Mayan Modernism: Designs for a huge museum of Mayan Culture, planned for completion in Guatemala City by 2017, are "inspired by the language of Mayan temple architecture," according to its architects. I wonder if the jungle overgrowth comes included. [Over,Under and Harry Gugger Studio]
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Nintendo is a company that is going through rough times these days, and we have heard that while the company intends to get out of this rut the old fashioned way – through hard work and some luck on the side, those of you waiting to receive news of a cheaper Wii U console will be disappointed. The thing is, word on the street has it that Nintendo could look into a health related solution to their current woes for the future, but at times, it might be best to patch up a leaking boat by looking into one’s past success and surviving on an extraordinary catalog of games. This is what might happen – Nintendo President Satoru Iwata (after getting a pay cut of course) did share that Nintendo could work on bringing their DS library to the Wii U via the Virtual Console.
Nintendo DS Games Headed To Wii U’s Virtual Console original content from Ubergizmo. 
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As you whiz down the highway from LA to Las Vegas in your Tesla Model S, your Bluetooth humming, your Google Glass flashing messages from VCs trying to get into your next round, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to reach down and grab a refreshing cup of ice-cold Kombucha? Well now you can 3D print your very own custom center console designed to hold your fermented teas, fair trade lip balms, or any number of other tchotchkes, bootstrap-style!
Sure Tesla is about to release a premium center console with fancy Corinthian leather cup Snugglerz™ and his and hers matching USB 3.0 ports, but what about now? What can you do now that will improve your ability to hold a fresh-squeezed Vegan Blackberry Juice and Farm-Raised Civet Coffee Coolata from the Creamery? A 3D-printed center console cup holder, ya big lug!
You can have your assistant download and print this sexy little Model S center console rig for you right now so he can assemble it and place it into your car, allowing for an amazing range of potential pluses for you and your friends as you scoot across town in your futuristic transport. You can keep all sorts of drinks in there, but don’t go crazy with the phablets. iPhones only, please.
So there you have it: improving the human condition one center console at a time. It’s almost enough to make you want to Selfie a smile.
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An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the Tesla Model S did not come equipped with front drinkholders. This has been corrected.
It might reduce the number of bathroom fixtures you need to scrub come cleaning day, but the built-in sink on this curvaceous Symbiosis bathtub from Desnahemisfera hopefully doesn’t drain into the tub to conserve water usage—because that would be disgusting.
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Even offices these days would want to take the green route, as that is the right thing to do considering the rather limited resources that our world offers. Hence, the whole idea of recycling paper has been mooted for years now, and the office is one place where recycling paper makes plenty of sense. Despite the world taking on a more digital stance, paper copies of documents happen to be used still, and it is said that approximately 40% of these documents happen to be thrown away after being read. Apart from that, the ink used to print such documents are not exactly cheap in the long run, either. A bunch of chemists from Jilin University in China might have a suitable solution to this dilemma – by developing a printer which relies on water rather than ink to print on, while the paper itself will end up blank (and obviously, good as new) again after 22 hours so that one can re-use it.
Printer Prints With Water Instead Of Ink original content from Ubergizmo. 
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There was a time when well-traveled luggage looked like the suitcase above: covered with travel stickers, trophies of every adventurous explorer. My father, who spent his youth traveling across Europe in the 60s and 70s kept his weary suitcase for a long time; as a child, I admired all those well-aged little pictures of remote hotels and places I’d never been to.
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Not all portable chargers are created equal – the LumiVolt Ultra Portable Charger from Thinkgeek might be rather affordable at just $19.99 a pop, but this does not mean that it is unable to get the job done with additional features thrown into the mix! I am referring to the ability of the LumiVolt Ultra Portable Charger doubling up as an impromptu flashlight just in case of an emergency. Measuring roughly the size of a whiteboard marker while tipping the scales at less than a deck of cards, the LumiVolt Ultra Portable Charger will play nice with just about any other device out there which charges using a micro USB port!
Capable of holding up to 2,000 mAh of juice, it should be more than enough to help you make that all important phone call should you actually run out of battery halfway throughout the day simply because you forgot to juice up the smartphone the night before. It basically works right out of the box there and then without missing a beat, and can be recharged itself by hooking it up to your computer via USB or simply plugging it directly into the wall.
[ LumiVolt Ultra Portable Charger has own flashlight just in case of emergencies copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Will Apple ever open up its mobile platform to allow the use of third-party keyboards? Y’know, customizable boards that have features like clever word-prediction algorithms and finger-swiping gestures? Despite CEO Tim Cook’s suggestion last May that …
SwiftKey is one of the best keyboard replacements you can get on Android, and now it’s bringing its note-taking talents to iOS with the launch of a new app called SwiftKey Note.
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