Modern bicycles are starting to resemble mini-space stations with all the newest gadgets you can mount on them – state-of-the-art speedometers, various sensors, Bluetooth speakers (especially made for bikes), dynamo kits, and so on. We have another one for you, but this one is a really useful little thing that can help you if you …
If there is one word that immediately presents itself when somebody mentions the city of Vienna, it must be elegant. Other adjectives spring to mind too – timeless, sophisticated, and graceful. However, Vienna is not entirely classical, historical, and somewhat stern in appearance. There is a wonderfully artsy and whimsical part of it called MuseumsQuartier …
All you designers and sketch artists out there, here’s something for you – Inkling – a digital sketch pen with a ballpoint tip that makes a digital capture of your artwork. This revolutionary pen is produced by Wacom, a Japan-based company which has been producing pen tablets, digital interface solutions, interactive pens and other interface …
Ultra-Ever Dry is a coating that completely repels almost any liquid. This superhydrophobic and oleophobic substance coats an object, in a way that it creates a barrier of air on the surface, using the proprietary nanotechnology. Ultra-Ever Dry rejects substances, such as water, refined oil, wet concrete and other liquids. Apart from that, it has …
The Camera Carrying System by Cotton Carrier is a new innovative product, which makes professional photographers’ work much easier. Your camera no longer has to hang around your neck, swinging, causing neck and shoulder pain. This product is in form of a vest, allowing the photographer’s hands to be free and the camera to have …
Velaa is a new private island resort in the Maldives, created by Radka and Jiří Šmejc, a Czech businessman. They put a lot of money and effort into this project, so this little paradise island is now turned into the most expensive resort in the country, with the price of $30,000 per night. Velaa resort …
If you are a woman, you know just how difficult it is to find the right gift for a man. The usual depressing responses you get when you ask them about their preferences are: “Oh, I don’t need / want anything”, or “I just don’t know.” And there are only so many times you can …
Water Bench is an outdoor piece of furniture which collects and stores rainwater, designed by MARS Architects, or more specifically, by Neville Mars, a lab team member and Shanghai-based urbanist architect. He was hired by the BMW Guggenheim Lab in order to participate in a project which would improve cities and urban environments. Since their …
Is there a more perfect, adrenaline fuelled location to spend a day or two of your winter holiday than the 170-year-old guest house, built into a cliff, up in the Swiss Alps? The Berggasthaus Aescher (“Berggasthaus” means “mountain guest house” in German) is situated below the Ebenalp Cliff which is the northernmost summit of the …
Czech news webiste Aktuálně.cz has published a set of comparative photos made by Czech photographer Jan Langer for his project „Faces of Century“ in an effort to poignantly illustrate the dramatic effects of aging. The photographs depict people in the prime of their youth (mainly in their 20s and 30s) and sets them off against …