Photo credit: Gerhard Bliedung | ETH Zurich
Karen Antorveza Paez finished her doctorate at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich after years spent turning a known bacterial process into finished architectural pieces. Certain living bacteria called Sporosarcina pasteurii can lock loose grains of sand together by growing microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate between them, the same mineral that forms limestone and seashells.
Amazon placed a spherical device known as Echo Time with a 3.2-inch circular touchscreen on the nightstand and left the camera out entirely. The form sits low and rounded, finished in Graphite, Glacier White, or Coral Pink, with a woven mesh covering most of the body.
AMC Theatres just revealed its next round of sandworm popcorn buckets for Dune: Part Three, and the designs pick up right where the last one left off. One version features two sandworm mouths rising from a sandy lid so two people can reach in at once. Another extends a single longer worm higher above the container and adds a small working thumper that moves up and down while the popcorn disappears. Both come filled with a large serving and will sit on counters at AMC locations across the United States plus Odeon theaters in Europe.
Aston Martin revealed the Valhalla Spider as the open-top version of its mid-engined hybrid hypercar, capable of the same 217 mph top speed with the roof removed that the coupe achieves with the roof fixed in place. That figure makes it the fastest open-cockpit car the company has ever built, and the engineering team preserved nearly all of the coupe’s structural stiffness and aerodynamic balance while adding a removable roof system. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2027 after a public debut at the Concours at Wynn in Las Vegas.
