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Wednesday,  03/24/04  06:49 PM

 

Wednesday,  03/24/04  08:30 PM

Tonight we have lots of visuals... Leading off - a QTVR of ice climbing in the Pyrenees.  Harrowing and amazing: Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designs radical and amazing buildings: NASA is not only great at building unmanned spacecraft, they're good at making paper models of them, too: And speaking of paper models, how about these models from Star Wars!  Wow: Makes you want to reach for your scissors, doesn't it :) One of the cool things on the horizon has been "virtual keyboards" for small devices.  Well here you go, a Siemens phone/PDA with a laser keyboard: Ocean explorer traps cool predators from the ocean bottom, like this deep sea isopod: Looks like a giant pill bug! From isopods to iPods, here we have - the iPodrace!  Featuring Santa Claus wearing a Steve Jobs mask, in a Star Wars -style pod racer made from an iPod: This is really cool - literally! Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria won a Rolex award for his "pot-in-pot refrigerator". Food that used to spoil in a few days now stays fresh for weeks: A really cool Japanese water ferry, designed by anime artist Leiji Matsumoto: And finally, translucent concrete...  I am not making this up. Oops, almost forgot.  It's fashion week in L.A.!

 

Understanding Engineers, Take 2

Wednesday,  03/24/04  10:49 PM

Continuing our attempts to understand engineers: To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

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