Gimme Shelter

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Gimme Shelter

The Mongolian steppe is no place to linger but thousands of people still lead nomadic lifestyles in this harsh environment. Today's nomads can travel farther and faster thanks to modern rails and road networks but still live in temporary tents or cave dwellings. Gimme Shelter is an improved cave dwelling taking advantage of the unique typology. It provides superior thermal protection while offering many modern amenities for traveling families.

The partially submerged building provides warmth while efficiently circulating cool air during the hot dry summers. There are several living units for many families with gardens and public spaces spread across 1,000 square meters. The interiors are studded with apertures to allow crosswinds. The layout is somewhat playful with a series of bridges connecting 4 levels. All of this is really happening sometime in 2010. This is nomadic living for the 21st century.

Designer: Rojkind Arquitectos

via: Arch Daily

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Notebook concepts for 2015

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Notebook concepts for 2015

Concept ideas for the notebook in 2015. The question is, what will the Apple notebook look like by then and will it be anything like any of the ones we see here?

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LG's BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild -- alongside a kid sibling

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LG's BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild -- alongside a kid sibling

The more we see of LG's latest Black Label handset -- the mysterious BL40 -- the more we want to touch it, play with it, talk on it, and put it (or, at least try to put it) in our pockets. Shots of the bizarre-yet-beautiful phone have appeared over on a German forum where we're told the interface is S-Class-based, the screen is 800 x 345, and the camera is 5 megapixels strong with Schneider Kreuznach optics -- all specs that fall in line with what we've heard so far -- and there's also apparently WiFi, an FM transmitter, and about 335MB of free onboard storage (easily rectified with a huge microSD card, of course). What has us even more intrigued, though, is a single picture in the bunch that shows the BL40 next to a smaller, stouter device with virtually identical industrial design. We have no idea what it is, but it looks like LG might be poised to roll out a whole series of phones in this new Black Label line -- and which ones are Chocolate-branded is anyone's guess at this point.

[Thanks, Anthony]

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LG's BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild -- alongside a kid sibling originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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