LEGO Land Rover Defender

The LEGO Land Rover Defender is an amazing creation! It is a 1:8.5 scale recreation of Rover's legendary truck, built from nearly 2,800 parts, including 7 motors and 3 IR receivers. It actually runs, controlled via RF with a LEGO-based controller. Along with the intense AWD system and live axles in the front and rear, it also features a five-speed sequential gearbox with an automatic clutch, a two-speed transfer case, and a whole host of working parts like doors, hood, and tailgate. It's currently up on Cuusoo, and needs over 10,000 supporters to become a reality — and pledging your support is free, so there's no reason not to. 
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Wood Castings pieces of furniture by Hilla Shamia

Presenting a striking combination never seen before, these wood-casted pieces of furniture were created by designer Hilla Shamia. These Wood Castings promise a constant visual of the merger between two splendid materials – wood and aluminum. The reaction between hot aluminum and burnt wood creates a clear boundary between the two elements, combining them into a raw stand-still moment.
This allows the “negative factor of burnt wood” to become a focal point with a deep visual impact. When using this technique of combining aluminum and wood, there is only so much control, the small details being left to natural forces. Melted aluminum invaded every crack it could find, intimately bonding with the burnt wood.

The original tree trunk keeps its shape, but it split between the elements composing the collection. A square silhouette gives off an artificial vibe, while protecting the material it is forever bound to.

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Kisai Uzumaki Analog Watch

Adding extra function to a classic timepiece, Tokyoflash Japan has created the Kisai Uzumaki Analog Watch that beams with color. Watches are made to tell time, but are also pieces of art wrapped around the wrist.
The Kisai Uzumaki looks like a whirling vortex of colors. It features a luminous display, bright EL backlighting and reads time like a conventional analog timepiece. The name ‘Uzumaki’ is the Japanese word for whirlpool, hence its swirling design concept.
The colorful swirls aren’t just for aesthetics, they indicate the time in analog format so that a quick glance at the watch will give the time. It’s perfect for night or dark places where there’s no need to squint to tell the hour of day while time is ticking away. The hours are placed on the outside while the minutes are indicated in the inside.
The Kisai Uzumaki is 100% stainless steel and is available in black or silver with blue or green as the display. 
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Heineken Heels

At the Milan Design Week, the now-iconic beer company debuted its new Heineken Heels. The heels follow an unusual, towering architectural design that probably isn’t very comfortable, but looks very high fashion with a silver wrap around the feet and ankles.
Whether or not the shoes will actually be available for purchase has yet to be seen. If the world falls in love with these shoes, Heineken has officially broken completely new ground in the alcohol industry. Heineken presented its heels in its Open Design Explorations: The Club exhibition during the Milan Design Week. Next to these awesome heels, Heineken also presented a few dress designs and lots of other unexpected products.
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The ‘Plicate’ watch

Timepieces can easily become the most noticeable factor in an outfit and the Benjamin Hubert ‘Plicate’ watch will surely turn heads.
From its sleek exterior design to its intricate interior, this watch will surely takeover conversations. What makes this timepiece special is that the inside plate upon which the clock’s hands rotate is not a smooth smooth surface. Instead it is made with a multi-faceted 3-D surface. The metal is pleated making it look like a circular fan. It brings a different way to count the minutes of time instead of using the small lines that used to line clocks. The watches strap uses a button system deviating from its usual belt-like appearance.
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The Jaffa Cakes edible elevator

The Jaffa Cakes edible elevator is installed in the communications company Engine’s offices in London, the lift is papered with lickable wallpaper. Studded with 1,325 Jaffa Cakes, employees can enjoy a sweet lick before heading to the office.
While the Jaffa Cakes edible elevator is full of whimsical fun, it does raise a blatant germ issue. Sure, flavored wallpaper is yummy in theory, but now that it has come to fruition some are skeptical about the health issues it could cause. 
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The Polka Gelato Shop by Vonsung

 The Polka Gelato Shop by Vonsung is as chilly as the product it is selling. Challenging traditional ice cream shop designs, this space trades in bright colors for concrete-clad walls. Looking stark and streamlined, this captivating interior stays true to Polka Gelato’s simplistic branding.
Created by the London-based design studio, this minimalist space contrasts its surrounding historic neighbourhood, with its only pops of color coming from the ice cream itself. Designer Joseph Sung explains Vonsung studio’s attempt to create a modern design that corresponds with its location without clashing with it.

