The Crystal Island is not just an unusual huge building, it is a building-city. How comes? Well if you take the fact that this building will host about 3000 hotel rooms, about 900 serviced apartments, a school, exhibition spaces, theaters, retail and catering businesses, two public viewing platforms, at 150 meters and 300 meters, it’s not just a building anymore. It’s small city. The exterior facade will use solar responsive panels which, along with wind turbines, will generate electricity for the huge tower. Natural ventilation will be provided thanks to numerous strategically placed large atriums.

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Dreamflyer was on display at the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas which delivers an extraordinary experience to flight simulation games. The unit works on simple pivot arrangement. When the user sits on the chair he/she would need to balance their weight across the longitudinal and latitudinal axis of the chassis and by the acts of balancing it generates motions. Sensors and the joystick captures the motions and sends the information to the computer loaded with simulation software. Can attach up to 3 flat screen monitors to have that virtual blast. Click below for video.

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Apple says macbook air is ultra thin, ultra portable and ultra unlike anything else. This is really good for someone who wants very portable computer with good looking and nice to use it. This apple mackbook air is only between 0.16 to 0.76 inch thin, from $1799 and weighing only 3.0 pounds, fullsized illuminated keyboard is perfect for staying productive on a plane or in a conference hall. The MacBook Air trackpad adopts many of the innovative multi-touch gestures from the Apple iPhone, so you can pinch, swipe or rotate by simply moving your fingers. With blazing-fast 802.11n2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technologies built in. Its allows you to access the DVD or CD drive. This is little pricey but It has an excellent design and excellent specifications. For more information and video click on continue reading.

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In Japan Sanyo’s “Solar Ark” has 5000 active solar panels generating 500,000 KWh of energy. The cool thing about this that a variety of shapes and letters can be displayed on the sides of this ark by 500 multi-colored lighting units that have been placed between various solar panels.

“the structure contains a solar museum with interactive exhibits as well as a solar lab and various meeting rooms for global environmental programs. The curved form is designed to take maximum benefit from as well as to graphically reflect the path of the sun and its energy.”

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The Magellan Triton 1500 is the worlds first handheld GPS color touch screen and the first handheld GPS compatible National Geographic Topo Maps. Features include a 2.7″ color display, SD slot, multimedia player for photos and MP3 files, Pre-loaded basemap, simple to use pointer and compass, and embedded speaker and microphone. The GPS handheld 1500 is extremely rugged and waterproof. Also on the Magellan 1500 a low battery consumption flashlight that is built in on top of the handheld. Perfect for the outdoors enthusiasts.