Archive for June 2012

Meat Slicer Machine Using Laser, Incredible Inventions

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Meat Slicer Machine Using Laser, Incredible Inventions

This innovation is based machines cut steaks in the same weight and size, and through the use of lasers.

Can cut up to 100 slice of the meat in only one minute. The process begins of cutting maiden stages of uncut meat as they go to be scanned through the scanner and laser using the 3D technology. Once the scan is finished, it pass to the final stage which is the cutting stage , and it is cut to equal segments by changing the thickness of the slice.

It was developed by Nantsune, a large manufacturer of meat slicers. As well as minimizing errors in fixed-quantity slicing, this enables high-speed slicing at up to 6,000 slices per hour. "Because meat has an irregular shape, by determining its cross-section in advance, this machine can produce slices of the same weight, by varying the thickness." This slicer will be released in late June. It'll be priced at around US$160,000 (12,600,000 yen).

Luxury Hotel Underground

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Staying deeper underground: Designers unveil plans for $555m luxury hotel built into the side of a quarry

For most hotels the key selling point is a room with a view, particularly if it towers over a bustling cityscape or sprawling countryside. But designers behind this new luxury resort have gone in the completely opposite direction to attract customers - by creating a 'groundscraper' hotel built 16 floors beneath the earth's surface. The hugely ambitious underground hotel project will see a 19-storey, 380-room structure chiselled out of a giant quarry in Songjiang, near Shanghai. Designers have set aside a site about 30 miles from the city of Shanghai, in an abandoned quarry at the foot of Tianmashan Mountain. While towering skyscrapers boast of rooftop restaurants and penthouse luxury, the InterContinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland's bottom two floors will include an underwater restaurant, athletic complex for water sports and 10-metre deep aquarium. Surrounding the unique hotel will be a 428,000 square-metre theme park, complete with room for bungee jumping and rock climbing overlooking the descending 16 floors. Project developers Shimao Property Group worked with British engineering firm Atkins to design the imaginative hotel, which they hope to complete in late 2014 or early 2015. It is thought the vast project will cost at least $555 million, with nightly rooms starting at around $320.

stunning bouquets

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Beautiful flowers? Look a little closer and you'll see these stunning bouquets are actually drops of paint

At first glance, these incredible images look like still-life portraits of flowers.

But far from being drawn in the traditional way, they are created by photographing fast-moving droplets of paint as they fall through the air. Artist Jack Long, 53, spends months painstakingly planning and testing each work before capturing them with a high-speed camera. However, Jack is keen to keep his technique to himself and will not reveal exactly how his pieces are created. He uses water mixed with thickeners, pigments and dyes. The paint is suspended in air for a split second and he uses an electronic flash to get the moment just rightThe images contain a range of leaves, stems, petals and even the pots are made out of paint. Jack, who calls the work 'Vessels and Blooms', said he enjoys working with liquids because 'all the pictures are different.' He said: 'I love working with liquids because of their incredible versatility when creating high speed photography. It is as much chance as it is preparation and planning. They are all different. 'I like to use a lot of colours, variations and mixes of red, blue and yellow and green. The work takes a great amount of planning, set building and testing. 'This series was a culmination of months of planning and testing. Hundreds of captures are made in testing and then many more during the actual final capture stage. A very few stand out as being the best. 'All of my images are created in one single capture. One picture. I do not make composites from multiple images, unless otherwise noted. All of my fluid flowers are as captured. Photoshop is only used to 'clean up' the image and to enhance the image with basic tools.' Jack, from Wisconsin, America, added: 'What I like the most is that my work is so unique from other splash or liquid photography. The main goal is to create something truly original.'

World’s most expensive cheese

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World’s most expensive cheese

