Can you recall the Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Mothership? News is today Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, hauled back the barn doors on the novel WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier airliner. Touted as the world’s largest all carbon fused jumbo jet, the vehicle can ride at an utmost elevation of 50,000 ft and its U.S. coast-to-coast assortment will enable the spacecraft to be send out on long interval voyage. Driven by four Pratt and Whitney PW308A engines, the WhiteKnight2 is an airplane that will commence SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space.

The flight for WK2 will commence once it reaches an apposite juncture in a broad test program that has by now begun with ground tests. The flight test program will be all-inclusive even prior to SpaceShipTwo is approved as a consignment for the first time in 2009. It is being told that Richard Branson and his family will be the first one to bore the flight that will last 2.5-hours with five minutes of weightlessness before the craft reaches back to Earth.

Via Wired / CrunchGear

Those who wish to change their interiors and want to have everything in their little den have hit the right place. Sticking to their desire of having compact yet functional devices, here is a multi-purpose bathroom unit designed for luxury apartments that complain space-crunch. Called Vertebrae vertical bathroom system, the installation of this unit occupies diminutive floor space of 0.4 sq. mts. but goes beyond offering what you would have expected out of a regular bathroom counting showerheads, sink, cistern, loo and even a lot of storage units.

This revolutionary design is developed by designer Paul to meet day-today needs. The appealing body of the unit is constructed using pristine stainless steel to add classiness into your diminutive and humble apartment.

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For those who are biggest supporters of the old adage “silence is golden,” this designer kitchen hood called Space from Elica will be a definite must buy. Not just because it is noise free, but there are many other things to it that make it a wannabe.

Patented Elica Deep Silence Technology, this one is simply amazing when it comes to creating a peaceful cooking experience. When other hoods create that buzzing sound, the Space is absolutely quiet at an airflow of 500 m3/h. Te maximum noise level made by this one is only 45 db/A, which is approximately 35% less than the usual hoods. Isn’t that cool! Oops Hot!

Via: Yankodesign/ DesignRepublic