EXPENSIVE Home Theatres!

Here a some really expensive home theatres with some interesting designs and themes!

CEDIA (the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association) chose this room as its top theme theater

Kim Banducci and custom installed by Future Home of Los Angeles, California, Price unknown

music engineer, producer Jeremy Kipnis, $6,000,000

built by builder Aaron Vitale of Vital Building & Enterprises in his own home $100,000

Ferreri F40 Executive desk

This Ferrari F40 office desk is a cool addition to the racing enthusiast's office. It features a Rosso Corsa painted aluminum frame with carbon fiber support rails and a floating glass top. The top glass features a center mounted wire access hole, which is the actual dash vent from a Ferrari F40! It costs $7,500, which includes a custom color of your choice. I thought this desk was pretty awesome, I like the way it was designed to look and feel like the interior of a ferrari, definately something to brag about!!

Born rich.org

This Citrus-Powered Digital Clock from Florian Dussopt & Julie Girard is powered by electrolysis and the citrus juices of a lemon or orange. My science teacher had one of these and i thought it was cool. There are two spikes (one copper and one zinc) which are stabbed into the fruit and this produces a current using the juice as a transport medium. One slice of fruit can power the clock for a week!

The Design Blog

New Rescue device for sea bearers 'Ocean Rescue'

The orange ‘Ocean Rescue’ is a device that refines the salty water of the sea and makes it potable to drink. This greatly increases the chances of survival for shipwreck victims. Not only that but the Ocean Rescue also helps the lifeguards in locating the victims by emitting light at night and colorful smoke during the day. With increases visibility and drinkable water while stranded at sea the 'Ocean Rescue ' is one device which every deep see fisherman should have. It's simple design makes it durable and reliable. I think that this device is very clever and should be required on deep sea boats. It was designed by Seol-Hee Sohn, Seung-Hyun Yoon & Cheol-Yeon Cho.

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'Brandscape' Project

Restoring an Underwater city

Seuthopolis


In the 1940s, archaeologists discovered the ancient city of Seuthopolis in Bulgaria, the capital of the Odrysian Kingdom beginning in the 4th century BC. Unfortunately, after the destruction of a nearby dam the valley was flooded and the city drowned. Now over half a century later, a project proposed by Bulgarian architect Zheko Tilev would restore the city by building a huge circular dam (1,377 feet in diameter and 65 in height) around it and draining out the water. If this project is completed it would prove to be a marvelous success and a huge tourist attraction to Bulgaria.

From Blueprints to Databases

Lansdowne Road- Ireland Pipe Planning using BMI

economist.com

Building Information Modeling (BMI) is a new software used by architects in the construction of buildings. It allows one to see the proposed structure in 3 dimensions instead of the usual 2 dimension hand drawn drawn blueprints. One neat function of BMI is that when an architects changes and object on the building ( such as the size of a window) then the program automatically changes the structure of any relating objects ( in this case the surrounding walls). BMI makes it much harder to make the common mistakes which most architects make and it also allows traditional 2 dimension drawings to be generated. BMI allows one to predict the amount of materials required for the structure and therefore more accurate construction costs. BMI makes is possible to extract detailed plans of particular subsystems, such as cooling, water and electrical wiring which in turn allows architects and engineers to study their project's and work together better than ever before. Where traditional 2 dimension blueprints are often complicated, new BMI simulations allow you to see the entire building from many angles, inside and out. This new technology is going to require more advanced computer skills in upcoming architects but it will no doubt improve the creativity and possibly safety of our future buildings.