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Narrow Buildings in Japan

eric200552026 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:58:23 +0000

Japan is a country which covers a small land but with a large population. So the land in Japan is extremely valuable. We can see many narrow and thin buildings in the streets of Japan, sometimes we are confused whether it’s a building or just a wall and we are worried about the safety of them. It’s really a miracle.

Ice Hotel in Hokkaido, Japan

eric200552026 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:55:49 +0000

An ice hotel opened in Hokkaido, Japan recently. The rooms, cups… are all made of ice. The hotel charges about $893USD per night. You also can enjoy delicious food and cocktail at the hotel, and even bath in an ice bathtub.

Rock Village in Iran

eric200552026 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:50:33 +0000

There is a village located in Iran named Kandovan, what makes this village so special is that it’s totally a rock village. Various shapes rocks and stones make up of the village, which has a more than 700-year long history. The holes between the rocks were equipped with windows. And there is a luxury 5 Star hotel in the village, it charges 200 yuan per night.

Ski Toilets in Japan

eric200552026 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:42:57 +0000

This is a toilet of a Japanese café called Georgia Max Coffee, it was designed maily for ski resorts in Japan. The decoration of the toilet gives a ski jumper’s view when the customers are sitting on the stool. The café wants to bring passion to its customers when they finished drinking.

Amazing Digital Cloud Skyscraper

eric200552026 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:39:43 +0000

“Cloud Computing” now is a hit word in IT industry. A building named Digital Cloud Skyscraper may also become a fact in the near future. Singapore designing company Design Art deigns this project as Singapore’s main exhibition center for the coming 2010 Expo. The theme of this designing is My Dream, Our Vision. The building was made of 3866 various transparent cubes of modular sizes.

Write With Hundreds of parts

eric200552026 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:37:32 +0000

Here is an amazing old man, Zhou Mingdi from Hunna Province, he can write with hundreds of parts on his body, such as hands, foot, mouth, and nose. What’s more amazing, he can write different characters with different parts. Now Zhou Mingdi is applying the Guinness World Record for his 8-pen simultaneously writing technique.

Largest Pig in the world

eric200552026 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:34:09 +0000

How heavy of the largest pig in the world? The honor was awarded to a 900 kg pig in Liaoning Province. The local agriculture museum is applying the Guinness World Record for the pig. This pig was dead on Feb.2004 when it was 5 yeas old, which cover a length of 2.5 meters and its tooth was 14.4 centimeters long.

Delicious Fruit Juice Packaging

eric200552026 — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:35:31 +0000

Are these a new type of fruits? No, they are fruit juice packages designed by Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa which has the look and feeling of they fruit juice they contained. Besides banana, strawberry and kiwi fruit, Naoto Fukasawa also designs “silken tofu skin” for a carton of soya milk.

10 Million Valued Wedding Dress

eric200552026 — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:34:59 +0000

How expensive could a wedding dress be? A wedding dress valued 9,990,000 RMB was showed at the Nanjing Wedding Culture Exhibition recently. The dress took 8Suzhou Embroidery masters 2 months to finish it, which contains 2009 peacock feathers. The wedding dress was glorious at the exhibition.

Military Themed Restaurant Opens in Lebanon

eric200552026 — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:27:32 +0000

“Buns and Guns?” What’s that? It’s a fast food restaurant opens in Beirut’s Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs, the chefs and waiter and waitress wear military helmets. The slogan of the restaurant is “ a sandwich can kill you”.