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Sure, the Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge may be quite stately, but they are sadly lacking any fire-breathing dragons. Now Vietnam has opened what is arguably the most awesome bridge in the world.

Artist Stephen Glassman sees billboards as a potential tool for confronting pollution challenges as cities grow. Imagine dozens of billboards repurposed as mini-gardens, each creating a tiny, cool microclimate.

For kids in the 1970s, Henry Winkler as The Fonz was the epitome of cool.

The Jukkasjarvi ice hotel is famous around the globe. The pure waters of the river Torne give the formations inside this cool palace quite a bit of sparkle.

Artist Daigo Fukawa took some rough sketches of basic furniture shapes and then re-created them in 3D as metal sculptures. The end results may not be comfortable or even that functional, but they look pretty cool…

After languishing in research labs for years, wearable computing is suddenly a hot topic in technology circles. Technologies such as Google Glass have ignited demand for more wearable gadgets.

With its cool blue palette, every inch of this serene image says winter, peace, silence. Colors can imbue a photograph with a strong sense of mood.

A group of farmers have gotten together to launch a $25 million ad campaign aiming to rebrand packaged baby carrots as cool, even extreme, in an effort to get kids to eat more of them.

Parents looking to buy anything connected with Walt Disney Co.'s red-hot "Frozen" movie should be prepared to wait or pay top dollar. The success of the movie has far exceeded expectations.

Virtual reality is cool and all, but you can't actually physically feel what's happening. Disney is looking to change that with Aireal, a new invention that blows puffs of air at people to simulate a tactile experience.