3 posts tagged “technology”
David Fisher's company 'Dynamic Architecture' have developed a moving skyscraper! The building will be made up of 80 floors, with an apartment on each floor.
The rotating building is made possible by 79 giant power-generating wind turbines.
As well as the rotation, the wind turbines will also provide enough energy to power the entire building and feed extra energy back into the grid.
There are two buildings planned at the moment. One in Dubai and one in Moscow. The Dubai building is planned to be up and running by 2010.
I must have missed the roll-out of this feature, so I may as well mention it here.
Google Maps has a new major mode: "More" (next to Street View and Traffic.)
Under "More" I now find "Photos" and "Wikipedia."
This shows that North Beach in San Francisco is perhaps overrepresented in photography, and underrepresented in Wikipedia.
The Google Maps plus Wikipedia feature may be defective or incomplete. For example, I find it very difficult to believe that Fog City Diner has a wikipedia entry while City Lights Bookstore does not. See for yourself, then weep for the forgotten poets.
