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A wild idea. My friends said that when they heard about my dreams of a floating house just as the one appeared in Pixar movie “Up”. But a team from National Geographic has built a real “Up” using 300 helium-filled weather balloons and managed to get the house 10,000 feet up into the air. National Geographic TV has made a record of this experiment and you’ll find it in “How Hard Can it Be” series. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Geografia”, by Japanese studio Drill Design, is a series of paper educational tools that aim to help kids learn better about geography topography and earth in an impressive but also interesting way. They are all made with special processing techniques and printing technology methods but feature different functions. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The well-know National Geographic Magazine has launched a portable 160GB HDD recently. Not that the famous magazine company has given up their publishing business, but Nat Geo aims to spread their content in a better and durable way. All the pieces of information Nat Geo has ever published since 1888 are included in the HDD, and that only takes up 60GB. The other 100GB is prepared for your daily use, and you can also add other pieces of information Nat Geo will publish in the future to the collection. Costing merely $199.95, the 160GB HDD is apparently the best gift we want to get for the Spring Festival. [Read the rest of this entry...]