With colorful gelato as the space’s vibrant focal point, the Polka Gelato Shop by Vonsung features the use of a single continuous color throughout the space. Displaying a raw aesthetic, the space is reminiscent of Italy’s cobble stone streets.
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The ‘Aureole Light’

The ‘Aureole Light’ designed by Yuxin Han is a single LED strip that’s accompanied by a ring diffuser, a power source and mirror with some support, all put together to form a amazingly futuristic and heavenly lighting unit. They can be hung from the ceiling in groups or just by themselves and the result will always be just as pleasing.
They blend well with any setting or can be used as a statement piece as well. The best feature of these lights is that they bring a sense of relaxation with them, for their design is purely angelic. Have one hanging above your bed so that every morning you’ll begin your day with a halo above your head.
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The NewChi ‘Ballet’ tea set

The NewChi ‘Ballet’ tea set doesn't only please the metropolitan eye, but also serves as a tribute to the appeal of a ballerina who masters balance and turns it into a graceful dance form.
The pieces in the tea set do not have flat or circular bottoms, rather than all end triangularly and are helped to stand by the handle which also reaches the table at a point. With two small points of contact, the NewChi Ballet tea set is striking and will quickly catch attention if left on a table. The smooth white design reminds one of how effortless and smooth the moves of a ballerina are and the fact that it balances upon two small points makes this tea set the best ode to ballet the world of tea has ever seen.
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Hublot Morphosis by Doettling

Safe maker Doettling paired with Hublot to create this cylindrical steel with lacquered semi-matte Hublot black panel inner tube safe for the ultimate watch collector.
Weighing around 180 kilograms the cylindrical safe sports an inner tube that turns inside of the outer shell, with two set of winders that can hold up to 42 watches.
The top end of the cabinet houses an iPad dock. The connected iPad works as the input method. Users must enter a pass code to reveal the first set of watches.
The user must then enter a second security code to access the second set of timepieces. The iPad can also control other features such as the speed of the watch rotations, the direction of the spins, and total number of spins per day.
The price runs $US204,664 for each cabinet.
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a billion dollar project of the Real Madrid Football club in UAE

UAE is now going to play host to a billion dollar project of the Real Madrid Football club. Currently in talks with the Emirate of Ras-Al-Khaimah, the Real Madrid Club folks are looking to create another artificial island resort in the Gulf Coast, which will which include a marina, 10,000-seat capacity sports arena, luxurious hotel, a amusement park, villas and also a club museum. Of course, it is now at the stage of being approved and construction is to begin on a fully fledged scale, 2015 January is when this mega-project is stated to be complete and open its doors for the public to use.

From what is being estimated, there will be approximately 1 million visitors on the Real Madrid Island Resort, per year, when it opens for operations by 2015. Perhaps this is the reason, why the investment of $1 billion has been approved for this project alone.
One ought to be profoundly surprised, when taking into account that there will be 4.6 million square foot of space to be used, which will house all the facilities mentioned before. The construction theme of the project is known to be ultra-modern and innovative, much like the Khalifa Tower and Burj Al Arab Hotel, but will be created with a similar framework, much like the Palm Island in Jumeriah, Abu Dhabi. A marina, luxury villas and hotels, large stadium, amusement parks, and other sports arena, will all come under one roof, and provide a holiday platform paralleled by only the most luxurious projects in the world.
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One57 Penthouse in Manhattan, New York

The most expensive home listing ever in Manhattan — a $110 million glass-walled penthouse overlooking Central Park on top of what will soon be New York’s tallest luxury condo. The six-bedroom penthouse covers 10,923 square feet at One57 Tower, currently under construction on West 57th Street near Carnegie Hall. It has a 57-foot-wide, double-height “grand salon” facing Central Park. The penthouse at One57 is on the top two floors of the 90-story Christian de Portzamparc-designed tower that will include 95 condos above a Park Hyatt hotel. 

Residential amenities will include a 24-hour doorman and concierge, screening and performance space, on-site parking, triple-height indoor swimming pool and custom Jacuzzi, library, catering kitchen, function room, arts and crafts atelier room, private fitness center, yoga studio and pet wash room. The One57 tower, which opens in 2013, will rise to more than 1,004 feet.

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The ‘Cypher’s Little Brother’ watch

The ‘Cypher’s Little Brother’ watch is sleek yet sly as it requires some knowledge to comprehend this intricate time piece. Unlike most watches with a big and little hand, the Cypher’s Little Brother watch concept uses its bold and mechanical-like designs to reveal the hours and minutes.
It’s a secret if you can’t read it. The hour hand is the big semi-circle and the one end in clockwise direction indicates the hour. The minute hand is the narrower bar but sometimes it’s masked by the hour hand; in that case, just add 30 minutes to the free end of the minute bar. The tiny triangles and dials surrounding the face can help.

Cypher’s Little Brother watch concept is a rendition from an initial watch called Cypher (hence, the name). Designed by Samuel Jerichow from Germany, this watch is made almost completely from matte black steel. There’s a colorful ring that lights up to give the sleek and dark watch some emphasis.
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Pozzi-Ginori bathroom designs

Designers Antonio Citterio and Sergio Brioschi have produced a collection of sleek, modern furniture under commission from luxury ceramics company, Pozzi-Ginori. The pieces achieve the elegance of modern aesthetics while avoiding the clinical, sterile effect that too many sharp angles and straight lines sometimes produce. This is accomplished through the designers’ use of weight and material. For example, the bathtubs are set in large, almost square slabs of marble. This shape gives them a comfortable sense of sturdiness while maintaining clean, simple lines; Citterio and Brioschi’s use of marble provides a welcome human texture to an otherwise angular motif.

