The Astor Suite at midtown Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel has four bedrooms, six bathrooms and a library. It rents for a whopping $165,000 a month. The current owner, who remains anonymous, bought the palace from Esprit founder Jurgen Friedisch for $30 million.
Las Vegas’s built environment is full of absurdities. The city’s development patterns showcase a tension between the natural (desert) and the built (the planned communities that litter the landscape).
They also serve as visual symbols of America’s 2008 housing bubble. Anticipating rapid growth, developments fail to connect to each other, confidently (or, perhaps thoughtlessly) leaving the future to fill the spaces between.
Below is a collection of satellite imagery via Google Maps that showcase some of these bizarre building patterns:
A laptop with a built in Kinect…. That actually sounds kind of cool.
The Daily had a chance to check out a pair of prototypes incorporating Kinect sensors over the last few days. The devices, which at first glance appear to be Asus netbooks running Windows 8, feature an array of small sensors stretching over the top of the screen where the webcam would normally be. At the bottom of the display is a set of what appear to be LEDs.
Every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube. That’s 24 hours every 24 seconds… or a decade every single day.
