Form, meet function. The 42-story Strata Building —also known by its much cooler nickname, ” The Razor “—will get 8% of its energy from three wind turbines built into its façade
March 13, 2010 - 7:34 pm
Tags: art, blackberry, building, design, lego, legoblackberry, none-solid, projects, punchline, RIM, sawaya, the-work, took-some
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We’re no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya , but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting.
March 13, 2010 - 7:34 pm
Tags: art, building, design, none-solid, punchline, punchline-functionality, RIM, sawaya, the-work, working-flat
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We’re no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya , but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting. It incorporates a working flat screen TV for comfortably displaying video. Clearly he took some artistic liberties
March 11, 2010 - 3:13 am
Tags: advanced-format, aging, architecture, data, drive-equipment, linux, technology, western-digital, Windows 7, windows 7 hard drives, windows 7 news, windows 7 speed
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Hard drive manufacturers are set to improve the speed, capacity, and power consumption of their drives by 2011. While this technology will benefit users of Windows 7 and other modern operating systems, Windows XP users may actually be facing a performance hit by using the new drives.
Alcatraz was designed to be impossible to escape from by being out on an island in San Francisco Bay. And this vertical prison concept has the same idea: if you want to escape, it’s a long way down. The design, which was the winner of Evolvo Magazine’s 2010 skyscraper competition , probably won’t be built anytime soon.
March 6, 2010 - 1:00 am
Tags: achieving-fame, apple, apple-lawsuit, assembled-home, dubai, house, music, paris, patents, rampage, resources, tgif, utilizing-three
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Apple’s lawsuit against HTC made one thing clear: Steve. Jobs.
March 5, 2010 - 1:20 am
Tags: architecture, big-question, concept, design, lamp-design, lamps, left-image500, lighting, loch ness monster lamp, nessie, nessie-the-lamp, thing, wall-or-ceiling
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Alright, so maybe Nessie isn’t lighting up my living room just yet, but you can bet that if this concept lamp design ever gets produced, she will. The big question though: Shall I put her on a wall or ceiling? Nessie the Lamp was designed by 2-B-2 Architecture and is everything I want in a lamp
March 4, 2010 - 7:48 pm
Tags: app store apps, down-or-stop, finally-coming, ipod touch, price, problems, rumors, state of the apps, store, upgrade-pricing, upgrade-revenue
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UPDATE: Or not, as this dialog’s been around for a while as per 9to5Mac ’s @llsethj .
This is Danvers State Insane Asylum, the inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham Sanitarium “which in turn was the inspiration for Arkham Asylum in the Batman comic book series.” Today, the building is part of Avalon Danvers , a pleasant residential community
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Is the new world’s tallest building going through some issues? While so far only the observation deck is open, it’s been temporarily shut down due to “unexpected high traffic” and “electrical problems.” Ruh roh!![Worlds Tallest Building Burj Khalifa Gets Shut Down [Buildings]](http://www.hirdyman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/226ac3e48d.gif?eui=2226 "Worlds Tallest Building Burj Khalifa Gets Shut Down [Buildings]")
