Lumilor Lets your paints with light amazing.

U.S. based company, Darkside Scientific, have developed a new interesting way to paint with light. Their patended and trademarked LumiLor is a technology that lets you add a glow in the dark effect to complex surfaces that lights up when a current is applied. This means there is no fade and it can be controlled to flash, strobe or produce patterns.

[Image Courteys of Darkside Scientific]

The Ohio based company has developed the electroluminescent coating over the past few years but unfortunately you can’t just buy it off the shelf as applying the paint requires some training in order to produce quality results. The colours are currently limitted to white and a luminescent blue-green but they’ve already been put to impressive uses.

Just check out the finish on this Tesla, which is normally a head-turner in its own right:

The tech is a complicated multi-layer coating that includes a conductive base, two-wire connections to electrical power, an insulating primer coat and the final lighting top coat – hence the lack of on the shelf products.

[Image Courteys of Darkside Scientific]

What began as a way of customising motorbikes could now see a lot more uses than originally expected. The company are now looking into everything from household applicances, car accessories and building materials.

“We have broken new ground, and it would be very dangerous for us as a company to compromise our (intellectual property) in any transaction,” said Darkside Scientific’s CEO Shawn Mastrian.

“We have told everyone we deal with that we will walk away from any deal that includes sharing our IP. That’s where our value is.”

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Amazingly 7 Shah Rukh Khan Controversies That Shocked Bollywood

The Baadshah of Bollywood is known for a lot of things, subtlety sure ain’t one of them.

While Salman Khan may currently be holding the title of Bollywood’s most controversial resident, it isn’t without stiff competition from arch rival, Shah Rukh Khan. Here’s a look at seven of the biggest controversies that SRK has raked up thus far in B-town:

The Wankhede Brawl

They may have hugged and made up (metaphorically) after KKR drove home with the cup, but that did little to sway the MCA officials’ decision to impose a five year ban on the Khan in the Wankhede Stadium given his drunken escapades.

The Salman Khan Saga

It may have happened six long years ago and while the people involved in the scuffle in question may have forgiven, if not forgotten; SRK and Salman’s long standing rivalry still unfailingly manages to make the headlines.

The Shirish Kunder Scuffle

Demonstrating yet again his volatile mood relationship with parties, SRK reportedly slapped close friend Farah Khan’s husband Shirish Kunder and shoved him onto a sofa after supposedly being provoked by him. Well, looks like while we were all busy hating on Joker, SRK decided to actually to do something about it.

The IPL Controversy

The King Khan managed to land with his foot in his mouth yet again after his innocent comment about allowing Pakistani cricketers to participate in the Indian Premier League irked the ire of a political party.

The Sourav Ganguly Mishap

His reasons for dropping veteran cricketer from his IPL team in the fourth edition of the tournament may have been purely logical, but even the most diehard SRK fan lost his love for the KKR team and responded to the snub against their favorite cricketer by boycotting the match held in their home ground at Eden Gardens. 

The Multiple Airport Detentions

The Baadshah also happens to hold the dubious record of having been twice at the US airport as a result of his surname, and has in the past even bluntly spoken up about the same: “Whenever I start feeling too arrogant, I always take a trip to America. The immigration guys kicked the star out of stardom."

The Abhijeet Bhattacharya Spat

After popular Bollywood singer publically alleged that SRK had done him out of his fair share of credit for Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om, the actor snarkily remarked, "Isn't it a coincidence that whoever doesn't want to work with me becomes famous?" 

Your Inner Child Will Love These Houses With Secret Passageways

Wine Cellar Stairway

While the rest of us live in boring regular houses, these people have awesome secret passageways, rooms, and stairways that make living in their home an adventure every day! Click through to check out 15 awesome houses with secret passageways you wish you lived in!

This normal looking kitchen sits atop the most gorgeous hidden wine cellar ever. Lift the door and you find a spiral staircase surrounded by space for all the wine you could ever need to store! Hide it with a rug and no one will ever know it is there!

Passage to Narnia

This child's wardrobe was converted into a secret passageway to a playroom, Narnia style. The playroom is even decorated to look like Narnia!

Private Sauna

Fancy a private soak in your own sauna? You can if you live in this house! It has a hidden sauna in the bathroom, accessible by a door that looks like just another wall.

