bench is a little bit scary and it can hurt you. The idea is simple: if you want to sit on it, you need to pay. It only costs 0,50 EUR. I don’t know for how much time though.
This Private Bench was invented and designed by Berlin artist Fabian Brunsing.
You’ll see some of the pictures inside the post and check out the video for details.



























Top 10 World Most Dangerous Airports



Engineers tasked with building an Airport are faced with countless challenges: The ideal location needs ample space, endless flat ground, favorable winds and great visibility. But spots in the real world are rarely ideal, and engineers are forced to work with what they have, making sure that the end product is the safest possible structure for pilots. A survey of airports around the world turns up a mixed bag, ranging from dangerous and rugged landing strips to mega-size facilities that operate like small cities. Here, PM explores the world's most remarkable airports and why they stand out.

1:- Kansai International Airport Osaka, Japan
2:- Gibraltar Airport
3:- Madeira International Airport Madeira, Portugal
4:- Don Mueang International Airport Bangkok, Thailand
5:- Ice Runway Antarctica
6:- Congonhas Airport Sao Paulo, Brazil
7:- Courchevel International Airport Courchevel, France
8:- Princess Juliana International Airport Simpson Bay, Saint Maarten
9:- Svalbard Airport Svalbard, Norway
10:- Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport Saba, Netherlands Antilles

Source:- Wonders World

Monday, July 12, 2010

The World's First Inflatable Pub



Olde Worlde It is perhaps the ultimate in local pubs — so local that it’s in your back garden.

Website Drink stuff.com has come up with a range of blow-up hostelries in an ‘olde-worlde ’ style that can be inflated on your own turf.

However, you’ll need a lot of beer money to buy one.

The biggest model — the Hogshead — is 26ft tall and 15ft wide and costs £27,815.

It takes (the website claims) just ten minutes for four adults to set up, and you can invite up to 50 people inside to celebrate your new ‘landlord’ status.

Inside, the pub includes features such as a tiled roof, a fireplace, a brick stone wall and two chimney pots.

Three smaller models — called the Barrel, Kilderkin and Firkin — start at £4,275.

With imitation tiled roof, brick walls, chimney pots and fireplaces, you could almost be in a real pub.

The only thing that’s missing, of course, is a darts board…


Word first bridges aren't built - they're grown in india

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown.


The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves.


Cherrapunji is credited with being the wettest place on earth, and The War-Khasis, a tribe in Meghalaya, long ago noticed this tree and saw in its powerful roots an opportunity to easily cross the area’s many rivers. Now, whenever and wherever the need arises, they simply grow their bridges.


In order to make a rubber tree’s roots grow in the right direction – say, over a river – the Khasis use betel nut trunks, sliced down the middle and hollowed out, to create root-guidance systems.
The thin, tender roots of the rubber tree, prevented from fanning out by the betel nut trunks, grow straight out. When they reach the other side of the river, they’re allowed to take root in the soil. Given enough time, a sturdy, living bridge is produced.


The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong - strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time. In fact, because they are alive and still growing, the bridges actually gain strength over time - and some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunjee may be well over five hundred years old.


One special root bridge, believed to the only one of its kind in the world, is actually two bridges stacked one over the other and has come to be known as the "Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge."


These bridges were re-discovered by Denis P. Rayen of the Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort. Due to his efforts to promote interest in the bridges, the local population has been alerted to their potential worth and has kept them from being destroyed in favor of steel ones. What's more, a new root bridge is currently being grown and should be ready for use within a decade.


Sculptures made of plastic | Recycled plastic Materials