Interesting bridge
Rolling bridge is a unique design by Thomas Heatherwick. When activated, this simple footbridge transforms itself, snake like, into a perfect octagon -- rather resembling a hamster wheel.
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i have the attention span of a squirrl 
6 Posted 267 days ago by eddie2042
ok guys it may not have a purpose and it may be slow, but it's one fine piece of engineering 
9 Posted 267 days ago by alexnader
Guys, i think that what we're missing here is what women call an "artistic perspective".
Basically it's just meant to be pretty; which we don't really get, but hey, who cares.
10 Posted 267 days ago by loki95531
My first thought was I wonder how hard it would be to roll it to another spot on the channel as a joke but I figure it is well anchored to the ground. It is very slow but cool also.
11 Posted 267 days ago by wyvern1978
"quick the barbarians are coming raise the draw bridge!!"
"oh shit never mind they made it!!"
14 Posted 267 days ago by vgsr
if it would be going faster it might smack the people off the edge on the other side like a whip when its becoming a bridge.
Beside its just art. i dont think art needs another purpose than beeing interesting.
15 Posted 267 days ago by rubi
"In 2005, the bridge won the British Structural Steel Design Award." wow oO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Bridge
16 Posted 267 days ago by Woll
Please tell me that I'm not the only one that thinks the first half of the clip looks like a bridge getting a hard-on.
17 Posted 266 days ago by Chucky
@#16 Nah, just you Woll (ya bridge-perv!) 
It only curls up at 12:00 on a friday, so it's clearly to stop the staff getting an early finish for the weekend.
18 Posted 266 days ago by NoNameMcGee
#17 great explanation. 
By the time the bridge curls up the boat TRYING to get through can sail around the world and back.... 2 times, to still make it on the other side of the bridge.
19 Posted 266 days ago by sselfless
sOoOoOoO SlOoOoOoOw ! This is the land of the internets, speed it up!
21 Posted 264 days ago by LightAng3l
I have seen this bridge before ... in that video a woman bent over and the bridge had an erection 
22 Posted 262 days ago by Sizzlik
for me it looks like a mechanical way do describe how it looks when a man gets a boner^^
24 Posted 142 days ago by matisse808
This clip reveals the dangers existant when a simple mind comes up with a simple image of a simple wheel uncoiling to become simply flat . . .wait . . . here it comes . . . WOW a bridge, then reverse-engineered to become something called "art," which required who knows how many thousands of pounds of money belonging to . . . I hope not the public, because this is neither art nor engineering.
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1 Posted 267 days ago by G7Pro
Well pretty cool, but why? are there toy ships that need to navigate through that channel of water?