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• Commentary On Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? Day of Glass 2 Video Will Blow Your Mind

  Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? Day of Glass 2 Video Will Blow Your Mind

  An interesting video showing how glass manufacturer, Corning Glass, envisions how glass will be used in technology in the near future. The gist involves a lot of ubiquitous glass display and touch control surfaces.

  Science_Fiction_Made_Real, Technology, !POST

  02.03.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business

  Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business

  Great read on the importance of API’s for better leveraging information to meet ones business goals.

  Beyond that, API’s hold a lot of interesting concepts and lessons for Architectural practice. An API is a way of abstracting the interface between different programs. It speaks to a modular and distinct information architechure that none the less behaves as if it is continuous.

  01.29.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On Underwater neutrino detector will be second-largest structure ever built

  Underwater neutrino detector will be second-largest structure ever built

  Like a huge net, this neutrino detector will be built on the floor of the sea and will cover an area of several cubic kilometers. The structure will consist of long cables anchored to the sea floor with large glass spheres brimming with sensors attached to them. While consisting mostly of empty space, the really interesting thing is that because the structure lives on the bottom

  01.03.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer

  A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer

  The apparent incongruity of our 3 dimensional space and the theoretically predicted 9 dimensional space of super-string theory has fascinated me for years.

  The proposed idea is that the other 6 dimensions are still wrapped up and very small, so only the 3 we currently live in are experienced. In many ways, this parallels our built environment where we only perceive the usual 3 dimensions, however every

  01.03.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On Transistors made from cotton yarn, t-shirt computers incoming | ExtremeTech

  Transistors made from cotton yarn, t-shirt computers incoming | ExtremeTech

  While a very cool idea, don’t let this make you think that your clothes will replace your smartphone one day. Do you really want to wear the same shirt every day or deal with the complexities of transferring your data securely to each day’s clothes?

  The real use of this type of technology will be adding another level of perception and connectivity to your day to

  01.03.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On Book Carving Landscapes by Guy Laramee | Swag So Fresh

  Book Carving Landscapes by Guy Laramee | Swag So Fresh

  It is fascinating how a simple act on mundane objects can create something amazing. These landscapes carved out of books have a strange intimacy while remaining mysterious. This duality makes all the difference.

  Originally via materialicious.
  http://www.materialicious.com/2011/12/book-carving-landscapes-by-guy-laramee.html

  !POST, Art

  01.03.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On Vasari and Dynamo

  Vasari and Dynamo – YouTube

  I am sure many of you have already seen this, but I wanted to talk about it anyway. Dynamo provides a graphical way for linking and driving parametric models in Revit. While there are similar tools such a Grasshopper for Rhino, Dynamo’s real promise is bringing a graphical programming environment to a production powerhouse like Revit. I look forward to seeing how it develops.

  You can check out more at:
  http://insidethefactory.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/12/revit-spaghetti.html

   

  And

  01.02.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On #AU2011 Revit for Presentations – Graphics That “POP” – Video and Materials – Jason Grant’s Blog – Adaptive Practice by Jason Grant

  #AU2011 Revit for Presentations – Graphics That “POP” – Video and Materials – Jason Grant’s Blog – Adaptive Practice by Jason Grant

  A really excellent presentation from AU2011 by Jason Grant and David Light on how to leverage Revit for producing great graphics. Much of their advice is straightforward and many people will know pieces of it, but I doubt very many have been as systematic about it as what is shown in the presentation.

  01.02.12 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On Scientists create light from vacuum

  Scientists create light from vacuum

  The vacuum of space isn’t empty. It is filled with a constant hum of virtual particles being created and destroyed. It turns out that a couple of scientists have succeeded in making virtual photons real by bouncing the virtual photons off a mirror moving near the speed of light. In this case the mirror is a an electric field.

  There is a lesson in this for Architecture; space

  12.18.11 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt

• Commentary On How atoms behave: Characteristics of microstructural avalanches

  How atoms behave: Characteristics of microstructural avalanches

  While not the easiest read for those not familiar with the techniques described to study the micro-structural avalanches, it is still an interesting article concerning the nature of material change.

  For a number of years I have intrigued by the idea that Architecture can be thought of as purely a material state with all that implies concerning phase changes, fluctuations in bulk intensive qualitative like temperature and the importance

  12.17.11 | no comments | Filed Under: General | ifttt