You’ve made up your mind on incorporating stained glass into your interior design, now consider the type/style of art. Do you already have your own idea in mind, or do you plan on choosing from an already decorated selection?

Whatever the case may be, remember that certain things have meanings to them. For example, flowers and plants. In this beautiful design, the artist depicted a glass version of the Eucalyptus tree. Did you know that the Eucalyptus is seen as a protecting and nurturing tree?

So you’ve begun your remodeling project and you’re doing research on the type of windows in the market. Did you know that you can custom design your windows, from art/stained glass to Disney prints for your children.

Consider this beautiful and classic colonnade design for your window finish. Not only does it allow more natural light to shine through, but also adds a warm myriad of colors to play off the walls. Step away from the common and leap into a world of color.

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Hey France, we’ve got one more for your sophisticated UFO archive. Dreamed up by artist Peter Coffin and crafted in conjunction with London-based Cinimod Studio, this 7-meter structure was built from aluminum and covered with 3,000 shockingly bright programmable LEDs. Furthermore, there’s an on board 6kW generator to provide power, and the overall UFO can be remotely controlled via SMS. There are even assertions that this thing flew along the coast of Sopot, Poland on July 4th (and even a video to “prove it,” posted after the jump), but we all know how dubious such proclamations can be.

[Via Hack N Mod]

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Look at that little guy. No, seriously, look at him. You know why he’s sad? He’s sad because you haven’t built him yet. He’s thinking: “Oh, sure, life is grand on this work bench, picking up nuts and bolts, but I want to explore the big wide open. I want to be built by that person, reading this post right now on Engadget, so we can be friends forever and ever.” Now, how can you resist a face like that? This particular DIY Wall-E’s creator wrote up a 50 step tutorial so you can get to work right this very moment bringing this robotic little fuzzball to life. Don’t delay. Video is after the break.

[Thanks, Joe]

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There’s no shame in admitting that shape-shifting creatures are a touch frightening, but we’ll go ahead and warn you — those spooked by petite bots will be utterly terrified by this. The SkinForm Project has arisen from the University of Technology Sydney, and while there aren’t any elaborate details available just yet, it’s described as an “intelligent pneumatic structure that transforms dynamically in response to socio-physical context.” Additionally, it seems to utilize a plethora of sensors and rely on a good bit of software programing in order to become the transforming architecture that it is. If all goes as planned, the initiative will be completed on June 12th, but you can take a look at a number of in-progress videos right down there in the read link below.

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Rest assured, we’ve seen a fair amount of totally sexy music makers in our day, but Peter Bennett’s BeatBearing has instantly become one of our favorites. The project is described as a “simple tangible user interface that uses ball bearings to program a sequencer,” and it enables the user to create a myriad melodies using sounds from the basic components of a drum kit. As with most musical things, this truly is better appreciated through video, so do yourself a favor and click on through to see it in action. And yes, we too are waiting in tense anticipation for this thing to go commercial.

[Via Technabob]

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