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Illuminated Crystals High Heel Shoe
As if a shoe design that has the woman walking on a bed of crystals wasn’t cool enough, designer Tamar Areshidze made it so these high heels light up too! Pretty fashionable stuff right there. Here’s a night shot of the crystals fully illuminated:
Details on how exactly this is made to light up are a bit sketchy but the crystal sculpture was inspired by the work of Marina Abramovic. The crystals are artificial, made from glass.
For those who believe in the healing powers of crystals, these shoes are more like “high heals” than high heels. Cool stuff, I’d wear them if they came in a comfortable running shoe style for men.
(via fashioning tech)
Steve Jobs Swarovski Crystal Covered iPhone 5 Case
Steve Jobs may not have lived long enough to see the iPhone 5 but that doesn’t mean he can’t be with your iPhone 5 in spirit- or maybe in Swarovski crystals. This limited edition Steve Jobs iPhone 5 case features the blinged out gaze of the former Apple visionary. It’s a special order with a 3-4 week lead time (from Japan where I’m guessing trademark law is a bit looser than here) and will run you a mere $299. Baaaaaa.
Negative radiation pressure in light could make some tractor beams real, we’re already sucked in
Developing a real, working tractor beam has regularly been an exercise in frustration: it often relies on brute force attempts to induce a magnetic link or an air pressure gap, either of which falls a bit short of science fiction-level elegance. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Mordechai Segev has a theory that would use the subtler (though not entirely movie-like) concept of negative radiation pressure in light to move objects. By using materials that have a negative refraction index, where the light photons and their overall wave shape move in opposite directions, Segev wants to create a sweet spot where negative radiation pressure exists and an object caught in the middle can be pushed around. His early approach would use extremely thin crystals stacked in layers to manipulate the refraction. As it's theorized, the technology won't be pulling in the Millennium Falcon anytime soon -- the millimeters-wide layer intervals dictate the size of what can be pulled. Nonetheless, even the surgery-level tractor beams that Segev hopes will ultimately stem from upcoming tests would bring us much closer to the future that we've always wanted.
Negative radiation pressure in light could make some tractor beams real, we're already sucked in originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 04:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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