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yamaha yst001 home theater speakers with lights

Your home theater just got a whole lot sexier, thanks to a new speaker concept by Yamaha.  The Yamaha YST001 home theater speakers have built-in 25W lights on their back sides.  These lights are dimmable down to 20% brightness, allowing for some lovely mood lighting for you and your special guest.  While these are not yet slated for a release, crafty GearCravers can build their own with a little help from your local hardware store.  Should you take the hands-on approach to building your own, be careful not to penetrate your speaker’s tower– a single hole will ruin your audio reproduction.  If you’d rather wait, we hope these speakers will be on the market later this year.

Buy: $1,250




HighTech’s Ammonite concrete washbasin looks like a giant fossil ammonite, spiraling to nautilus nirvana.



Russian Alien car is looking for Ripley
Humans can’t seem to get enough of Aliens. The kind Ripley kills, not the grey ones that come at night and abduct you. Recently, we showed you some Aliens furniture.

Now some dude in Russia is taking the phenomenon mobile with this Alien car. The creator did a great job. It looks like it’s just bursting out of the grill. I love how the hands grip the headlights too. Nice touch. Next step, Ripley hunting for some payback.

I’d love to drive this thing at night, with the headlights off and just creep up on pedestrians. Halloween would be perfect.



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The first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. It will sit five meters below the waves of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by a vibrant coral reef and encased in clear acrylic offering diners 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views.

Created by MJ Murphy Ltd, a design consultancy based in New Zealand, Ithaa’s distinctive feature is the use of curved transparent acrylic walls and roof, similar to those used in aquarium attractions.




IF ANYONE WANA BE A PART OF OPSTUBE DO WRITE US AT ch3micalx@gmail.com




[1] Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
(The largest from 1998 to the present)
Kobe-Naruto Route, Japan 1,991 6,529   1998
Linked image [2] * Xihoumen Bridge Zhoushan Archipelago, China 1,650 5,414   see note above
[3] Great Belt Bridge (also known as the Storebælt Bridge; Danish: Storebæltsbroen) Halsskov-Sprogø, Denmark 1,624 5,328   1998
[4] Runyang Bridge Yangtze River, China 1,490 4,888   2005
[5] Humber Bridge
(The longest from 1981 until 1998)
Barton-upon-Humber - Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom 1,410 4,626   1981
[6] * Jiangyin Suspension Bridge Yangtze River, China 1,385 4,543   1999
[7] Tsing Ma Bridge
(the largest carrying road and rail traffic)
Tsing Yi-Ma Wan, Hong Kong, China 1,377 4,518   1997
[8] Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
(The largest from 1964 until 1981)
New York City (BrooklynStaten Island), USA 1,298 4,260   1964
[9] Golden Gate Bridge
(The largest from 1937 until 1964)
San Francisco-Marin County, CA, USA 1,280 4,200   1937
Linked photo [10] * Yangluo Bridge Yangtze River, China 1,280 4,200   2007
[11] Högakustenbron (High Coast Bridge) Ångermanälven river , Sweden 1,210 3,970   1997
[12] Mackinac Bridge Mackinaw City - St. Ignace, Michigan USA 1,158 3,800   1957
[13] Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan 1,118 3,609   1989
[14] * Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Second Bosporus Bridge) Istanbul, Turkey 1,090 3,576   1988
[15] * Bo?aziçi (First Bosporus Bridge) Istanbul, Turkey 1,074 3,524   1973
[16] George Washington Bridge
(The largest from 1931 until 1937)
Fort Lee, NJ - New York, NY, USA 1,067 3,500   1931
[17] Third Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan 1,030 3,379   1999
[18] Second Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan 1,020 3,346   1999
[19] * Ponte 25 de Abril (Tagus Bridge) Lisbon, Portugal 1,013 3,323   1966
[20] Forth Road Bridge Firth of Forth, Scotland, UK 1,006 3,300   1964
[21] Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan 990 3,248   1988
[22] Severn Bridge Bristol Channel, United Kingdom 988 3,240   1966
[23] * Yichang Bridge Yichang (Yangtze River), China 960 3,150   2001
[24] Shimotsui-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) Kojima-Sakaide Route, Japan 940 3,084   1988
Linked photo [25] * Xiling Bridge Yichang (Yangtze River), China 900 2,952   1996
[26] * Humen Pearl River Bridge Dongguan (Pearl River), Guangdong province, China 888 2,913   1997
[27] Ohnaruto Bridge Kobe-Naruto Route, Japan 876 2,874   1985
[28] Tacoma Narrows Bridge (westbound) Tacoma, WA, USA 853 2,800   1950
[29] Tacoma Narrows Bridge (eastbound) Tacoma, WA, USA 853 2,800   2007
[30] * Askøy Bridge Bergen, Norway 850 2,789   1992
[31] Innoshima Bridge Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan 770 2,526   1983
[32] * Akinada Bridge Akinada Islands (Hiroshima Pref.), Japan 750 2,461   2000
[33] * Semipalatinsk Bridge Semipalatinsk (Irtysh river), Kazakhstan 750 2,461   2000
[34] Al Zampa Memorial Bridge (New Carquinez Bridge) Carquinez Strait, CA, USA 728 2,388   2003
[35] * Hakucho Bridge Muroran (Hokkaid? Pref.), Japan 720 2,362   1998
[36] * Angostura Bridge Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela 712 2,336   1967
[37] * Kanmonkyo Bridge Honsh?-Ky?sh?, Japan 712 2,336   1973
[38] San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Yerba Buena Island to anchorage) San Francisco - Oakland, CA, USA 704 2,310   1936
[39] San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (San Francisco to anchorage) San Francisco - Oakland, CA, USA 704 2,310   1936
[40] Bronx Whitestone Bridge New York, NY, USA 701 2,300   1939
[41] Stord Bridge Stord, Norway 677 2,221   2001
[42] * Pierre Laporte Bridge Quebec City, Canada 668 2,190   1970
[43] Delaware Memorial Bridge I New Castle, DE - Pennsville, NJ, USA 655 2,150   1951
[44] Delaware Memorial Bridge II New Castle, DE - Pennsville, NJ, USA 655 2,150   1968
[45] * Haicang Bridge Xiamen, Fujian Province, China 648 2,126   1999
[46] * Gjemnessund Bridge Kristiansund, Norway 623 2,044   1992
[47] Walt Whitman Bridge Philadelphia, PA - Gloucester City, NJ, USA 610 2,000   1957
[48] * Tancarville Bridge Le Havre, France 608 1,995   1959
[49] * New Little Belt Bridge Little Belt, Denmark 600 1,969   1970
[50] First Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge Onomichi-Imabari Route, Japan 600 1,969   1999
Linked photo [51] * E’gongyan Bridge Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China (Yangtze River) 600 1,969   2000
[52] * Osterøy Bridge Osterøy, Norway 595 1,952   1997
[53] Bømla Bridge Bømlo, Norway 577 1,893   2001
[54] * Rainbow Bridge Tokyo, Japan 570 1,870   1993
[55] Ambassador Bridge (The largest from 1929 until 1931) Detroit, Michigan, USA –