Hidden Bathroom

What better way to make sure that you never have to wait for the bathroom than to hide it from everyone else? Who would ever think to look for it behind the bookcase?

Hidden Second Floor

Just when you thought that was all to the house and you had hit a dead end, there's more! This bookcase actually hides a hidden staircase to a whole other floor!

Kid's Room Passageway

The kid's rooms in this house are connected by a cute little secret passageway that only they can fit through. No adults allowed!

Best Disguised Hidden Cameras. ITs AMazing.

Coke Can

There are many reasons why someone might want to use a hidden camera to spy on someone else. And we're not making any judgements! Here are the best disguised cameras you can find anywhere for whatever your purpose.

As long as no one spell checks this can of Caco Cola Clossic, they'll never guess that it's really a hidden camera instead of a tasty beverage. And really, who would ever think to check a Coke can's spelling?

Shoe Camera

There are so many different versions of the shoe hidden video camera it's scary. You can even send your own shoes in to get them converted into spy shoes. Ladies, beware if you are wearing skirts in public!

Toothbrush Camera

This hidden camera is made to look exactly like an Oral B electric toothbrush. Though I'm not sure if I want to know what you would use it for!

 

Electric Outlet

By now nannies are pretty much expecting a hidden camera in a stuffed bear but they'll never think there is a camera in an electric outlet! They come in plug in versions like the one pictured or even ones that replace the entire wall unit and look exactly like a regular outlet.

Shaving Cream Can

Barbasol shaving cream cans can be converted into all sorts of cool things. They can either be used to store dinosaur embryos or hide a super secret spy cam!

Spy Pen

Play out your James Bond fantasies with this spy pen with built in hidden camera. Use it to spy on your coworkers and they'll never even have a clue! It takes 4G worth of high resolution video and only costs about $200.

9 Amazingly and Stunning University Building from Around World

There are some beautiful buildings around the world, designed and built by some of the best architects in the world, with many of the buildings being home to universities. So here we take a look at 9 of the best university buildings from around globe.

Yale University

[Image Courtesy of Chuck Choi]

Yale University was designed by Foster & Partners, the British architecture firm. They created a glass envelope that opens up into corridors filled with light and plenty of public spaces. The lecture halls are situated in drum shaped modules that have been designed on luminescent blue panels.

The Krishna P. Singh Centre for Nanotechnology

[Image Courtesy of Albert Vecerkaesto]

The Krishna P. Singh Centre for Nanotechnology is in Pennsylvania and was designed by Weiss/Manfredi. It is a striking building over three storeys with a front façade that is transparent, along with a planted roof. It was designed to isolate any noise from the subway line that is close by and is home to an efficient research hub.

The London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre

[Image Courtesy of Nigel Stead]

The building was designed on a very tight triangular site in London by O`Donnell & Tuomey Architects in London.

The Senzoku Gakuen College of Music

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The Senzoku Gakuen College of Music is located in Japan, eleven miles from Tokyo and was designed by K/O Design Studio. The building was designed in stainless steel panels and the rectilinear tower was decorated in tiles of many shades of red. It has the name of ‘Silver Mountain and Red Cliff’.

The New Schools University Centre

[Image Courtesy of Som and James Ewing]

Plenty of windows were featured in the design of the New Schools University Centre courtesy of SOM. They show off a staircase that broadens and narrows as it meets the flexible meeting spaces that were created for students in the institution in New York City. The centre is home to dormitories along with classrooms and computing labs.

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

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The building was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in Lebanon and is at the American University of Beirut. It features a dramatic cantilever of 69 feet which minimizes the footprint while at the same time making the most of the public courtyard along with plaza spaces below it.

The Library and Learning Centre

[Image Courtesy of Roland Halbe]

The Library and Learning Centre is located at the Vienns University of Economics and Business and is another superb design by Zaha Hadid Architects. It is made up of a structure that has a tilt of 35 degree include along with another space that cantilevers from the base and over the plaza below it. It was designed in fibre reinforced concrete and ribbon windows are the highlights as they swerve over the façade.

