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Building Better Transport Systems

Why do grown-ups take so long to figure things out?  Cars have polluted the atmosphere for so long we now have global warming.  Gas is running out and what do the grown ups plan to do?  Our train system is outdated.  Isn’t it time for a better mousetrap?  Who’s building it?

Courtesy of the writer of Future Tech we get to see how things may get better.  I love all these images and the book is on my Wish List.  This train system above is in development in Japan; not only would it go faster than trains today, but it would also generate excess clean energy via wind and solar panels.
If that looks good, I think this looks even better.  The SkyTran system is a maglev system for individual two-person transport.

London, Belgium, and The Netherlands are soon getting a similar system called ULTra which will be individual electric cars running on either elevated or ground level routes.  It looks just as cool without the monorail.

But what we really need is a sky taxi, or the plane that we can drive on the road.

Wow.  The exiting thing is that these are all in development.  Hopefully it won’t take fifteen years like most things seem to.  (thanks! Dark Roasted Blend)
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Bowl Of Noses

Not Your Next Bike


Think you’ve mastered scooters, skateboards, and roller blades, eh?  Try this one on for size. (via Wired).

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These Are Those Things

Rope Giant



I don’t know where this guy lives but I wish he’d come over to play. (tipped by Offbeatearth)

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Bowl Of Noses

Glueless Twin Personality Papercraft


The Rogues are a new design of papercraft that camouflage their true personality.  Click on the bottom left of the images on the site and watch them transform.  I can’t wait to build them.  Free! (tip BoingBoing)

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Bowl Of Noses

Recommended Viewing #1: My Beautiful Girl Mari


Lee Seong-kang’s MY BEAUTIFUL GIRL MARI (2002) was one of our great film discoveries this year.  The animation is beautiful and inventive.  It’s the story of a young boy who seems to have everyone around him always leaving him.  He seems to find a solution by entering a dream world, where he meets Mari.  Seeing it’s set during his summer vacation there’s no better time to watch it than right now.  We’d say appropriate for age 7+.

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The Next Good Idea

Wanted: New Database

I have a child.  I am always looking for new films to explore with him.  It’s hard to find truly age appropriate films.  I have a pretty good handle on the classics, but we like to explore too (Check out our blog Bowl Of Noses).

How sweet it would be to have a database that sorts all of the films by the age of the protagonists?  Does it exist?  Will you build it for us?
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A Cardboard Hope: (Sweded) Star Wars

Michel Gondry has changed culture many times over.  His Lego video may be the greatest video ever.  And his Rubik’s Cube series are among the YouTube Hall of Fame.  I look forward to the day when “Sweded” films take over from the corporate.  Homemade always tastes better.  This Star Wars trumps any thing Lucas did after the first three (and that is the TRUE first three, not the alternately titled first three).  And the soundtrack ranks with John Williams’ best work.