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Interesting Engineering

Vieria Concept

 
This conceptual vehicle offers one different point of view over the pollution problems in the big cities. It was designed by Gunwoong Kim and Suji Kim and is equipped with an air filter under the passenger capsule. So here is what we have: fully electric vehicle that ingests dusty and dirty air purifies it and releases clean and breathable air. Sounds good, right? Well, a single car would probably clean small and maybe insignificant amount of air, but imagine thousands of vehicles purifying what you breathe every day?

Peugeot Onyx

 
Peugeot has wheeled out a couple of concepts and a few exciting new models here at Paris, but this is the most impressive of them all. For a firm that's pottering around making frugal superminis and diesel hybrids, where on earth did the Onyx come from? This Peugeot supercar concept is tasked with stealing the limelight from the new McLaren debuting here at Paris.

THE DINE-IN THEATER AT DISNEY WORLD

The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater restaurant in Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park (one of the four theme parks that make up Disney World) serves American cuisine for lunch and dinner. Like a night at the old drive-ins, servers at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater restaurant bring food to vintage ’50s “convertible” tables as you watch ’50s and ’60s sci-fi and monster flicks on the big screen.

Electric Plane Wins Biggest Prize

 
Electric Plane Wins Biggest Prize in Aviation History. Nasa has awarded biggest prize in aviation history to an electric plane after its team designed a craft that flew 200miles in two hours. The $1.35million prize was handed to the crew behind the Taurus G4 plane designed by the Pipistrel-USA team. The Taurus G4 was in competition against two other craft as part of the CAFE Green Flight Challenge final, backed by Nasa, which aimed to make green air travel a realistic possibility.

Hekla Urban Quarter

The Hekla urban quarter, designed by Wingårdhs Arkitekter, won the award Årets Stockholmsbyggnad (Stockholm Building of the Year) in 2010, with the following motivation: “The 2010 Stockholm Building of the Year award goes to Ericsson’s new office building in Kista, where a “crack" in the facade provides afocal point for the entire volume and opens into a light well with unique sculptural qualities.”

The World’s Highest Man-Made Climbing Wall

The world’s highest man-made climbing wall is located in the Netherlands.Combining art and sport into one amazing piece of architecture, Excaliber is quite probably the tallest rock climbing wall in the world.  It stands at a towering 121 feet and resembles a streamer spiraling up into the air.  If you love to climb on man made features, be sure to schedule your trip to Netherlands.

Dubai Arch BridgE

 In the Summer of 2008, the Dubai government announced the earmark of $817 million on building the world’s largest arch bridge.The bridge will be 670 feet tall and one mile in length and is scheduled to be completed sometime in 2012.

SSC Ultimate Aero TT

America’s Shelby Supercars (SSC) is now officially the manufacturer of the ‘World’s Fastest Production Car’ thanks to its Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo supercar. The 1183hp (882kW) speedster set a new top speed record with an average Vmax of 255.83mph (411.76km/h), 3.11mph (5.01km/h) faster than the unofficial record set by the Bugatti Veyron. In order for the achievement to be official under the Guinness World Records’ guidelines, a vehicle testing for the top speed record must race down the course, turn around, and make a second pass in the opposite direction within one hour.

Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas

 
A refreshing addition to your entertainment options, the Fountains of Bellagio were destined to romance your senses. Take in a complimentary Las Vegas show of water, music and light thoughtfully interwoven to mesmerize its admirers. All for your amusement, the most ambitious, choreographically complex water feature ever conceived amazes against the beautiful backdrop of Las Vegas' lavender sky.

Pearl River Necklace

 
Dutch NL Architects’ newest bridge is part of their proposal to connect Hong Kong with the mainland of China. The bridge’s dynamic twisted form is a great resolution to the differencesin driving styles, namely that in Hong Kong, people drive on the left side of the road and in the mainland China, they drive on the right side.

The Transparent Canoe kayak

This canoe-kayak hybrid has a transparent polymer hull that offers paddlers an underwater vista of aquatic wildlife and waterscapes unavailable in conventional boats. Seating two people, the sturdy canoe hull is made of the same durable material found in the cockpit canopies of supersonic fighter jets.

World's Fastest Boat

  
Earthrace is a 78 foot alternative fuel powered wave-piercing trimaran; part of a project to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat and to do so using only renewable fuels.The boat's engines are powered completely by a biodiesel fuel source. This fuel is derived mainly from animal fat, soybeans, or other forms of biodiesel fuel.

River On Bridge

The Pont du Sart Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Centrumkanaal (channel in western Belgium) over the crossroads between N55 and N535 road near the town of Houdeng-Goegnies. This concrete building is 498 meters (1,600 ft) long and 46 meters (150 ft) wide. Pont du Sart Aqueduct weighs 65,000 tons and is supported by 28 concrete columns, three meters (10 ft) in diameter.

Ark Hotel In China

Ark Hotel of China is remarkable achievement of worldand the one of the interesting buildings in the world.The Ark Hotel has been designed by Russian firm Remistudio.This structure is so ecological and a wonderful of engineering.All details has been thought.For example;In the Ark Hotel,there is trees and greenhouses to get more fresh air and vegetables.Ark Hotel of China is the one example of in it's class.

Apple Store At Shanghai, China

The architects of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson turned the entrance of Apple Store from Shanghai in a spectacular glass cylinder which captivates the whole attention of the exterior space. The concept was simple, they wanted to express the slogan of Apple: “Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication".The stares are fixed to an interior small cylinder also from glass, so they appear to visitors like they're floating.

Kawai Crystal Grand Piano

The piano may be the best known and loved of all musical instruments. It also has the broadest range of any instrument, so music for all other instruments can be composed on it. It can be played solo, but most other instruments, including the voice, use the piano for accompaniment. Technically, the piano may also be the most complicated musical instrument with over 2,500 parts.

Guangzhou Canton Tower, China

New Guangzhou TV Tower in China, with a height of 618 meters, ranks as the highest tower in China and the highest TV Tower in the world. Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, also known as Canton Tower, is located near Chigang Pagoda in Haizhu District Guangzhou China. This tower was finished in October 2010. It offers a platform for the public to have a bird's view of Guangzhou City. People can get the observation floors on floor 107 and 108.

Koeniggsegg Agera R

Koenigsegg is determined to take the supremacy out of Bugatti’s hands. After being officially unveiled back in 2011, the Agera R is entering the 2013 model year as a more powerful sports car with lots of improvements. Koenigsegg is put in a power improvement of 25 HP that will make the car capable of hitting a top speed of 273 mph. We’ll just have to wait for Koenigsegg to prove it.