You do remember playing in tree houses, don’t you? The excitement of clambering up the tree to reach your secret perch; the importance you reveled in because you had a secret hideout that few people were privy to; and the joy that came from the simple knowledge that you had a place to call your own.
Today, what can beat the pleasure playing war games in your tree house or simply sitting there listening to the call of the birds and watching the trees sway in the wind? Standing at that height you must have felt almost dizzy with the sense of power you seemed to have over all things under your feet – Lord & Master of all that you saw!
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The topic of the “house of the future” has become rather redundant, hasn’t it? For as long as I can remember, there have been countless versions of the “house of the future” and the ones that I saw as a kid are little different from the ones I see today, except that they’ve become even more dependent on technology than ever.
Now, the video here describes the “house of the future” in South Korea. Given that South Korea is the most wired country (as in, it uses a whole lot of broadband services) on the planet and it is replacing Silicon Valley as the Tech King, it makes somewhat sense that the house would be overwhelmingly tech savvy, and it is! Continue reading →
Fantastic Parking System
This is amazing! Click on the word Budapest below and see the video about this amazing parking system! It’s hard to believe it’s actually true! This is a real triumph of design, esthetics, engineering and space optimization.
I sure would like this better than driving around my neighborhood for 30 minutes looking for a parking spot 10 blocks away from my home!
And then coming back to your car w/2 new door dings in it!
BUDAPEST . Multiparker 730
If you are scratching your heads and asking yourself, “Vicky Ward & Mathew Doull who?” you are in the same predicament as most other people who’ve read this post. Well, Mathew Doull and Vicky Ward are hardly celebrities in their own right; Doull even less so than Ward who has some claim to fame as the contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine and author of the book “The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High States Games Inside Lehman Brothers.” Yup, that is one long name for a book. But, it’s a best seller, so what the heck!
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