Man builds turbine-powered Batmobile, brags about having the only one

Canvas not big enough to hold this painting

© Juan Solano / CHOlon Photography

Architects: Longhi Architects / Luis Longhi

Location: Lima, Peru

Project Year: 2010

Project Area: 404 sqm

Photographs: Juan Solano / CHOlon Photography

   

Infinite rolling dunes from the desert to the East and rocky Pacific Ocean cliffs used by fishermen to the West converge on the site of Casa Q, creating a unique natural environment. Casa Q is the first residence built in one of the areas not yet occupied at the Beach Club Misterio, located 117 kilometers south of Lima, Peru.

Get More Out Of Your Toothpaste Tube

Here is another intriguing Toothpaste Packaging design that makes total sense. SavePaste has a three-point agenda: To eliminate the hard-to-squeeze dead space, minimizing toothpaste residue left inside the container; Reduce two packaging to one. It means we can reduce waste and manufacturing price plus encourage recycling. And finally, have a user-friendly design so that people easily adopt it. I think it’s a full score on all three fronts!

Designers: Sang Min Yu and Wong Sang Lee

Arranged things by messy ways

Aptly dubbed “Catalyst”, Jiyoung Seo’s shelf triggers user to feel, touch and react with the unit so as to build a closer relationship between people and furniture.

It is mainly made of silicon while still built with a wooden structure so that it can hang onto a wall. With its flexible silicon layer, the Catalyst shelf would hold anything you insert into it – no matter it is a pen, a book, a watch or jewelry.

narrowest house - just 60 inches wide

An artist's impression of the world's narrowest house which is set to be built in Warsaw, Poland (Poc: CEN)

New Salt Hotel Built in Bolivia

Visitors may want to take luxury with a grain of salt at this remote accommodation.

The hotel, seen above on July 14, is among a handful constructed solely of salt blocks on the white plains of the Salar de Uyuni in southwestern Bolivia.

The 4,085 square-mile (10,580 square-kilometer) region is the world's largest salt desert. The desert was once a lake 40,000 years ago, and it is now a hot spot for adventure tourism.

The blindingly white flats stretch as far as the eye can see, except for a few raised mounds of salt. Despite its barren appearance, the desert hosts cacti and rare hummingbirds, and three species of flamingos stop over each year to breed.

Until the recent tourist boom, the only inhabitants of the chilly, harsh region were salt miners, who still extract 25,000 tons of salt annually from the 10 billion tons available.