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30 Years of the CN Tower

Happy Birthday CN Tower! Can you believe it has been thirty years already? You’re still our favorite free standing structure and the world’s tallest, not to mention our favorite antenna of all time. We love you CN Tower. Rock on. Sharing:

Xtreme concrete for Xtreme architX!

Yo! The radical dudes and dudettes down at Meld USA are utilizing 3D2 reinforcement to distribute multidirectional fibrous concrete reinforcement to the max. This creates a new construction material they call extremeconcrete all up in your grill. Word to your mother! Sharing:

Aeroscraft

Taking a cue from S.H.I.E.L.D, this flying fortress luxury hotel by the Worldwide Aeros Corporation will be complete in 2010. You may ask why, to which they clearly respond without hesitation or stutter that it is for “long-range travel for passengers who are more concerned with the journey than the...

In Soviet Russia, bathroom clean YOU!

Soviet Russia and New South Wales have more in common than you might initially suspect. Researchers at the University of New South Wales led by Professor Rose Amal and Professor Michael Brungs of the ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials are projecting that in the land of tomorrow, bathrooms will be self cleaning. Their time line indicates that in about year they can start practical industrial testing of their...

The Flight of the Moose

Steve Bond’s Spruce Moose flew for seven glorious seconds and thoroughly schooled all competition thus proving it to be the ultimate paper plane design.Young engineering students work out how to 1up each other with their designs looking for inspiration from jets, birds, et cetera. You don’t have to go through all that trouble though. Just follow this guide of sixteen easy...
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