HOLLYWOODLAND’s voice was not alone. Other hillsides also spoke. Across Los Angeles in the 1920s, signs announced new real-estate subdivisions in big block letters perched high above the city. BEVERLY CREST. BRYN MAWR. TRYON RIDGE. Read more…
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Before the Hollywood Sign Found Fame, Others Signs Dotted LA’s Hillsides
The truly shatterproof screen is a little bit like the flying car : It’s been promised for years, but never arrives. Scientists at University of Akron claim they’ve cracked the code, so to speak, by creating a super-tough screen out of transparent electrodes. Read more…
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Scientists Made an Unbreakable Smartphone Screen From Clear Electrodes
Is the L.A. of 2014 driving around on a road network built for the L.A. of the 1980s? That’s one conclusion two researchers at Arizona State University draw from their above data visualization , which uses building records from the Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office to infer the age of the metropolis’ roads. Green represents the oldest roads, red the newest. Read more…
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Animated Map Shows How Paved Roads Spread Across L.A. County
Beijing is one thirsty city. Its population of 22 million consumes barely 100 cubic meters of water per capita—one fifth the international water-shortage level—thanks to a chronic drought in the nation’s north. But this massive desalination plant could help supply a third of the city’s water singlehandedly. Read more…
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Beijing’s Giant New Desalination Plant Will Give Water to the People
Weehawken 16-year-old Justin Casquejo pulled a fast one on the guards at One World Trade Center on Sunday, reaching the spire of the 1, 776-foot-tall tower around 4AM and hanging out for at least two hours. Some people’s rebellious teenage phases are just cooler than others. Read more…
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Teen Sneaks Past Sleeping Guard to Reach Top of 1 WTC
Built for over a million people, the city of Ordos was designed to be the crowning glory of Inner Mongolia. Doomed to incompletion however, this futuristic metropolis now rises empty out of the deserts of northern China. Only 2% of its buildings were ever filled; the rest has largely been left to decay, abandoned mid-construction, earning Ordos the title of China’s Ghost City . Read more…
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Welcome to The World’s Largest Ghost City: Ordos, China
The design and fabrication of artificial ice-climbing structures is an incredibly creative yet widely overlooked form of experimental architecture. The resulting constructions are often astonishing: ice-covered loops, ledges, branches, and towers reminiscent of the playful 1960s experiments of Archigram , yet serving as some of the most spatially interesting athletic venues in all of today’s professional sports. Read more…
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Ice-Climbing Structures Are Mind-Blowing Experimental Architecture
The announcement last year that Los Angeles would be replacing its high-pressure sodium streetlights—known for their distinctive yellow hue— with new, blue-tinted LEDs might have a profound effect on at least one local industry. All of those LEDs, with their new urban color scheme, will dramatically change how the city appears on camera, thus giving Los Angeles a brand new look in the age of digital filmmaking. As Dave Kendricken writes for No Film School , “Hollywood will never look the same.” Read more…
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How LED Streetlights Will Change Cinema (And Make Cities Look Awesome)
Hardscrabble Pictures added sound to this old black and white silent film of San Francisco’s Market Street in April 14, 1906, just four days before the big earthquake that destroyed 80 percent of the city. It’s really wonderful—put on your headphones and listen to the calm before the storm. Read more…
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This is how San Francisco sounded just before getting destroyed in 1906
alphadogg writes “The ITU has taken a big step in the standardization of G.fast, a broadband technology capable of achieving download speeds of up to 1Gbps over copper telephone wire. The death of copper and the ascent of fiber has long been discussed. However, the cost of rolling out fiber is still too high for many operators that instead want to upgrade their existing copper networks. So there is still a need for technologies that can complement fiber, including VDSL2 and G.fast. Higher speeds are needed for applications such as 4K streaming, IPTV, cloud-based storage, and communication via HD video, ITU said.” Meanwhile, I’m hoping Google Fiber, FIOS, and other fast optical options scare more ISPs into action along both price and speed axes. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won’t Come Until 2015