The Insect Hotel is the winner of the British Land (a British real estate company) architecture competition called Beyond the Hive for artists to come up with designs for urban habitats for insect species.
The competition was held in London and the winning design was from a London based architecture consulting firm, Arup [...]

Wohr Multiparker system is an innovative and space saving parking system. The structure is modeled in similar lines to a high-rack shelving system with parking spaces stacked above and beside one another laterally arranged on either side of a conveyor aisle.

Here is a video of an underground public automatic car park with 404 parking [...]

Above is an interesting info-graphic from Future Exploration Network and it explores the economics of recycling mobile phones versus extracting gold from ores and the study states that used mobile phones yield 1000 times more gold than gold ore.
Click on the image to download a large version of the info-graphic. [via]

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak spatial operating environment — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Don’t miss the TED talk video above.

Roll It is a cylindrical house design by a team from various departments of the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

The experimental modular prototype provides a flexible space within a minimum housing unit. Three different sections are dedicated to different functional needs: there’s a bed and table in section, an exercise cylinder, and [...]

Scientists at the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an inkjet-style printing technology that can successfully print solar cells on paper.
The paper solar cells are one of many avenues being pursued around nano-scale materials. Layers of these materials could essentially be sprayed using different manufacturing techniques to make [...]

Jack Chair is a concept chair design by a Paris based industrial designer, Arthur Bodolec. The idea is that the furniture “comes alive” when it is used. The chair which is in the form of a box or an unbloomed flower when not used, forms different shapes when someone sits on it.

Following is a video [...]

Read Write Web has an interesting post on the startup and rock band culture. In fact I agree that, entrepreneurs are like rock stars in the startup world. Interestingly, the journey of an entrepreneur through the startup experience is a lot like that of a musician seeking stardom and millions of adoring fans.
The above [...]

Created by Florentine designer Sael Bartolucci, the Geo Table is meant to evoke the feeling of topographical mirroring.
Inspired by the mountains and valleys of Southern California, The Geo Table tricks the eye into seeing an expanse of depth and dimension through carefully engineered and elegantly layered cuts of wood. A housing of etched [...]