Most newsworthy events fall into two general catagories; News and Media Events. News events are those events which can be represented as a set of information (the score was 5 to 4 in the Soccer game last night). These events can be represented as points in time. A media event is the coverage and […]
http://www.urbandesignweek.org/ Check the Competition “For the City/By the City” and other event along this week and next, including weekend.
World Cups utilize multiple stadiums across a country and bring them together for one competition between nations. In 2006, Germany was again able to show its changed image. For the Brazil Games, the country is having to build the image. New stadiums are being constructed and old stadiums are being renovated. Sustainability issues are coming […]
Link here “Carlos Bueno, author of a kids’ book about understanding computers called Lauren Ipsum, describes what happens when the cadre of competing bots that infest Amazon’s sales-database began to viciously fight with one another over pricing for his book. It’s a damned weird story. “
As shown in the graph displaying the number of countries broadcasting the Olympics and the revenue received from it, the fees for broadcasting the Olympics in the U.S. as greatly increased. Since the start of the broadcast of the Olympics in the 1960’s the fees that television networks were willing to pay for broadcasting […]
The 1972 Olympic Games were overshadowed by what is now referred to as the Munich Massacre. On September 5th, eight Palestinian guerrillas kidnapped eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials and held them hostage in their Olympic Village apartments. Two of the hostages initially resisted and were killed. Later that evening, the terrorists and their hostages […]
Link here. “Piccolo is a pocket-sized stand-alone CNC platform. For under $70, you will be able to assemble your personal Arduino-compatible kit for tinkering, and playing with basic CNC output. Be it plotting a quick graffiti, printing a one-off business card on the fly, or multiple Piccolos working together to create a large mural, this […]
3D-printed spider robot skitters where humans can’t “Roboticists from German research group Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have used a 3D printing process to create a terrifying spider-like octoped that skitters over hurdles and jumps over gaps.”
FRAC Centre Orléans 02.12.2011-19.02.2012 A project by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea in cooperation with ETH Zurich
Link to article here. “Synthetic-biology-based approaches to design practices, which have a material engagement with design and engineering practices, propose a new set of conditions in which architectures can alter their characteristics to suit changing environmental conditions. Living materials raise the possibility that buildings can make a positive impact on their local surroundings by performing […]
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