Taylor Swift is so charming that she can go viral on Instagram video by simply trying to get comfortable on an airport couch. The 24-year-old singer uploaded a video today in which she tries to lay on a couch with no success. Swift was getting ready to board a plan to Berlin when she decided to rest a little bit. She lays down on the couch and tries to rest her feet on a wall. Ultimately her multiple attempts fail as her feet keep slipping. Despite her failed resting state, more than 250,000 people have “Liked” her repeated effort. Swift posted the failed attempt with the caption: “About to fly to Berlin. Just relaxing on this comfortable couch at the airport…,” More Social articles from Business 2 Community: Feature, LEGO, Top 10, Toys Feature: Top 10 LEGO Mindstorms Creations You've seen the strangest LEGO creations, now check out the top ten LEGO Mindstorms creations. Whether it be a Pirates movie theater, pinball machine, or even a robotic toilet flusher, you'll find them here.
Continue reading to view them all. YouTube user "horseattack" has uploaded a video of a functional LEGO printer that he built, connected to an Apple Mac. Everything was reportedly built from scratch, "including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a 'wiring' board." The pen slides back and forth, building images and text one line at a time. It'd probably have trouble with the finer details, though maybe it could just use a finer pen. A LEGO master wanted to create something that could actually be used, so a pinball machine came to mind. This LEGO NXT-based creation features 9 touch sensors and four motors -- "two are used for the ball return and two for the spinners." If you're a LEGO minifig, you don't need frills like an HDTV projector or Blu-ray disc player. You need this handcrafted LEGO Mindstorms NXT movie theater, compete with pirate theme. First of all, this whole motorized Lego theater set up is legit. Skip to about 2:30 for a behind-the-scenes look at how it all works.
[Sources 1 | 2] Here's a first: a pancake-making robot created using "LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO bricks and two ketchup bottles." That's right, it can make pancakes of all shapes and sizes, including the famed Mickey head. You can pre-program what shape you'd like your pancakes to be before the Lego-bot starts a-cooking. Here's a first: a fully-functional digital clock made with LEGO Mindstorms. Powered by two separate LEGO Mindstorms bricks communicating through Bluetooth, "each number has five layers and each layer is controlled by the one above it so it starts from the bottom and builds the number from the ground up." Let's face it, not everyone is a master at Sudoku, but solving the puzzles just got a lot easier...if you've got one of these LEGO Mindstorms robots that is. Built by Tilted Twister, this creation is the world's first sudoku puzzle-solving LEGO robot. Basically, "it scans the sudoku puzzle using a light sensor, calculates the solution to the puzzle and then writes the digits."
Touchscreen vending machines are so yesterday, the latest trend is the 8-bit-looking LEGO Mindstorms model, or so we'd like to think. This miniature version may not dispense dozens of varieties, but it comes complete with a functional coin slot. For his third year project, a college student "built a robotic face (from Lego mindstorm) capable of expressing emotion, and software that allowed the robot to responded to the tone of the user voice." In the future many more devices around the home may have the ability to recognise and respond to emotion. For those looking for a hands-free toilet flushing solution, look no further than the RoboFlush. It uses a motor-equipped LEGO Mindstorms NXT Kit, touch sensor, and an ultrasonic sensor (flush detection) for the dirty work. What do you get when you combine LEGO Mindstorms NXT with a Samsung Galaxy S II and a custom program? The magnificent Rubik's Cube-solving CubeStormer II. Plus, "CubeStormer will be making a public appearance at ARM TechCon 2011 in California, later this month."
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Its overscaled pedestrian plaza was supposed to have been counterbalanced with a tower that never got built, and the architect’s signature striated concrete feels a little sinister on a building that houses a mental health facility. Saddest of all are the chain-link fences that now ring the plaza, giving the Brutalism haters even more ammunition to tear the thing down. Edward Durrell Stone’s squat, stubborn update of Venetian Gothic architecture was reviled, when it first opened in 1964, as an abandonment of all the modernist principles the architect propounded at his Museum of Modern Art around the corner. As the home of the campy Huntington Hartford Gallery (the no-abstraction-allowed collection was nothing special, while the leather-clad lounge upstairs, called “The Gauguin Room,” served pseudo-Polynesian pork and pineapple skewers), it seemed to revel in bad taste. Over time the so-called Lollipop Building became a surprisingly lovable work of architecture, but its supporters were too late – in 2005, after the city refused to grant landmark protection, the architect Brad Cloepfil tore off the façade and gutted the interiors to make way for its current tenants, the Museum of Arts and Design.
The resultant mishmash has pleased no one. The Emerald City is home to the greatest work of contemporary architecture in America: Rem Koolhaas’s crystalline Seattle Central Library. Unfortunately it is also home to this thing – a fifth-tier multi-colored hodgepodge by Frank Gehry, which opened in 2000 and utterly failed to do for Seattle what his Guggenheim did for Bilbao. Commissioned by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, it was initially a museum devoted to rock music; the bizarre glass strips resting on the roof are, strange to say, a metonym for guitar frets. Some of Gehry’s work, such as his own house in Los Angeles, looks better with age. This one is the opposite: a monstrous relic of the CD-ROM era. Smack in the center of the capital’s West End, looming over Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, Richard Seifert’s notorious tower outraged Londoners not only for its scale and its dreary, water-free fountains at street level, but because it remained empty for more than a decade after.
(In 1974, homeless demonstrators occupied the vacant skyscraper, but they were turfed out before long.) Now that central London has been transmuted into a hollowed-out non-dom tax shelter and money laundering facility, Centre Point is now fulfilling its destiny. It is being converted into apartments, though who knows if the international buyers will ever move in. When it opened in 1973, towering over the 14th and 15th arrondissements in the south of the capital, almost no one had a good word to say about the first – and only – skyscraper to rise in central Paris. Well, they hated the Eiffel Tower and the Pompidou too, at first, but the Tour Montparnasse has only got worse with age. From a distance it glowers obnoxiously over Paris’s sea of Haussmannian gray, while at street level, tethered to a neighborhood-blighting shopping center, it’s even worse. Its most deleterious effect was to kill off the possibility of any tall buildings in Paris for a generation: the capital essentially banned skyscrapers until last decade, though a new project by Jean Nouvel in the southeast is now underway.