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This post is packed with TRON goodies including a music video, headphones, and a hotel room [Update: NSFW Playboy photoshoot]

December 10, 2010Images, Movies, Music, Technology, Video8-bit, BE@RBRICK, Daft Punk, figurines, headphones, hotel, HTML5, Ice Hotel, KUBRICK, light painting, London, Medicom Toy, Monster, music video, NSFW, nudity, Playboy, Playboy photoshoot, Playboy spread, projection, Queen Elizabeth Hall, RAH, Real Action Hero, Single, soundtrack, stop motion, Sweden, toys, Tron, Tron: Legacy, Tron: Legacy soundtrackScott Meisner

(1) Medicom Toy is celebrating the collaboration between Tron: Legacy and legendary electric duo Daft Punk by producing the masked musicians in Kubrick and RAH (Real Action Hero) form. They will release in late December as part of the Series 21 BE@RBRICK assortment ($4.99). The 400% BE@RBRICK ($199.99) and KUBRICK ($19.99) two-packs will release in mid-January. The RAH figures are expected to come out in April at $229.99 each. All the Daft Punk-inspired toys will feature the same outfits and helmets the duo wears in the cameo they make in the film.

Look after the break for so much more Tron content. Continue reading This post is packed with TRON goodies including a music video, headphones, and a hotel room [Update: NSFW Playboy photoshoot] →

Olympic landmark coming to London in 2012

April 6, 2010Design, Images2012 Olympics, London, Olympics, orbit, sculpture, UKScott Meisner

The ArcelorMittal Orbit, designed by artist Anish Kapoor, is “set to become UK’s largest sculpture.” The Orbit is being built as an attraction site just in time for the 2012 Olympics at the Olympic Park site in London.

[The sculpture] will consist of a continuous looping lattice of tubular steel. Standing at a gigantic 115m, it will be 22m taller than the Statue of Liberty in New York and offer unparalleled views of the entire 250 acres of the Olympic Park and London’s skyline from a special viewing platform. Visitors will be able to take a trip up the statuesque structure in a huge lift and will have the option of walking down the spiralling staircase.

Don’t you think this would make for one hell of a rollercoaster? Addtional images in the gallery below.

[Via Dezeen; Gizmodo]

Walk and create energy

November 2, 2009Technology, Videoenergy, England, environment, green, ground, London, Pavegen Systems, UK, walkScott Meisner

Pavegen Systems at interbuild exhibition. Flexible paving slabs that generte energy from people’s footsteps to power street lighting, wayfinding solutions, and other low energy applications.

Basically, these “paving slabs” can generate “as much as 2.1 watts of electricity per hour” simply by having people walk on them. This kind of tech is very impressive and surely stands out in the “be green” world we live in today. Pavegen Systems is currently testing it out in East London and they plan to have them installed more widely sometime in 2010.

[Via Engadget]

London’s Shard is beautiful

August 26, 2009Architecture, Images, Style, Technologybuilding, Design, London, The Shard, UKScott Meisner

“The Shard, a mixed-use tower at London Bridge in London, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.”

“Construction work has started on the 306 metre-high building, which will sit on an irregular-shaped site adjacent to London Bridge station as part of a new development called London Bridge Quarter. The design consists of several glass facets that incline inwards but do not meet at the top, and is inspired by the masts of ships that once anchored on the Thames. The 72-storey building contains offices, apartments, a hotel and spa, retail and restaurants and is topped by a 15-storey public viewing gallery.” The Shard is “due to be completed in 2012.”

Check out the gallery below for more images of this architectural marvel. It is very sci-fi-esque; it reminds me of a structure from the Halo series.

[Via Gizmodo; Dezeen]