Since the day the world first lay its eyes on the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube in Beijing, people have been obsessed with creating the perfect stadium, to hold international sporting events. The trend is understandable though with television making these grand engineering and designing marvels appear as symbols of national pride, creativity and capability. The main stadium for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon is a multi-purpose delight that promises to provide us with some spectacular aerial shots as the opening and closing ceremony take place inside its expansive interior. Designed to ensure that 70,000 are comfortably seated and an additional 30,000 can easily take a stroll around it to enjoy the view, the flowing form of the stadium is in tandem with traditional Korean culture.

The design of the stadium is based on an uneven configuration with corporate and management facilities on its permanent western side, while the Eastern side sports a temporary seating arrangement that will give way to beautiful landscape once the games come to an end. The dynamic design, the integrated green parks around the main stadium, ample space that does away with congestion and the linking system to surrounding parks makes this design both practical and attractive. Of course, there still some time, lots of time, for the games to begin…

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Alex Astilean is a remarkable Olympic medalist. Not just winning a medal but he has also gone ahead to create one of the best human-powered mobile treadmills ever. Speedfit is a treadmill that uses human energy to transport oneself and also help them exercise. It is almost like a mass transit vehicle which would allow people to travel in an urban area by also getting some exercise.

However it is not a very attractive design and he sure could use some bling to catch the users’ attention. The design however has to be one of the best ideas as it combines exercising with mass transportation.

If only people decide to give up unhealthy habits, they can go ahead and use this amazing vehicle to not only reach their destination but also get some good exercise. He in fact wants to make it flashier so that it appears all cool and nice. In fact, the idea is to make people race other so that they work out more!

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