September 19, 2007 – 1:02 am | Written by KiwiPulse
Camping is the best outdoor recreation activity to get in touch with nature. Everyone sometimes need to get away from the civilization and simply enjoy the nature. But the forest is not the best suitable place for us to live. Dealing with the wildlife, climate, animals might be difficult for us to survive. Why not live like the Ewoks? The Ewoks are the fictional species that looks like a teddy-bear in the Star Wars movie. Their villages are built generally between trees and they use the forest floor to hunt. It might be difficult for you to build your own tree house. What about to own your Free Spirit Sphere? It’s a spherical house that you can suspend on the trees. You can visit the Free Spirit Spheres website to get more information about it.

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September 18, 2007 – 12:25 am | Written by KiwiPulse
If you get a chance to walk on the Overblaak Street in Rotterdam, Netherlands. You could see these 32 cube houses all attached to each other. This set of innovative houses was designed by an architect by the name of Piet Blom in 1984. Each cube house has three floors. The reception, the kitchen and the living room are on the first floor. The bedroom and bathroom are on the second floor. The third floor is used sometimes as a small garden. I’m still amazed how people can live in these tiny houses.

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September 11, 2007 – 7:40 am | Written by KiwiPulse
Each year, over 700 millions of people in the world share the same leisure activity, the tourism. Do you know that most of the public washrooms around the world are generally dirty due to this heavy traffic? Imagine the profits you can make by opening a High-tech public toilet! You can find some of those toilets in Philadelphia, they have installed a dozens self-cleaning public pay toilets in their heaviest pedestrian and tourist areas.
The term of toilet is also used to denote a comfort room, bathroom, restroom, public toilet. The toilet is a part of our history of human hygiene. Where we can make a critical link between order and disorder or good and bad environment. If a public toilet is dirty, you will probably quickly do your thing or walk away. Do you think you can use those toilets? (see pictures below) I go to toilet, you go to toilet, we go to toilet.

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September 6, 2007 – 6:06 pm | Written by KiwiPulse
Our ancient ancestors used to live in an artificial shelter 500,000 years ago. By the time homes were technologically advancing. Does that mean the human evolution depends on how we build homes? A building as a shelter represents a place of comfort and safety of the human habitat. Tell me if you can feel some comfort living in these crazy buildings below. Rock on!

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August 15, 2007 – 12:31 am | Written by KiwiPulse
The road signs have been present in our life. It’s almost the only thing that I’m required or forced to follow. The disregard of following signs may constitute a violation of the law. The first road signs were the milestone, used by the Romans. They erected stone columns throughout their empire, which is giving them the distance to Rome. That’s why we used to say, “Every road leads to Rome”. Today the road signs is used to instruct us on what we must or should do under a given set of circumstances. What happens when a road sign makes you think, if there is something wrong.

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