Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Seven most unusual stadiums in the world

 Retesh:

World games stadium
World games stadiumThis Taiwanese stadium is world's largest solar powered sports ground

Sports, like any other entertainment, have attracted designers and architects to design unique arena for its spectators. World wide sports lovers dream to visit best stadiums to enjoy their favorite soccer game or even cricket series.

Every country strives to build a comfortable and spectacular stadium for its sport loving crowd. But ever increasing environment consciousness has instigated architects to design unusual and Eco-friendly grounds. Here's a list of few best and unusual sport arenas from around the world.

1. Floating platform at Marina Bay, Singapore

Marina Bay, Singapore
Marina Bay, SingaporeLargest sports platform on water

This pride possession of Singapore is the largest platform built on water. It is situated at Marina Reservoir in Marina Bay. This pure steel made sports stage stretches up to 120 meters length wise and 83 meters wide. It is best suited for any world class soccer game. It can hold crowd weight of 9000 people. It holds a seating capacity of 30,000 audiences.

2. World games Stadium, Taiwan

World games stadium
World games stadiumThis Taiwanese stadium is world's largest solar powered sports ground

This solar powered stadium is the largest solar powered stadium in the world. The huge solar power panels incorporated in the stadium produce 1.4 Giga bytes energy every year. This is not only sufficient to feed the requirement of the stadium but realizes the power appetite of neighborhood when stadium is not in use. This huge stadium is eco sustainable.

3. Veltin –Arena, Gelsenkirchen , Germany

Veltin-Arena
Veltin-ArenaMarvelous stadium in munich, germany

Situated in north of Munich, it just doesn't host world class soccer games but also entertains the boxing, ice hockey and even opera enthusiasts. Its slide out pitch and space age fiber glass roof is hallmark of this magnificent structure. Interesting aspect of this stadium is its changing exterior colors like chameleon. Red light up when Bayern Munich is playing, white as German national team is on ground and blue when 1860 Munich plays. It has an audience capacity of 69901.

4. Eco stadium, Brazil

Eco stadium, Brazil
Eco stadium, BrazilThis stadium is made of recycled wood and eco-sustainable resources

Janguito Malucelli, first green stage of Brazil, is located in Curitiba. The stadium is constructed with recycled wood. Its 6000 spectators can use grass covered seating to watch their favorite soccer game.

5. Gospin Dolac, Croatia

Gospin Dolac Croatia
Gospin Dolac CroatiaThis picturesque stadium is visitors paradise

A stadium with dual treat. Best is you can watch sportsmen in action and second, enjoy the beautiful scenic beauty of surrounding. Located next to 500mtrs deep fall into a lake, it is home stadium of NK Imotski Football Club. It has a seating capacity for 4000 spectators.

6. Saporo dome, Japan

Sapro Dome
Sapro DomeUnique saucer like sport arena in snow filled city

This 8300 ton field slides in and out like flying saucer, in this snow bitten Japanese city. This saucer shape stadium opens up to fresh sir and sunlight on bright days. And also let the visiting audience enjoy the game of baseball or soccer when it is not snowing.

7. Estadio municipal, Portugal

Estadio municipal, Portugal
Estadio municipal, PortugalDefining Portuguese love for sport and color

This colorful sport retreat is handiwork of Portuguese architect, Thomas Taveira. He has assimilated the spectrum of red, blue, green, and yellow, orange, black to bring about this visually appealing architecture.

Seven worst PC keyboards you would want to type on

 Mishra:

Worst keyboards to type on
Worst keyboards to type onThe 7 worst keyboards of all times

Keyboards are the basic input device of any computing device and perhaps the most important feature in any computer, but if you feel that typing on a keyboard has always been easy, then you are in for a big surprise. There have been more than one occasions where the manufacturers have got it all wrong. From lacking basic keys to confusing arrangement of the keyboard to simply unfeeling flat keyboards, there have been numerous occasions when typing on a key board hasn't been easy. Some of the Keyboards being covered in this article are so difficult to type that it would be no less than a nightmare to work on them. There have even been times when a newly created PC failed in the market because of its totally awful keyboard.

The seven worst PC keyboards that you would never wish to handle are-

1. IBM PCjr-

IBMPCjr keyboard
IBMPCjr keyboardthe topper in the list of worst keyboards ever created.

It was the first ever keyboard that was packaged together with the IBM PCjr and is the most notorious of the lot. It is one of the few cases wherein a keyboard led to the failure of the computer in the market. It was the first wireless keyboard, but was not meant to be used in anyway that could provide comfort to the user and it ate batteries at a terribly fast rate. The worst feature, however, was the unmarked keys as every marking was made above the respective keys.

2. Commodore PET2001-

Commodore pet2001
Commodore pet2001number 2 on the list because of its faulty design and difficult use.

This is one of the worst ever keyboards that resembles a child's toy. It was awfully cramped and contained membrane buttons that were prone to quick wear and tear, and the worst part of typing was that you could never be sure if you had pressed the right button or not. The usage of a small "space key" rather than the space bar brought it much criticism even at the time of its launch.

3. Mattel Aquarius-

Mattel aquarius
Mattel aquariusone of the worst design blunders in the history of keyboards.

This was in fact one of the biggest design blunders of all times because of the strategically placed "reset" key that once accidentally pressed deleted hours of work done. You can also note the odd position of the Return key and the small space key in the list.

4. Timex Sinclair1000-

Timex Sinclair1000
Timex Sinclair1000too much in too little space

This was a simple case of cramping too much in too little space. The keyboard was tiny, with each key assigned a number of values with basic commands that were created to simplify the work but rather ended up making typing a nightmare on the keyboard.

5. Atari400-

atari400
atari400full flat and feel less keyboard

This keyboard sported a real flat membrane of a keyboard that was proudly exclaimed to be waterproof. But the actual truth is said to be that it was cheaper to manufacture membrane keys than the normal ones. The keys here were so flat that it could never be confirmed whether a key has been pressed and the input taken in, later on however, a click sound was added to every key-press to compensate for this lack of sense.

6. Tandy TRS80 MC10 Micro Color Computer-

Tandy TRS80
Tandy TRS80no backspace, no left shift and change in key allignment amde it difficult to operate

The keys of this keyboard were said to be highly responsive but the problem lay with the small size and multiple values added to every key press. The other defects include lack of backspace key and no shift key on the left side. The break key and control key were actually put in place of the backspace and the left shift key, respectively.

7. Texas Instruments TI99/4-

Texas Instruments
Texas Instrumentsconfusing multiple functions of the keyboard and cramping size made typing difficult.

This keyboard did not support the lowercase letters. The combination of Shift and Q was used to reset the system, but was at times unwittingly used by programmers to get a capital Q. The lack of space bar and its odd location along with the changing of position of the Enter key led to a lot of confusion.