Where most of us see a pile of rubbish, some brilliant people see raw materials for creating beautiful works of art. Here are some works created by recycling used tires.

Busan Beach, South Korea can get a little crowded on a hot day.

The Apple remote control is not made by Apple. It is a concept idea found over at Yanko Design which uses Apple shaped remote controls which have motion sensors them. Each Apple can be a slightly different colour and be programmed to each users desire. The motion part of the apple could be used in a way that when you twist the apple to the left the volume turns down or when you shake it the channel changes. The bowl that can be seen carrying the remote control Apples actual has 2 functions. First it keeps the apples in a safe place, but it also doubles as a charger for the apples.

Long gone will be the days where you are hunting around the cusions of your sofa looking for the missing remote.

More pictures after the jump.

In celebration of the 120th birthday of the Eiffel Tower, The Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel has decided to temporarily restructure the publicly accessible observation areas of the famous landmark.

Serero Architects have submitted a proposal to create a temporary horizontal extension of the third floor of the tower, which will not only double the square footage of the observation areas, but will provide a panoramic 360 degree view of Paris.

The proposal is to extend the top floor plate of the tower by grafting a high performance carbon Kevlar structure to it. The structure will be temporarily bolted to the slab without requiring any modification of the existing structure. Good idea or will Gustave Eiffel be rolling in his grave?

(Update: La Societe d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel has declared this proposal a hoax.  Read more by following Miss Yuki’s links in the comments section.)

1. Sky Tower, Auckland, New Zealand.

The Southern Hemisphere’s tallest building…and a glass floor elevator!! A good enough reason for anyone to look down in the elevator.

2. Falkirk Wheel, Scotland, UK

What do you do when you have canals with drastically different heights? You build a boat elevator of course!

3. CN Tower, Toronto, Canada

Until the Burj Dubai came along, the CN Tower was the world’s tallest freestanding structure. The elevator travels at an impressive 22 feet per second, and the entire view is unobstructed during the ride.

4. AquaDom Elevator, Berlin, Germamy

Hey, let’s put the elevator in an aquarium and make it a tourist attraction in its own right. Kind of looks like the engine room from Star Trek, doesn’t it?

5. IM Pei Louvre Elevator, Paris France

This elevator is within the pyramid entrance to the Louvre. While there’s nothing special about the ride itself, the overall presentation is pretty slick.

6. Bailong Sightseeing Elevator, Hunan Province, China

Probably the coolest view of any elevator. The rugged nature of the scenery makes you forget you’re on an elevator.

7. Eiffel Tower Second stage elevator, Paris, France

It looks and feels like you’re going straight up on a giant roller coaster. Just look away from the rust.

8. Rockefeller Center Glasstop Roof Elevator, New York, USA

The glass roof of the elevator let’s you truly appreciate the 70-story height of the building.

9. Burj Dubai Construction Elevator, Dubai, UAE

The building is nowhere completion but already it’s nearly twice the height of the Empire State Building. This must be one hell of an interesting ride for the construction workers building it.

10. Tapai 101 Elevator, Tapai, Taiwan

Supposedly the worlds fastest elevator. Watch how fast the floor numbers change.

11. Burj Al Arab Hotel Elevator, Dubai, UAE

Spectacular blue view all the way down. You wouldn’t expect anything else from a 7-star hotel.

As gadgets around the world continue to get more complex there will be a cry out for simple ideas to come back. One of these ideas will be the old fashioned circle type phone. Yankodesign now bring us the Circle Phone concept which has just 3 buttons and a rotary type dialling pad. I am baffled on how you actually hold this thing to your head, but simplicity is always good.

The stadium in the photos is the Lego version of the new soccer stadium in Munich designed by Herzog and DeMeuron.

Back in December, Gizmodo created a wishlist about the next Gen Nintendo DS. Phil Nolan, a 3D artist, liked what he saw there and got to work creating a 3D rendering of what a Nintendo DS 2 could look like. Taking ideas from the iPhone, PSP and Wii the DS 2 pictured above was created. As can be seen, the faces of the device are shiny and the screens are larger then the regular DS. If Nintendo took some advice from Phil they would have a killer looking machine.

Michael Griffith and the Savannah College of Art & Design came up with this concept to use construction sites for advertising Powerhouse Gym.

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This machine was created by a Japanese engineer. It creates optical illusions instantaneously.

A Japanese engineer developed a machine that creates 3D optical illusions in real-time. Put simply, an object rotates while different scans are synchronized, and the following outcome is more than meets the eye. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.