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Architecture

Interesting demolition method

Kajima Corporation is demolishing two skyscrapers using a silent, clean and fast original method. In the video you’ll see how they replace the first floor columns with metal ones supported by an hydraulic system controlled by computer, they can make the whole building to go down one level and repeat the same process over and over:

This method is inspired by a traditional Japanese game called “daruma otoshi”:

Japan is a country where buildings are seen as something “temporary”, the average life-span of buildings-houses in Japan is around 20-30 years. In Great Britain I thing the average lifespan of houses goes up to 100 years. Buildings and houses appearing and disappearing in Japanese cities es very normal. At the beginning I was surprised how much my neighbourhood changed in a year or two, but now I think I’m used to. 30 years old buildings are considered REALLY old!

This post is inspired-copied from Pinktentacle.

Categories
Gadgets

D4 is pretty big

Willcom D4 is a UMPC (UltraMobilePC) about which we talked about a while ago because it is one of the most little devices in the world being able to run Windows Vista. It was released a while ago but I did not have the chance to use until last week, it IS little… but it is much more bigger than I thought. The keyboard is so big that is difficult to type using it like a PSP, and I have pretty big hands!

willcom gadget umpc

willcom gadget umpc

willcom gadget umpc

willcom gadget umpc

Categories
Various

Groceries vending machine

Verdura

This is not my picture, I’ve never seen something similar, I found it here.

Other vending machines: