Nov 17, 20090
hard.core:Chemical Robot named JSEL
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Aug 10, 20091
Nothing Dune:Water-Liquid Gold
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In the book, futuristic suits let people live in the desert—but would they really work?
As you might guess, Frank Herbert’s seminal science-fiction novel Dune takes place in an arid environment. In fact, the fictional planet Arrakis is so strapped for water that the people who inhabit its open deserts wear elaborate full-body water-reclamation systems, called stillsuits, which keep them hydrated and cool. With a well-tuned stillsuit you would lose only a thimbleful of water a day, even in the worst conditions. Or so the story goes.
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Mar 17, 20090
som + sci-arc on core.form-ula
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The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) proposes a unique partnership with SOM to support the educational mission of the school to educate architects to engage, speculate and innovate. The following is a proposal for a collaborative SOM design computation research program with faculty and students from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California. The proposal seeks to build a repeatable structure for design research with SOM that is extensible within the SCI-Arc curricular constraints. SCI-Arc will undertake a research seminar to be lead by faculty Dr. David Jason Gerber.
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Nov 24, 20080
nanoBioSciences drug delivery
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nanoBioSciences is a small company out of Alameda, California that has developed a proprietary drug delivery patch system, dubbed AdminPatch, based on tiny microneedles form pressed out of standard metallic film. The company just attended SVOD (Silicon Valley Open Doors) 2008 meetup with venture capital firms to seek out investments to support final product development and future regulatory approvals. read more
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Oct 28, 20080
Event: Second Nature exhibition
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―Thinking about the future of design: Second Nature, from the depths of a sea of memories
This exhibition offers an opportunity to once again ponder the future of design as well as the mysterious powers of nature which transcend the limits of human imagination. Tokujin Yoshioka, the director of the exhibition, has attempted to incorporate in his own design work the many laws that exist in nature, while at the same time exploring the possibilities of technology. read more
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