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Under the direction of Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki and artist Masa Kimura, visitors built “The Breakfast Machine,” a Rube Goldberg-ish device that made an omelet, orange juice, coffee, and toast with jam. The project was part of Dutch Design Double, and its construction was documented over at Platform 21.

See more photos of the breakfast machine:

Here’s a video (in Dutch, with translation) of the breakfast machine in action:

“In a movie a breakfast-machine is usually used to introduce a nerd or a professor”

“It is a very traditional breakfast: we call it ‘strictly continental’ “

“There’s toast, jam made by my mother and coffee, but we still need to invent something to whisk the milk because I don’t like coffee without milk”

“…and egg, scrambled egg, which is very easy: all you need to do is drop it on a plate and stop the skin from falling with it. That was one of the first things we finished.”

“in a movie you can manipulate everything, but we wanted to build the real thing. Without any tricks, just to see if it could really work.”

“They invite us and the audience to help improve the machine: Things go wrong all the time, there are thousands of small problems to be solved, by solving one problem at a time we’ll get there.”

“Actually this isn’t very useful; you can just put an egg in a pan, fry it and you’re done. For us it’s about the process, the making of the machine and solving all those problems. Things keep falling or they break: That’s what this is about. If it delivers a perfect breakfast is, in the end, not the point.”

Holiday Inn unveils the world’s first Key Card Hotel – the first ever hotel made of key cards – 200,000 Holiday Inn key cards, to be specific. It weighs 4,000 pounds and took four months to construct.

The 400 sq. ft. Key Card Hotel was built by Cardstacker Bryan Berg, and includes a guest bedroom, bathroom and lobby, all fully equipped with life-sized furniture made out of Holiday Inn key cards.

The key card hotel will be open for viewing from Sept 17-21 at South Street Seaport in downtown Manhattan. During the five day event, Bryan Berg will build a freestanding 9-ft replica of New York’s Empire State Building in the lobby of the Key Card Hotel, using Holiday Inn branded playing cards.

If you stop by there, don’t forget to pick up your ‘virtual key card’ game piece – you might be the one with the ‘master key’ and win an all-expense paid trip to a Holiday Inn of their choice, anywhere in the world.

IHG is relaunching its Holiday Inn brand hotels globally, and the Sept 17 key card stackup is meant to mark the relaunch of 1200 Holiday Inn hotels.

Even if you can’t be there, all Holiday Inn guests can enter the the Key to Change promotion for a chance to win free nights at a newly relaunched Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Express.

Vision EfficientDynamics concept sports car from BMW combines superb driving performance with extremely low fuel consumption.

The power and performance are made possible by combining a fuel-efficient 3-cylinder turbodiesel with one electric motor on each axle. The special arrangement of the two motors and diesel engine allows all-wheel drive when driving in all-electric mode. The result is minimum power loss and a harmonious transmission of the power available under all conditions.

BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept car will make its world debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in September.

Every one can improve their health provided that they adhere to these 5 simple guidelines: Proper nutrition, be positive, sleep well, work out, and find purpose for your life. Follow these and you will become more productive, healthier, and just flat out more happy.

First and fore most, eliminate worry and fear and find joy. There are health professionals that suggest not listening to or watching the news. Reading the daily newspaper starts your day off on a negative path. The news brings tragedy after tragedy, bringing you down.

Focus on things of optimism and gratitude. Force yourself to think of things you can be thankful for is a great exercise every morning. Be thankful for your family, your life, for the ability to think and hear and see. The things that we take for granted every day. It doesn’t matter what you put in the blank. The important part is to develop a grateful heart.

The second guideline is a healthy diet. Eat more whole foods, less processed foods, and overcome your addictions to fast foods. That is hard to hear and maybe even harder to follow, but it is so vitally important to your overall health.

Aside from eating correctly you need to be careful not to overeat. Overeating causes us to age faster, produces more wrinkles, and greatly increases our chances of acquiring many diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. If you need to, just reduce the amount of food you consume.

At the same time increase the percentage of whole foods in your diet. Whole foods improve your health and improve your immune system. Eat 6-12 servings of fruits and vegetables each day and cut back on the amount of sugar and salt in your diet. You will notice a increase in your energy level and your overall health.

Thirdly, get plenty of shut eye. If you is not going to function efficiently. It will gradually slow down your metabolism and make it more difficult for you to lose excess weight. Also, lots of hormones are secreted in high levels during sleep allowing your body to repair its self/ As an example, if you are an athlete or a body builder, not getting enough sleep will increase the likelihood failure or injury.

Fourthly, exercise on a regular basis. The average person should strive to exercise daily, raising their heart rate a little it and keeping it there for about 20 minutes. If you cannot do it each day or two, at least do it every third day. Research have shown that after being slothful for 3 days the body’s metabolism will start to decrease.

Fifth, develop a purpose in your life. Even people who have experienced horrendous illness have been able to survive for a long, long time because they found their reason to live. They have become incredibly helpful individuals within their society and family and community spheres despite their illness.

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There you go with the 5 guidelines are quite basic and within the grasp of most people. Following these can lead to a longer, healthier and a more enjoyable life.

Cool futuristic window phone concept design by Seunghan Song accurately determines and illustrates present weather conditions.

To activate the hand writing mode, simply blow on the cell phone.