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Inspa World: An Aquarium for Humans
Posted in Architecture, Designer, Entertainment, Health, Travel on 14 May 2008

Inspa World

Want to enjoy spa, massages, saunas, facials, loofah rubs, swimming at a single place? Here you go! Inspa World is a five-story 60,000-square-foot funhouse located in the College Point neighborhood of Queens, N.Y that labels itself as a “spa and water park.” But this description falls too short to define it if you consider Rory real experience or mine virtual. Overlooking Long Island Sound near the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, it costs only $30 to get in.

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While check-in, each visitor is asked for a credit card in return of which a wristwatch-sized electronic bracelet is given (blue for men, pink for ladies). The watertight bracelet mechanically opens individual lockers for one’s shoes and clothes. Visitors then clad themselves in a spa uniform to go upstairs to the co-ed sauna and restaurant floors. The place offers separate changing rooms for the upstairs co-ed pools.

Inspa World

It features two large outdoor pools flooded with water jets and bubble jets aiming at massaging your every body part. You would be glad to know that besides sun bath, it offers you a pool with integrated hot tub. It also offers facility of typical steam rooms and saunas downstairs for men and women.

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There is also a possibility of taking a facial in a private booth or a massage with a view of the locality. The food court at sauna floor offers a salad bar, a sushi bar, hamburgers and French fries, Starbucks coffees and Haagen Dazs ice cream. Whilst the top floor of the Korean restaurant serves you with meat and noodle main courses, with countless other dishes for about $12. Developed and designed by architect and owner Steve Chon, almost $25 million was spent upon its construction and is hoping to install another 19 with next one in Dallas.

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Via NYT

Robot Lawn Mower Can Cut Human Into Pieces
Posted in Robot on 26 April 2008

Robot Lawn Mower Can Cut Human Into Pieces, CPSC, Darwin Award, Kyodo, LawnBott, Humans, Death, USCPSC, Robot

LawnBott, the $2,750 robot claims to be the honest automated lawn mower with a potential to hack 33,000 sq ft of grass on a single go. But lately it has revealed its true face as well.

It is capable to grill humans into pieces as well. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Kyodo America have lately thought of “reminding them instantly.” Actually, one of the possessors elevated the mower from the land while it was in motion and “endured slight gashes from the stirring cutting edge.” It is another set of stupid humans making efforts to win the Darwin Award.

For the creator, it may not be something big but the US CPSC and the company are decisive to recollect models LB2000, LB2100, LB3000, and LB3200 as “the hurtful blades persist to swivel when the mower is raised from the ground and the left out space on the side of lawn mower would evidently hurt the feet.” Instaed of doing any good to clients, it would surely invite people who would be anti-robot land mower.

Via | Gizmodo