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Next time you head over to Costa Rica you might want to stay in this hotel. Yes i said that right, this refurbished vintage 1965 Boeing 727 has been turned into a hotel for your relaxing needs.

At this height, you will enjoy scenic ocean and jungle views from the hard wood deck built atop the plane’s former right wing. The plane’s interior is Costa Rican teak paneling from the cockpit to the tail. Furnishings are hand-carved, teak furniture from Java, Indonesia. Our 727 home features two air conditioned bedrooms–one with two queen sized beds and the other with one queen sized bed, each with its own private bath—a flat screen TV, a kitchenette, dining area foyer; an ocean view terrace; a private entrance up a river rock, spiral staircase; and 360 degrees of surrounding gardens.

Written by Andrew Murphy - Discovered on Inspirez (View the full article here)

Kiyonori Kikutake fought a lifelong battle with the permanence of the built object. He started his research on impermanence with a project of an intimate character, the construction of the Sky House for his family in 1958. His research got progressively out of control, however, and ended with the creation of gigantic megastructures floating on the most extensive and generic surface on the Earth: the ocean. His tendency toward impermanence, material and spiritual lightness, and a social and physical interchangeability finally generated monstrous concrete accretions intended to provide the infrastructure for plug-in inhabitable cells. Kikutake’s designs for floating nomadic cities that were to be sunk to the ocean floor once no longer useful to humans, perhaps to serve as an artificial reef for marine life (Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo would have fun swimming through them), foresaw a romantic future for these massive cruise settlements, far away from Japan’s postatomic nightmares and the pressure generated by his native country’s explosive mix of land scarcity, overpopulation and brutal economic development.

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Amazing technology would allow for underground parks in NYC

If you’ve been to Manhattan in the past several years, you may have heard of the Highline in Chelsea. It’s a project that converted an abandoned above-ground railroad track into a park, and it has turned the formerly underdeveloped area around it into one of the trendiest new neighborhoods in the city; if you visit Manhattan, you have to check it out. Anyway, two architects want to build a park that will do for the Lower East Side what the Highline did for Chelsea, but with a twist: they want to build it underground!

If you’ve been to Manhattan ever, you’ll also know that space is at a premium, and there are few open spaces left to grow leafy green things or build a park. Dubbed the LowLine, the project would convert an old underground trolley car station, abandoned in 1948 and untouched since, into a 1.5 acre underground park. But how? This is where the science comes in: they’ve developed the technology to transmit sunlight underground. Using large parabolic mirrors and a fiber optic relay, sunlight from the surface would be shuttled to the park and then redisbursed, allegedly yielding enough light for photosynthesis. As shown in the artist’s renderings above, the park could house trees, grass, farmers markets, or art installations, all year round, rain or shine. The architects raised money on Kickstarter for a proof-of-concept exhibition, happening RIGHT NOW in the Essex Street Market in NYC, and they’re doing battle with the city and the transit authority that owns the underground depot for approval. Here’s to hoping the city bureaucrats see the light! *slaps knee*

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this looks beautiful, but how would it smell? hopefully not like a musty, damp basement.

Either way i’d still visit.

Source: scientificamerican.com

//”Hey - it was just behind me!”  - That’d last about 2 minutes at LAX.. smarterplanet: Hands-Free Robotic Luggage Is Here, Still Waiting For My Flying Car Hop is a suitcase that follows close behind the user, as he or she moves out of range. It’s named after bellhops, people who are hired — often by hotels — to carry guests’ luggage, according to Hop’s official website. Video after link (via Hop Is a Suitcase That Follows You Around Hands-Free)
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//”Hey - it was just behind me!”  - That’d last about 2 minutes at LAX..

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Hands-Free Robotic Luggage Is Here, Still Waiting For My Flying Car

Hop is a suitcase that follows close behind the user, as he or she moves out of range. It’s named after bellhops, people who are hired — often by hotels — to carry guests’ luggage, according to Hop’s official website.

Video after link

(via Hop Is a Suitcase That Follows You Around Hands-Free)

Source: Mashable

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