Vote for the worlds greatest elevator ride. The contenders include: John Portmans spectacular scenic hotel rides; a James Bond style elevator at the Mercedes Museum; a Chinese cliff face elevator; the construction workers elevator on the Burj Dubai, which is twice as high as the Empire State building; the elevator which climbs through the center of the giant Berlin Sea life aquarium and an enormous, futuristic elevator for boats in Scotland. My personal favorite is the elevator at the Mole in Turin which has a unique history.

By the end of the decade, not one of New York&#039;s skyscrapers will be in the top 10 tallest, compared to those in Saudi Arabia or the Arab Emirates. <p /><p />The Burj Dubai, which is nearly completed will be the size of two Empire State buildings on top of each other and it would be completely dwarfed by proposals on either side of the Arabian peninsula for mile high towers. <p /><p />The Emirates contain some of the most surreal, monumental and ironic recent architectural projects, including a mammoth ferris wheel hotel, a twin tower Wold Trade Center and an enormous convention center intentionally modeled on the Death Star from Star Wars. <p /><p />Vote for the most surreal.

Top500.org have just released their updated list of the worlds most powerful supercomputers. In June all of the top 5 were in the US, now only 2 are, with India, Sweden and Germany appearing.<p /><p />Here&#x2019;s an interesting thing, you can make it into this list for less than the cost of a family house in Manhattan.<p /><p />The fact that a Swedish Military computer is at number 5 indicates that either the Swedish military require the world&#x2019;s most powerful computers, or they are just unusually unsecretive, and that there are many machines we don&#x2019;t know about.<p /><p />Here are the top 15, with pictures of the actual machines, where they have been built. Although the IBM Blue Gene has a simple and striking case, only the Barcelona Computer Center and Leibniz Rechenzentrum are contained in rooms that are at all impressive. Vote for which ones you think are worthy of note.

From a skyscraper&#x2019;s lights that can be controlled by passers by, to the legendary rock set design of Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park here are some examples of the worlds largest screens. Vote for your faves.

The Oobject Rotten Apple Award. To mark this week&#x2019;s 10th anniversary of the death of the Newton we have picked some of the products from Apple, that we&#x2019;d rather forget.<p /><p />We could have picked many more from the years when Jobs was in the wilderness and Apple attempted to be market driven rather than design driven, under Sculley. Reactive rather than pro-active. One problem, the gallery would have been a sea of similar, anonymous items. For the Sculley era machines, assume that we mean every product in the range.<p /><p />(update: Apple&#x2019;s earnings are just in and they are blow-out. After hours trading shows that as of today, Apple is worth more than IBM.).<p /><p />Vote for your all time worst product.

If you want to survive a shark attack, the surface of the moon, sub zero polar temperatures, fires, or crashes, insects or vegetarians these clothing items are the ones to be wearing.<p /><p />We&#x2019;ve looked through some of the most innovative new textiles, such as an aerogel jacket to bring you the definitive list. And we didn&#x2019;t include the &#x2018;thong&#x2019;. Vote for your faves.

The fact that vinyl is somewhat obsolete is exactly what drives the quixotic ambitions of high end turntable manufacturers to produce ever more extreme engineering solutions to sliding a diamond through a wavy notch and amplifying the wobble.<p /><p />The common ground here is to make a very heavy and rock solid platter and to move the motor as far away from it as possible, to avoid interference. The prices of these things range from under $1000 to a staggering $150,000<p />

Guiness&#x2019; law states that there is almost always more than one person who claims to have created the biggest, smallest fastest etc.<p /><p />Some of these items are disputable, but they are all cool. Our fave is the tiny combustion engine made at Berkeley.<p />

Some of these are very high end audiophile speakers and others are those that we think are well designed from a product point of view. Extremely well designed or extremely well engineered.<p /><p />The Kef Muon&#x2019;s are an unbelievable $140,000 while others are as low as $100. Our favorites are the 1960s Quad Electrostatics which are unlike anything ever made since and go nicely with a classic Quad 33 and 303 Pre and Power Amp.<p /><p />Its somewhat unfair to vote on something that is to be listened to and not looked at, so vote with your gut.

A nostalgic look at the prime or earliest examples of truly revolutionary gadgets. Keep sending us tips, and vote for the ones that impacted you most.

iPods, Nikons, vibrators, Hummers someone has released a really crass gold plated gadget for the arms dealer market. Gizmodo suggested the gold plated shuffle &#x201c;signaled the downfall of civilization&#x201d;, vote according to which item you think is the most revolting.

The Segway took the idea of the two wheeled vehicle and made it require thousands of dollars of electronics to remain as stable as an ordinary two wheeled bicycle. The Apple Newton was a personal organizer that required a personal assistant to carry it around for you.<p /><p />The common thread in the choices here is people mistaking sophisticated engineering for sophisticated design. Many were and still are technical triumphs.<p /><p />The Space Shuttle, for example, still bathes in the reflected glory of the Apollo missions, yet its design was largely a mistake based upon the PR potential of a plane-like craft, rather than practicality. Its replacement will look much more like a Saturn 5 rocket and it forms part of the hardware for what Nasa refer to internally as the &#x2018;crude missions&#x2019;.<p /><p />Below is our chart of the biggest all time tech. failures. Vote for the biggest loser or suggest some alternatives in the comments.<p />

Really complicated, and really expensive swiss watches are called grand complications based upon strict criteria.<p /><p />These are often based upon the gravity compensating tourbillon mechanism that isn&#x2019;t strictly needed for a wristwatch but is insanely complicated so people build them to show off their skills as watchmakers.<p /><p />This is the kind of gadget that gazillionaires with enough taste to avoid diamond encrusted ones buy when they fly into Geneva. They look very James Bond - except that they cost ten times as much as his humble Rolex or Omega, often costing more than $100,000 each.