Monday, 23 September 2013

World's First Invisible Tower

The current global battle to crank out record-breaking tall buildings the South Korean government has granted approval to start construction on the world's first "invisible" tower. It is well designed by United States based GDS Architects, the glass-encased Tower Infinity will top out at 450 meters  almost 1,476 feet and have the third highest observation deck in the world. This mega project is supported by Korea Land & Housing Corporation, a state-owned land and public housing developer. More importantly the invisibility illusion will be achieved with a high-tech LED facade system that uses a series of cameras that will send real-time images onto the building's reflective surface and it will be built just outside of Seoul near the Incheon International Airport.
The target completion date is not confirmed yet neither by developer nor GDS. The project will be primarily used for leisure activities, observation decks, a movie theater, roller coaster, water park and plentiful food and beverage outlets. It is expected to be in sixth on the list of the world's highest towers, behind Tokyo SkyTree, Guangzhou's CantonTower, Toronto's CN Tower, Moscow's Ostankino Tower and Shanghai's Oriental Pearl. Therefore; Tower Infinity's invisible face is basically just state of the art camouflage. Cameras will be placed at 3 different heights on 6 different sides of the building to capture real-time images of the surroundings; 3 other sections, each filled with 500 rows of LED screens, will project the individual digital images. In the course of digital processing, images will be scaled, rotated and merged to generate a seamless panoramic image that appears on the LED rows to produce the illusion of invisibility.

Saturday, 14 September 2013

Flying Fish Exocoetidae

Exocoetidae, usually called Flying Fish, is a family of fishes aptly named for their ability to emerge out of the water and fly for long distances with their outstretched pectoral fins. Asian countries, like China, Vietnam, and Japan commercially fished flying fish. including the Caribbean where it’s a coveted flimsiness. In many Japanese cuisine, the flying fish is used to make some sort of sushi. It is also a used in the diet of the Tao people of Taiwan. In Barbados, flying fish were heavily threatened by pollution and overfishing, and changing the occurrences of flying fish in the waters off of Barbados. This sparked a fishing controversy between Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago maneuverability. These fishes are known as four-winged flying fish.Flying fish are thought to have evolved this extraordinary gliding ability to get away predators, of which they have many. Their pursuers include mackerel, tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other larger fish. unluckily, this elusive maneuver is not enough to escape the biggest predator on earth humans.
Their streamlined torpedo shape assist them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like fins get them airborne. Once in the air, these fishes can glide over considerable distances. Their flights are naturally around 50 meters, but some fishes have been recorded to fly up to 200 meters or even more. Some species of flying fish have enlarged pelvic fins as well as enlarged pectoral fins, which let them to fly further than two winged gliders up to 400 meters, and have far greater To glide upward out of the water, a flying fish moves its tail up to 70 times per second. It then spreads its pectoral fins and tilts them to some extent upward to provide lift. At the end of a glide, it folds its pectoral fins to reenter the sea, or fall its tail into the water to push against the water to lift itself for another glide, possibly changing direction. The curved profile of the "wing" is comparable to the aerodynamic shape of a bird wing. The fish is recognized to take advantage of updrafts created by air currents to boost its time of flight.

Friday, 13 September 2013

Amazing Boardman Tree Farm, Orgeon, USA

The Boardman Tree Farm is situated in Morrow, county Oregon, along Interstate 84, 5 miles west of the I-82 junction. Boardman Tree Farm is owned by the GreenWood Tree Farm Fund and operated by a Portland-based tree farm management group GreenWood Resources, this 25,000 acres beautiful land comprises thousands of hybrid poplar trees, which are efficiently arranged in evenly spaced rows, and they are about the similar sizes, identical height and equal thickness. It’s such a fantastic sight that GreenWood Resources would conduct group tours for those visitors willing to invest some time and effort.

This Tree Farm is just one of the many holdings of GreenWood Resources in, South America, North America and China, but obviously one of the most accessible, being situated next to the interstate. The boardman farm is broken up into 40-acre and 70-acre plots with easy access of roads separating the plots from each other on all sides. Each plots comprises 600 trees per acre. For irrigation purpose, the farm employs nine 1,000 horsepower pumps that pull water from the Columbia River at a rate of up to 117,000 gallons per minute. In deed, this is the largest facility drip irrigation system in the country, with more than 9,000 miles of drip line. This whole system is controlled by computer so that each tree gets a very specific amount of water, allowing it to grow at an implausible rate while not wasting resources, like water or money. Moreover; use of chemical pesticides is limited, as integrated pest management processes are employed. Sawdust and the refuse from harvesting is chopped back into the soil, limiting the requirement for chemical fertilizers.

Therefore; type of tree they grow in the tree farm is called Pacific Albus, a trademarked name that loosely means Pacific whitewood. It’s a hybrid of 4 to 5 different poplars, cross strained for better yield, quicker growth, less use of irrigation water, straighter growth.The Boardman trees take 10 to 12 years to reach its maturity after which they are felled and sent to the mill where they are formed into boards and wood chips. The wood chips are mainly used for paper manufacturing, while tallers and older trees are harvested for lumber products. Any specific part of the trees that can’t be made into boards is turned into pulp or hog fuel. However; sawdust from the sanding mill is compressed into bricks for fireplaces and wood stoves.
Harvesting is contracted out to independent logging companies and on a normal day, 25 loads of saw logs and another 25 loads of chip logs from the saw log side, and probably 13 loads of chip logs from our thinning side, and up around 65 loads a day that will deliver to the mill, and each load averages about 35 to 40 net tons. The sawmill, is located roughly in the center of the tree farm, and process the produce of 2,000 acres of land each year. The processed lumber is sold to China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, Mexico, as the biggest off-shore buyers.

Unique Hanshin Expressway in Japan

This is almost well known by everyone, that current traffic needs high quality roads. Japanese are so inventive, quality conscion to find out different ways of making their life easier, even they’ve to their  highway passes through a building. Due to the exclusive and artistic shape of Hanshin highways,  Japan’s infrastructure can easily be compared with an amazing work of art. Moreover, despite the earthquake that caused severe damage to some sections of the Hanshin Expressway, the Japanese road infrastructure is a striking web that seems rather surreal.This building is located at Fukushima in Osaka City, Japan. When the owner of this building wanted to rebuild his building, the exit of Hanshin expressway had been planned to pass this block. The owner that did not want to sell his building and then negotiated with Hanshin Expressway Company and the result was this road-combined building. The construction was completed in 1992.

Amazing Hotel Rooms in Sweden

This is a hotel room in Sweden Kolarbyn which consists of 12 little forest huts situated at the beautiful lake Skärsjön. It’s called Sweden's most primitive hotel, the huts have no electricity and the dark evenings are lit by candles or traditional oil lamps. It’s absolutely perfect for all nature lover; or for anyone who lives almost entirely in the city in apartments, and don't have back yards and have very little experience with nature, but want to feel it at it's a best and don't want to do the camping thing, this is absolutely perfect without no doubt two thumbs up to the designers.