In many ways, Citterio and Brioschi’s work is reminiscent of older aesthetics; African and colonial Spanish designs seem to influence their work. The Citterio and Brioschi collection is a refreshing departure from the almost dystopian excesses of certain modernist sensibilities.

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The W Paris

 The latest outpost of W Hotels, the long-awaited W Paris, has thrown open its doors in the French capital as Paris Fashion Week gets underway.
The W Paris offers 91 guest rooms going from €340 per night and overlooking the grandiose Opéra Garnier — Paris’s distinctly more traditional landmark opera house.
The interior of the building has clearly been designed to put a contemporary touch on the hotel’s historic buildings, with a sweeping, wrought-iron lined staircase, chandeliers in the bedrooms and antique-inspired furniture that has been brought up-to-date with new covers and designs.

Inside Arola, the hotel’s signature restaurant overseen by Spanish Michelin-starred chef Sergi Arola, Spanish specialities will be served in a room seemingly inspired by a traditional dining room, albeit with some contemporary touches of scarlet.
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Alegna Wooden Bathtubs

Add a touch of natural elegance to your washroom with Alegna Wooden Bathtubs. Thanks to the company's experience building yachts, the tubs feature smooth, seamless, organic lines that are well protected thanks to a highly water-resistant varnish that coats the surface, guaranteeing that they'll provide optimal service for years to come. A number of designs and wood choices are available, and if those suit you, they'll custom build a special tub out of basically any wood you choose.
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Azerbaijan is planning to build the world’s tallest building

Azerbaijan is planning to build the world’s tallest building – taller than both the Burj Khalifa and the upcoming Kingdom Tower to be built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Azerbaijan Tower, which is set to break ground in 2015, will  rise more than a kilometer in height, or 3,444 feet, upon its completion in 2018 or 2019,
The Azerbaijan Tower is being built on a series of artificial islands, called the Khazar Islands, constructed in the Caspian Sea off Garadag, southwest of Baku.

The tower is the centerpiece for a massive, $100 billion mixed-use master plan with housing, schools, retail and a Formula 1 racetrack.
Developers plan to break ground on the tower in 2015, with construction is slated to finish by 2019. The entire Khazar Islands are expected to be finished by 2022.
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Constellation Quest Ferrari Phone by Vertu

Vertu has unveiled the Constellation Quest Ferrari, a luxury smartphone inspired by the Ferrari 458 Italia sports car.
The most striking feature of the product is the iconic Cavallino Rampante, intrinsically crafted from polished stainless steel and embedded in the titanium battery cover. The Ferrari logo is embossed in the leather on the front of the handset.
The luxury handset is meticulously crafted from the most luxurious of materials such as polished sapphire crystal, Ferrari calf leather and polished black ceramic.
The leather used in the creation of the product is the same handmade Italian calf leather Ferrari uses in the interior of its GT cars.
Each Constellation Quest Ferrari handset is built by just one craftsman who signs the handset as an assurance of Vertu’s commitment to quality.
The new analogue clock on Constellation Quest Ferrari is inspired by the distinctive rev-counter on Ferrari’s 458 Italia.
A new set of ringtones was obtained from live recordings of a Ferrari 458 Italia on a test circuit and is available exclusively to this handset.
By pressing the specially created Cavallino key, prominently featured on the front of the handset, customers are able to access unique Ferrari content and experiences.
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The Wiggle Side Chair

Meet the Wiggle Side Chair created by Frank Gehry in 1972. Frank Gehry is well known for his use of unusual materials. With his “Easy Edges” furniture series for Vitra, he succeeded in giving a new aesthetic dimension to cardboard, an unassuming everyday material. Although they look surprisingly simple, the “Easy Edges” pieces have been constructed with an architect’s skill and are exceedingly robust and stable. 

Materials: corrugated cardboard, edges made of hardboard, natural or lacquered. Costs $985.00

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The iDesk Concept

The Adam Benton iDesk Concept comes along and any electronic intellect you possessed becomes absolutely amateur. 
The iDesk is an insanely creative concept illustrated by the talented graphic designer, that turns a sleek office surface into a massive touchscreen tablet. Benton’s idea would allow you to access the majority of your everyday workspace items as virtual accessories and even sync any iOS device you own just by setting it on top of the table. You could upload different skins to change your decor daily, save all of your files internally, and even set out digital trays to amass documents from other iDesks. 
The features of the futuristic Adam Benton iDesk Concept are endless, and for Apple to eventually bring this genius idea to life would be their coolest consumer-pleasing move yet.
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