I love architecture from the future, but this new apartment tower by Porsche Design—equipped with car elevators that allow owners to park their Bentleys and Bugattis right next to their living rooms—doesn’t come from the future. It’s just a gimmicky cylinder.
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Lots of people love Jenga. You know, that game with the wood blocks, where you have to remove blocks and not let the tower collapse. Well, now there is even more reason to love the game as there’s nowa Doctor Who inspired version called the Tumbling TARDIS Tower Game.
In the game, the wood pieces are all TARDIS’ and you play it the same way, except that its all timey-wimey and stuff. Don’t let the Doctor down and let his tower fall.
This will be a lot of fun for Doctor Who fans to play and it is only $29.99(USD) from Entertainment Earth. It will be available in January, but you can pre-order it now. Better yet, you can get in your TARDIS, transport into the future by a month, and pick one up now.
[via GeekAlerts]
When I was a kid I used to love creating domino courses and watching them all fall in fun ways. I would never have the patience to do it today. Especially not anything as elaborate as what these people set up. This 20-foot-tall tower sat at the end of an array of over 100,000 dominoes.
The structure was designed and built by the group Austrian Domino Art with some help from HLUW Yspertal students. It took five months of preparation and four days of setup – and it is all over in a few short minutes. They now hold the record for tallest domino structure.
Their domino tower itself consisted of 11,465 dominoes! It is super fun to watch the lead-up to the big fall, as they incorporated some really cool elements throughout their domino construction. Check it out:
[via Neatorama]
I love the newly city approved Beach & Howe Tower in Vancouver, Canada, a gorgeous 54-story apartment building designed by Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group. It gets extremely thin on its base to avoid a passing highway. From some angles it looks like it may fall to its side. Enjoy all the beautiful pictures.
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Yesterday, The Korea Times reported that Samsung was to close its “unprofitable” desktop PC business as “demand for conventional desktop PCs is going down,” according to an unnamed spokesperson. The weirdly written article also quoted another Samsung official saying “tablets, all-in-one and hybrid PCs are Samsung’s current focus,” thus suggesting the company seemed to be singling out desktop PC towers or boxes.
Even though it’s been a while since some of us last saw a Samsung desktop PC tower (the latest models we covered date back to 2006, though there have been more recent efforts), something didn’t smell right here so we reached out to Samsung directly. The response we got was that this rumor is all “groundless,” and the company also specifically said it’ll keep an open mind about its PC tower business. Here’s the full statement:
“The rumor that Samsung is withdrawing from the PC desktop business is groundless. Samsung will continue to offer diverse products according to market needs, including our recently announced ATIV One 5 Style, a stylish all-in-one PC. We will continue to open all possibilities in PC business including our PC Tower business, to satisfy consumer’s diverse lifestyle and needs.”
So in a nutshell: nothing to see here, move along. And technically speaking, the Chromebox kinda counts too, right?
Update: Samsung just informed us that it actually launched a couple of desktop PC towers, the 700T3A and 300T3A, in January this year, but only for the Korean B2C market. We got them pictured after the break.
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At Computex, Taiwan-based In Win has once again brought out its funky-looking desktop cases, but this time there’s a new star on the stage. Dubbed the Tou (meaning “transparent” in Mandarin Chinese), this ATX full tower features several 3mm-thick tempered glass panels that are screwed onto an aluminum structure. And since the coated glass is semi-transparent, you can just about see the desktop’s innards if you switch on the LEDs inside, which can be controlled via the touch panel above the two front USB 3.0 ports. When the internal lights are off, the desktop is pretty much just a mirror, but you’ll want to degrease your fingers before touching any part of it.
Sadly, at the moment the Tou is still at concept stage, so we couldn’t squeeze a price or date out of the reps. When the chassis does become available, you’ll know as soon as we do.
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We talk about lots of cool LEGO construction projects around here. One of the more interesting, and large LEGO projects was the gigantic 105 foot tall LEGO tower we covered about a year ago. That tower set a world record for the tallest LEGO construct ever built. Now, a group of architects and architecture students have set a new world record using another childhood building medium – the Lincoln Log.
This particular world record was set for creating the tallest Lincoln Log Tower ever constructed. The Lincoln log structure was modeled after the Nebraska State Capital building and was 12-feet, 4-inches-tall. The structure also used more pieces than any other Lincoln Log structure on record – 10,036 to be exact. The previous record holder stood 10-feet, 11-inches-tall and used only 2,995 Lincoln Logs.
The record-breaking tower was constructed by architectural students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and DLR Group architects. The entire construction project took the team a little over six hours to complete.
While it’s not nearly as tall as the giant LEGO structure, it’s still quite impressive as Lincoln Logs don’t have the structural locking mechanism that LEGO does, and they also weigh more.
[via Journal Star]
We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Charles, who’s capping off the year with a fine question about DIY PC chassis. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.
“I work in motion graphics and it’s upgrade time. I’m a DIY and Windows nut, so I’m looking to build my own tower, but the cases are all so horrible! I don’t need a plastic window, or something that looks like it was designed by aliens — just something that’s sharp, solid, good looking and has a respectable airflow. Is that too much to ask?”
Well, we trawled our brains (as well as a fair chunk of the internet) looking for some classy chassis, and this is what we found:
But what about you all? Let’s cap the year off with some stylish PC cases, peace and goodwill to everyone and a very happy New Year to you, the Engadgeteers.
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T-Mobile’s just received a hefty cash boost thanks to a tower-leasing agreement it’s entered into with Crown Castle. The deal leases 7,200 wireless towers to the infrastructure firm for a term of 28 years in exchange for $2.4 billion — that T-Mobile’s parent Deutsche Telekom will use to pay off debt. As part of the contract, Crown Castle can buy the towers outright when the deal ends in 2040 for a further $2.4 billion — and is planning to make money by adding another tenant to T-Mobile’s system, so depending on your carrier, you might find your coverage suddenly getting a lot better.
Continue reading T-Mobile leases 7,200 mobile towers to Crown Castle in a 28-year, $2.4 billion deal
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I don’t really drink a lot of water. In the rare occasion that I do drink water, I get a lot of sideways looks from my friends (yes, I’m feeling OK). But I’m so enamored with Sebastian Bergne’s Tower set—which includes cups, a filter and a caraffe—that I might have to start drinking that stuff on a regular basis. [MocoLoco] More »
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