world gallery : March 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

THE FISH HOUSE

0 comments Posted by VAHIN NIAM at 3:22 PM

Guz Architects have created a tropical bungalow perfect for it’s location in Singapore called The Fish House. The modern home is designed to encourage natural ventilation, to do this the team of architects set out to create large open spaces, and glass walls that open up into functional outdoor activity areas.

Guz explained that their main goal was to create a home with seamless integration of the surrounding nature. This was accomplished through the pond-like pool and by creating great views of the water and vegetation.

THE FISH HOUSE Seen On www.coolpicturegallery.us

Wimmer RS’ Colorful Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Packs 601 Ponies

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The standard Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG sedan with its 457HP 6.2-liter naturally aspirated V8 lump is by no means a slow car, but when it comes to the tuning industry, the more ponies under the hood, the merrier. Bypassing the colorful body wrap, which is optional anyway, German tuning firm Wimmer RS starts by upgrading the C63 AMG’s eight-cylinder engine.

The massaging includes a sports camshaft, reworked cylinder heads, a new manifold and down pipe, high flow catalytic converters and a reconfigured ECU that help nudge output from 457HP and 600Nm to 601HP and 720Nm (531 lb-ft) of peak torque. Wimmer RS also removes the electronic speed limiter allowing the modified C63 AMG to reach a maximum velocity of 329 km/h (204.6 mph). The engine conversion by Wimmer RS costs €19,900 or about US$26,700.

The tune is complemented by a new set of 19-inch alloy wheels from BBS shod in Dunlop tires size 235/35-19 at the front axle and 265/35-19 at the rear along with a sports suspension priced at €3,600 or US$5,050.

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Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Wimmer RS Seen On www.coolpicturegallery.us

Evolution of Portable Gaming Consoles

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The origins of handheld gaming consoles came in the late 1970s and gained momentum in the industry from the 1980s through the early 1990s when the many celebrated names of the "video game console" world jumped onto the bandwagon deeming it a lucrative business. There were names like Nintendo, Sega, Atari and NeoGeo, offering a different spectrum of games to consumers. Although some did not last as long as others (Nintendo), they did provide countless amounts of joy in their time.

Nintendo Game Boy, 1989

Evolution of Portable Gaming Consoles Seen On www.coolpicturegallery.us

Atari Lynx, 1989

Game Boy Color, 1998

Game Boy Advance, 2001

Nokia N-Gage, 2003

Tapwave Zodiac, 2003

Nintendo DS, 2004

Sony PlayStation Portable, 2004

Gizmondo, 2005

Pandora, 2010

Nintendo 3DS, 2011

19 Creative Curtains for Your Bathtub

0 comments Posted by VAHIN NIAM at 4:10 AM

Bathtub curtains are quite important to the overall ambience of your bathroom. Anyone enters your bathroom, and what do they see first? It’s the shower curtain! Right in front of the face. That means, how good or bad your bathroom looks depends in a very large way on the shower curtain that you put up.

These are some very funny and interesting curtains for a bathtub. They are also very unusual. I would have hung in my bathroom some curtains of this collection.