Pule Cheese, made from the milk of the domesticated Balkan Donkeys (descendents of the African donkey as opposed to the Asian donkey, which cannot be domesticated), has supplanted Moose Milk Cheese(ever thought about milking a moose…) as the most expensive cheese in the world. This herd of donkeys that live on the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve north of the Serbian capital of Belgrade numbers about one hundred. It takes 25 liters of milk from this ass to make 1 liter of the cheese and the milk costs $40 (Euro) which comes out to $1000 (Euro) per kilogram. In the US that comes out to $1350 (US) per kilo. A kilo equals 2.2 pounds making this cheese about $614 (US) per pound. According to the Nature Reserve, nothing special other than the milk contributes to the cost of the cheese.Now that’s a specialty cheese. It’s smoked which will probably interest The Man’s BFF, Gary who “brakes for smoked cheese”, but you must place an advance order to get this cheese. Since it hit the market at a recent European Tourism Trade Show, only a half kilogram has been ordered. Now that’s a surprise… Because of the lackluster interest in this cheese, the resourceful folks at the Reserve have decided to branch out and make cosmetic creams, soaps and even a type of liqueur from the milk. BTW, Moose milk cheese only costs about $300 (US) per pound – a bargain compared with Pule Cheese. Bit of trivia: In the regions of South Africa and Mesopotamia donkeys have been worshipped as deities. Serving Suggestions: What do you pair with donkey cheese??? How about Rocky Mountain Oysters? Pairings: Pair it with that fancy liqueur also made at the Reserve.

Mt Huashan

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On a wing and a prayer: The extraordinary hanging monasteries that cling to the sides of cliffs

When you're trying to connect with your god, it helps to find some peace and quiet, if you can. But that was, indeed, no such problem for the architects of these impossibly built monasteries. Constructed at dizzying heights on the sides of mountains, they ensured only the most devoted - and vertigo-free - followers would join them for prayer. Many were only accessible by steep and secret paths in order to provide the most seclusion as they sought uninterrupted spiritual awakening. By far the most precarious is a monastery that dangles seemingly in defiance of the laws of physics on the side of Mt Huashan in China. Located around 75 miles east from Xi'an City of Shaanxi Province, Mt Huashan is known as 'The number one precipitous mountain under Heaven'. It is one of the five sacred mountains in China. It is home to several influential Taoist temples where emperors of past dynasties made pilgrimages, making Mt Huashan the holy land of Taoism. It was created in 386AD during the reign of Emporer Theodosius I apparently after two priests discovered a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain. As with most of these great buildings, they aren't the easiest to access. In Greece, the Roussanou Monastery could only be accessed by baskets lifted by pulleys, until roads, steps and bridges were contructed in the 1920s. It is one of six active monasteries in the Meteora complex, one the largest and most important developments of its kind, only behind Mount Athos. The monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pinnacles near the Pinios. Another stunning piece of architecture, which also places a rock at the heart of its construction, is Sigiriya, or Lion's Rock, in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka. Built on a 'magma plug', the sacred city contains the ruins of the original temple, which dates back to 500AD. The legs and paws of a lion still remain either side of the entrance, but the head fell down years ago. It is one of the eight World Heritage Sites of Sri Lanka.

صـــــور : الـجـبـال الـمـقـدســة فـي الـصــيــن ... " أمرك عجيب يا صين "

هناك وعلى بعد حوالي 75 ميلاً إل الشرق من مدينة شيان في مقاطعة شنشي الصينية تقع سلسة من الجبال الصخرية تسمى الجبال المقدسة ويقع على كل رأس جبل كنيسة أو دير أو معبد حيث كانت هذه المقاطعة يسكنها الحكام والأغنياء ... ولكن الغريب في الأمر صعوبة ومشقة الوصول إلى تلك المعابد ... ما أدهشني في هذا الموضوع هو الفن المعماري في تلك المباني .. إليكم الصـــور

The Amazing Stilt Houses of Soneva Gili in the Maldives

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The Amazing Stilt Houses of Soneva Gili in the Maldives

Soneva Gili by Six Senses is located in one of the largest lagoons in the Maldives, with jetties threading across crystal clear water out to spacious over-sized villas, providing spectacular water views of the ocean from every room. Set on the private tropical island of Lankanfushi in the Male’ Atoll, it is one of 19 atolls that stretch over 800 kilometres through the Indian Ocean, and is one of the 1190 islands which make up the Maldives. The resort is just a 20-minute speedboat ride from the International Airport at Male’, the capital of the Republic of Maldives Like many of the luxury resorts in the Maldives, Soneva Gili features stunning stilt houses for accommodation. It’s an incredible feeling to wake up from a sleep on the ocean and the warm weather and white sand beaches make the Maldives a tropical paradise. Below you will find an incredible gallery of pictures of this beautiful resort along with additional information about what makes Soneva Gili special. Enjoy!