The world’s tallest ice sculpture has been completed in Harbin, capital of northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. The 20th Harbin International Ice-Snow Sculpture Expo opened on the 20th December, where the theme was “Focus on Harbin, Savor France.”
The French Maid is a part of a larger sculpture, measuring 35m tall and 163m long. Along from admiring the colossal ice sculptures, visitors will also be able to play the first ever ice piano.
The picture below is not a Photoshoped picture of two cats. They are actually glowing in the dark.
These cats contain a chemical called red fluorescence protein (RFP). Korean scientists have recently cloned a few cats containing RFP. RFP is believed to be able to treat human genetic diseases.
The cloning scientists have manipulated the cats RFP levels, and by accident they noticed the cats glowed-in-the-dark. When exposed to ultraviolet beams, the cats glow.
The scientists are hoping that they can study genetic causes for humans on these cloned cats. Furthermore, they hope to see these cloned cats as the possibility to clone endangered cats such as tigers.
The whole glow-in-the-dark cat idea is overly strange. Not to mention, that humans are selfish in a way to tests on animals, even though they are cloned. How would it be to have a glow-in-the-dark human?
Sometimes you may have come across a movie or tv show, that surprises you in the funniest of ways. I’ve always thought that a lot of what we have now are inspired from something from the past. Design wise, I think we can be inspired by the past to create the future. The designs from the 50s-60s especially are “futuresque” in a sense where they can almost foresee the future. Take a look at the following video.
And notice in the second video, the narrator does actually mention “microwave.” Now did people take the idea from this video or was it just mere coincidence???
If you want to watch the full video, you can go to the following link: 1999 A.D.
Hey, at least we aren’t eating everything from tubes (yet)!
I often think that the abilities of the nose are very often taken for granted. Needless to say, our other senses such as touch and the ability to see are what makes us human. But the nose is such an important part of heightening the rest of the senses, so that with smelling we can perhaps determine a mood or enhance a sensation. Something can taste so delicious, but it’s perhaps our nose that enhances the taste. Have you even seen something in the movies or even on the internet, and you wished you could actually smell it? Or have you ever smelled something so strong that you could actually taste it?
Within the media industry, there has been several attempts to enhance entertainment by smell. One of the earliest recordings of using sense within media is in a theatre in Pennsylvania, USA. A rose scented oil pad was put by the electric fan during the Rose Bowl Game.The “Smell-O-Vision” was a machine created by Hans Laube that was featured in the movie Scent of Mystery, produced by Mike Todd, Jr. in the 1960s. As the movie progressed, the audience would experience smells from the movie. Each movie theatre seats were customized with this “Smell-O-Vision” machine, and it would puff out a scent in-sync with the movie. There has been other instances where going to a movie would include a scratch-and-sniff card, so that every time the movie gave a sign to scratch the card people could smell what the actors smells, well sort of.
Amusements parks such as the Universal Park, Florida has the Terminator and Shrek experience with smog and water spurting out at you. Unfortunately, spraying scents in a movie theatre might not be really easy in the long run. One main issue of using scents from the “Smell-O-Vision” was that once multiple scents would be sprayed in the room, the whole idea of smelling what the actors would smell at the time, would be defeated. The molecules of scents unfortunately stay. Now who ever will invent such a Smelltastic machine without having it being too overwhelming and then somehow clear the previous smell, now that idea will be revolutionary.
