Origami help for tech design. Scientists and engineers are employing origami techniques to help them design better telescopes and cars. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:11:07 AM    

 

'Cyber Oscar' for web project. A Cambodian project has won an award at the UN's digital divide summit for using technology to improve lives. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:10:36 AM    

 

Wondering how other people conceptualize computers in business issues?  Here is a short piece.  IBM services bring grid to publisher. Part of program to extend the reach of grid computing outside of the academic and research fields. [Computerworld News]

 

9:08:49 AM    

 

Is this not really the nub of landscape architecture?  Is it not about tales?  About moving through the landscape? ..."Sit down," he says, "and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard."  Everything the Adventurer Could Want, and Less. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time melds action and adventure in a single polished video game. By Charles Herold. [New York Times: Technology]

 

9:01:45 AM    

 

Can somebody help me out here?  How might a landscape architect or engineer, or client benefit from a heads-up display while walking the raw site for a project?   Heads-Up Displays Move From Cockpits to Cyclists' Helmets. Soon recreational motorcyclists and bicyclists will be able to take advantage of data projected into their line of sight. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

 

8:58:30 AM    

 

While Madis Pihlak, Penn State Landscape Architect writes: "The LA World still seems to marginalize the digital world."  ...and asks"  "Do you agree? Do you care?"  The rest of the world comments at the UN:  U.N. Summit Calls for Wired World. The first World Summit on the Information Society wraps up with a plan for extending the Internet and other modern wonders to the planet's poorest countries. No word yet on who will pay. [Wired News]

 

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