Lee Hall Expansion, Clemson University

[Image Courtesy of Scott Frances]

The Lee Hall expansion was built at the architecture school of Clemson University which is in South Carolina. It was designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partners and is a large glass and steel edifice that counters the traditional brick buildings of the campus.

Glasgow School of Art

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The Glasgow School of Art was designed by Steven Holl Architects from America and is a five storey structure that was built in addition to the original building built in 1909. It was constructed in translucent laminated glass and it is home to the art, design and architecture studios along with a large exhibition hall and other rooms

- See more at: http://interestingengineering.com/9-stunning-university-buildings-from-around-the-world/#sthash.AQzfYAe8.dpuf

Amazing thins in the World.

Australian Scientists close to commercializing printable Solar Panels.

team of solar power scientists in Australia known as the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium are closing in on finally commercialising a cheap and quick way of printing solar panels onto plastic. The team is made up of experts from the CSIRO, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and they have all been working on the project together for seven years.

[Image Courtesy of CSIRO]

CSIRO’s senior research scientist Dr Fiona Scholes said the technology was ready for the commercialisation stage and could be used to power “laptops to rooftops“. As the solar panels are printed onto plastic it means they have a broad range of uses; thin cases for your electronics will not only protect them but could also power them.

“iPad covers, laptop bags, skins of iPhone – not just for casing electronics but to collect some energy as well and power those electronics,” Dr Scholes said.

They can also be printed semi-transparent which means they can be applied to windows, perfect for giant skyscrapers. “It can be made to be semitransparent – we can use it for a tinted window scenario.”

[Image Courtesy of CSIRO]

The team modified a normal commercial printer so that it could print what they call ‘solar ink’ which is then printed onto thin sheets of plastic. The team originally produced a coin sized solar panel before rapidly upscaling the technology to an A3 sheet.

“It’s very cheap. The way in which it looks and works is quite different to conventional silicon rooftop solar,” she said. “We print them onto plastic in more or less the same way we print our plastic banknotes.”

The CSIRO has had the solar cells on its Clayton roof for the past 18 months, with decent results. The printed cells are 10 times less efficient than standard solar panels, which are made of silicon, but scientists hope to improve that. The technology is however said to be a lot cheaper than silicone photovoltaics.

“It would be wonderful if we could achieve a similar power delivery at significantly reduced cost. Silicon is falling in price, but think about how cheap plastic is. The ink is a negligible cost, so the raw materials are very cost effective.”

Another huge benefit is the ease of transport, meaning that the tech could reach difficult and less fortunate areas of the world pretty easily. According to ABC they have already received a lot of interest from companies interested in commercialising the product.

“We can’t manufacture them here, but we are at the point where they can be taken up by a manufacturer,” she told Guardian Australia.

Have you See the World's Biggest Swimming Pool? Here it is..

Welcome to the San Alfonso del Mar, a private resort in Algarrobo, Chile that is home to the world’s largest swimming pool, holding the Guinness World Record for largest swimming pool by area. It stretches just over a kilometre, 13m more to be precise, and covers 20 acres with a maximum depth of 35.1 m.

It contains 250 million litres of seawater supplied from the pacific ocean which is pumped by a computer-controlled suction and filtration system and treated before entering the pool.

The pool was developed by Crystal Lagoon’s owner Fernando Fischmann and was opened back in December 2006.  Estimates suggest that the pool cost somewhere between US$1.5 billion to US$2 billion total, with annual maintenance racking up a bill of almost US$4 million.

It dwarfs the world’s second biggest pool, the Orthlieb – nicknamed the Big Splash – in Morocco, which is a mere 135m long and 90m wide.

Fischmann said advanced engineering meant his company could build “an impressive artificial paradise” even in inhospitable areas.

“As long as we have access to unlimited seawater, we can make it work, and it causes no damage to the ocean.”

The sun warms up the water to 26 degrees celcius, 9 more than the adjoining sea.

Guests can lounge on inflatable beds or partake in watersports such as kayaking, jet-skiing, water-skiing and yachting. If none of that tickles your fancy then how about hanging out with your friends on a giant inflatable lilly pad, complete with trampoline and slide.

The water is crystal clear and you can nearly see the bottom even at the 35m deep-end.

The view at night is also something quite spectacular.