Dai - Haifei Egg House - Egg House

• Dai Haifeo couldn't afford to shell out for an apartment when he found a job in china's capital, beijing, so the 25 - year old built his own egg- shaped home for $1000.
• Egg-shaped abode is made of bamboo, wood and grass seed, and fits easily on a sidewalk. 
• A solar panel and rechargeable battery power the lights and an electric blanket.

 

Antartica

Antartica is the coldest and most desolate region on earth. The continent of Antartica is buried beneath a layer of ice and snow about 1 mile(1.6km) thick.

Facts

• Antartica is one and a half times the size of the united states.
• Antartica is so cold that nothing rots or decays there.
• Antartica is the driest continent.
• Antartica is the world's Windiest cotinent.The winds average 44 miles per hour(71 kph) and gust as high as 120 miles per hour(193 kph).
• The lowest temperature on earth, - 129 deg Fahrenheit(-89 deg C), was recorded at vostok station, antartica on july 21, 1983.
• As its thickest point, the ice over the Antartica is nearly 3 miles(4.8 km) deep ten times as high as the sears Towers in chicago,the tallest building in the United States.

World's Smallest Violin - Miniature Violin by Chen Lianzhi

Miniature Violin

• A violinist fro the south China city of Guangzhou has made a violin measuring fewer than two centimeters(0.7 inches).
• Chen Lianzhi used a 0.1 mm drill, maple wood as thin as a nail, and strings finer than a human hair to make the fiddly little fiddle.
• The violin has over 30 components and it can produce a sound, but it is very high - pitched because the strings are so short.

Penguins - Amazing Facts about Penguins

Penguins live in Antartica and along cold coastal areas of south America,New zealand,Australia and south Africa. Penguins spend most of their time in the icy waters of Antartica catching fish,squid, and krill. But they climb onto the land to breed and to raise their young.



Facts

• Emperor penguins journey up to 100 miles(160 km) across ice to their rookery.
• The male doesn't eat during the whole time he keeps the egg warm.He looses about 50 pounds(23kg) in weight.
• penguins cannot swim backward.
• penguins swim but don't get wet because they have two layers of thick, overlapping,oily feathers that keep out water.
• while under water, a penguin can hold its breath for up to six minutes.
• penguins are the very good swimmers and divers. 

China Teapot shaped Museum - World's largest Tea pot shaped building.

Tea pot shaped museum - Meitan china

• Tea pot shaped museum of Tea culture in Meitan, china.
• 240 - foot tall teapot building, which stands alongside a matching teacup could hold over 7563 gallons of tea- enough to fill 158,823 cups.
• The monument celebrates china's long history of tea drinking which, according to legend,dates back to 2737 BC, when tea leaves blew into Emperor Shen Nung's cup of hot water.

Dough figure Sculpting - China Folk Art - China's traditional Handicrafts

 

• Dough figure sculpting is on of the china's oldest tradtional handicrafts.
• The dough is made from flour, honey, lard and sugar .
• some figurines are so highly detailed, they include eyelashes,teeth and fingernails.
• These tiny sculptures, which are small enough to fit inside a walnut shell.

cake sculptures - Debbie Goard Cakes - Incredible Cakes

                    

Burger

DSLR Camera Cake

            

Hotdogs, popcorn,pretzel & apples

Minion

• These are the  few cake sculptures carved by Cake designer Debbie Goard of Sanfrancisco.

Guitar Boat

• The guitar boat was built especially for Josh’s 2008 music video ‘Make You Happy'.
• Josh Pyke made waves in sydney Harbour when he cruised through the water in Gaint Guitar.

MA Xiuxian - 102 year old Woman becomes Worlds Oldest Student

• Proving you are never too old to learn, a chinese Grandmother attended School for the first time at the age of 102. 
• Ma Xiuxian needed ao use a hearing aid and magnifying glass when she joined first - graders at elementary school in shandong province.
• The mother of nine never had a chance to go school and worked in a  cotton mill from the age of 13.

World's First playable Ice Piano

World's First playable Ice piano

• The world's first playable piano made entirely of ice was displayed at the snow sculpture Art expo in Harbin, North East China at January 10, 2008.
• Visitors did not need to be  musical maestros to tickle the icy ivories as it was programmed to automatically play a repertoire of 30 classic pieces.

World Smallest Woman - Jyoti Amge

• Indian teenager jyoti Amge is tinier than a toddler and weight just 12 pounds at 20 years.
• Jyoti Amge (born 16 December 1993), a resident of Nagpur, India, is the world's smallest living woman according to the Limca Book of Records and Guinness Book of Records.
• People in her hometown of Nagpur treat her like a mini celebrity and some even regard her as a Goddess.
• Jyoti suffers from a form of dwarfism and will never grow any taller,yet,despite her small stature,she has big ambitions.
• She has already released an album with bhangra/rap star Mika singh and dreams of becoming a Bollywood Star.

Baby Bot

• Researches at Tokyo University are using a robot baby, named Noby, to study child development.Noby has been programmed to behave like a nine- month old.
• He has 600 sensors across his body so he can feel touch, while cameras and microphones in his head allow him to see and hear.

NAT2 Transformable shoe - From sneakers to slip on

• NAT 2 is a 2 in 1 shoes able to transform from sneakers to shoes.
• Looking like a canvas shoe on the outside the shoe can be converted into a sandal just by unzipping the sole.
• you could use the shoe in Summer as well as winter.
• There are more than 20 different designs and the top of the shoes are interchanagable so you can mix and match the soles with different uppers.

Robot wedding - Robot Officiates Wedding - Japanese Robot Officiates Wedding

• Tomohiro shibata and his bride satoko Inoue tied the knot in Tokyo all the attention was on the officiant, as the ceremony was conducted by a robot named i -Fairy.
• The bride works for the company that makes the four-foot robot and her husband is a professor in robotics.

Neuschwanstein Castle - Fairy Tale castle

Neuschwanstein Castle

• One of the most famous castles in Europe, Neuschwanstein (New Swan Stone) was built by King Ludwig II and also served as the model for Cinderella's castle at Disneyworld. 
•  It is one of Germany's most renowned monuments, attracting over a million tourists every year. Often described as , the fairy tale castle“.

Human Touch Screen - on Palms

Human Touch screen

• As device like cellphones and MP3 players get smaller, their tiny touchscreens become increasingly difficult to use.
• A Joint project between carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft has come up with an unusual solution to their problem.
• "Skinput" makes use of a large surface that is always on hand.
• A mini projector attached to an armband turns your wrist into a screen or your hand into a calculator.
• The device has as sensor that recognizes which part of your body is being tapped and has been proved to be as accurate as a smartphone keypad.