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These Apartments Grow Their Own Air Conditioning

A newly completed 15-unit apartment building in Hamburg, Germany, is already turning heads. Although, with a facade covered in sun-tracking algae tanks, it’s hard not to stare.


Monster Machines: This Defence System Pew-Pews Missiles Out Of The Sky

The wall of hot lead thrown out by a Phalanx system may be effective against inbound artillery threats, but spewing hundreds of rounds to knock out a single bomb isn’t exactly efficient. Instead, one German defence contractor aims to simply fry them out of the sky.


Google Nexus 4 Sold Out In 15 Minutes In Germany

Yesterday, much to the chagrin of those expecting an email notification first, Google’s Nexus 4 handset went on sale around the world on the Google Play Store. It sold out in Australia within the hour, but the most rabid country for the new Nexus handset was Germany. Germans bought up stock of the Nexus so fast that the tech giant was flush out of stock within 15 minutes.


German Neo-Nazi Tweets Are The First Ever Censored By Twitter

In an effort to stay on the right side of German law, Twitter has blocked access within Germany to all tweets by the neo-Nazi group Besseres Hannover. This is the first time Twitter has censored speech to keep a government happy. But is it evil censorship or pragmatism?


Berlin Hyper-Lapse Is Almost More Stunning Than Visiting It In Person

If you’re getting bored of the traditional time-lapse tour of a major city, this hyper-lapse run through Berlin should reinvigorate your passion for virtual tourism. Its frantic crash zooms and warped panoramic shots are the video equivalent of HDRI photography. Except, you know, not horribly unappealing to the eye.


This Old Mill Hides A Beautiful Secret Stash Of Alcohol

This old mill in Eigeltingen, Germany isn’t just a relic of an ancient past, it’s actually a fully functional distillery. Seriously. You might not believe it but behind those doors hides a beautiful stash of alcohol


Are You Impressed By This Publicity Stunt?

A German heavy equipment manufacturer decided it would try to impress potential buyers — or maybe just people with a fetish for construction equipment — by using a series of massive cranes to lift each other.


Scientists Invent Grow-In-The-Dark Plants

The sun’s rays power virtually all vegetative growth on the face of the Earth, or at least they used to. A new discovery by a team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany will coerce plants into growing in total darkness.


Flexible Solar Panels Stack Cells On Sheets Printed Like OLEDs

Solar panels are finicky devices — they have to be specially mounted, angled and presented with the precisely correct environmental conditions to function at capacity. The complexities make it hard for the technology to gain mainstream appeal. A German startup hopes to change all that with flexible solar cells built using OLED production techniques.


New Heat-Drill Could Help Discover Life On Hoth

The frozen crust of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth largest moon, may be hiding subsurface water and maybe even life. But scientists will first have to bore through the tundra to see what lies beneath and they may rely on the IceMole to do the digging.


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