New CMU 3D-Printing Simulator Constructs Stronger, More Efficient Concrete Buildings

News - Carnegie Mellon University: When natural disaster strikes, a building’s survival often depends on how it’s built. Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a fast, highly accurate simulator for spray-based concrete 3D printing that could enable stronger, more complex and less wasteful construction by predicting how concrete behaves and solidifies, even around rebar.

Disguise GX 3+: More power and possibilities

TPi: A challenge faced during development was working to ensure that we can guarantee the increase in power requirements for the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture, which has a maximum power consumption of 600W. This has meant that we have had to validate a new power supply unit (PSU), as well as managing the increased cooling requirements.

YASA axial flux electric motor becomes the world's most power dense

newatlas.com: The axial flux electric motor pioneers at YASA are at it again. Just three months after sending tremors through the electric motor market with an unofficial world-record power density that absolutely trounced the nearest competitor, it's bested its own staggering 42-kW/kg mark. YASA's latest slimline automotive-grade e-machine is both lighter in weight and significantly more powerful than the last iteration, rewriting the power-density charts all over again.

Physicists Built a Pixel So Small, Full HD Could Fit on a Bread Crumb

gizmodo.com: We’re living in the age of miniaturization. Whether it’s a smartwatch, AR glasses, or the many other gadgets we’ve reviewed here at Gizmodo, tech is getting increasingly smaller. New research takes this to yet another extreme, with researchers developing the smallest pixel ever.

Did Ancient Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid With a Hidden Pulley System?

news.artnet.com: The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers built this monumental tomb in 20 years. That means a block got laid every minute. How did they do it? Everyone wants to know.

BIOMIMICRY: HOW NATURE INFLUENCES INNOVATION

News | CFDA: The definition of biomimicry is the act of using nature as a model for human inventions. It is a technological-oriented approach focused on putting nature’s lessons into practice. To see nature as a model, study the model and use it as inspiration for designing and solving humans complex problems.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Career Advice for Aspiring Artists

mymodernmet.com: American architecture was forever changed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his storied career, which spanned more than 70 years, Wright not only created unique styles of architecture, but helped teach future generations of architects. In fact, it was his teaching that sustained him during periods of inactivity when he failed to win building commissions.

T SHAKI's portable nightclub transforms lebanese landmark into party destination

www.designboom.com: T SHAKI adds an additional layer on beirut‘s sporting club beach with the design of a mountable and dismountable structure, which can transform the coastal landmark into an open air nightclub in just a few hours. central to the design is a large floating ring that flashes different light patterns and colors according to the beat of the music.

ETC celebrates successful Prolight+Sound

LightSoundJournal.com: Visitors flocked to ETC’s stands in Hall 3.0 at the recent Prolight+Sound tradeshow in Frankfurt to get a glimpse of the company’s latest innovations. Among the main attractions were several new products – the Element 2 lighting control console from the award-winning Eos family, ColorSource Pearl variable white-light LED fixtures, and the Irideon WLZ architectural wash light – all making their European debut.

How to Link Spreadsheets & Share Data in Google Sheets

business.tutsplus.com: Spreadsheets are one of the best ways to log and organize data. Frequently, I use them to organize projects or take notes on something new I'm learning. It's easy to use a spreadsheet like a blank canvas, and then order the data into a structured format later.

New exoskeleton takes injury-prevention to the max

newatlas.com: Earlier this year, California-based suitX announced what it claimed was the world's most affordable mobility exoskeleton, the Phoenix. Designed for disabled users, it utilizes motors to move their legs for them. Now, the company has unveiled a non-motorized product that could make a lot of other peoples' lives easier – it's time to meet MAX, or the Modular Agile Exoskeleton.

Making Art Accessible

Stage Directions: Deaf West Theatre has pioneered the concept of theatre for deaf audiences, incorporating deaf theatre artists, for nearly three decades—and it’s only just begun to hit its stride. Ed Waterstreet, an accomplished stage actor known through the Los Angeles theatre community, served as founder and artistic director of Deaf West. From its home base in North Hollywood, Deaf West became the first company to incorporate American Sign Language for Southern California audiences, with a view toward serving the 1.2 million hearing impaired individuals in LA county. The company’s message has now expanded far beyond the west, as it brought critically and commercially successful productions of Big River and Spring Awakening to Broadway. In 2012, respected theatre artist David Kurs became the company’s new artistic director; together, Kurs and Waterstreet maintain their key commitment to offer deaf actors, directors and playwrights the opportunity to do the work they want to do, unfettered. They do it through creative resolve, artistic generosity and a highly honed technical process.

A closer look at Microsoft’s crazy Surface Dial puck

The Verge: Microsoft unveiled its Surface Studio PC last month, alongside a crazy-looking Surface Dial puck. The new accessory is, perhaps, the most surprising and unique part of the Surface Studio. It's a big puck that is designed to be placed on the Studio's screen to produce radial menus and act as another form of input. Microsoft is selling the Surface Dial separately to the Surface Studio, so you can use it with any Windows 10 PC. I got a chance to try one out for a few days, to see whether you'd want to use a Surface Dial on a PC.

TAIT Talks Archives

TAIT: Over the past months, Dell and TAIT worked together to share what the future of technology and entertainment will look like. After months of meeting, Dell came to our headquarters, equipped with cameras, and captured our work on the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s World Tour. From that filming, Dell published this video, “TAIT Creates Pioneering Live Entertainment Experiences with Dell,” featuring Adam Davis, Partner and CCO, Brian Levine, Sr. Director of Project Management and Jim Love, VP of Engineering.

TAIT CREATES FIRST EVER COMMERCIAL USE OF A CABLE COASTER VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATOR AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICS “EXPERIENCE MARS”

TAIT: National Geographic Channel unveiled “Experience Mars”, a first-of-its-kind immersive activation, for “recruits” to experience Mars with TAIT’s cable coaster virtual reality simulator.

Between October 26th and 29th, the corner of Canal and Varick streets in New York City were bustling with space enthusiasts, virtual reality bloggers, media influencers and experience seekers vying for a spot to land on Mars. Once inside the “Mars Experience” recruits climbed aboard the cable coaster virtual reality simulator and traversed the landscape of Mars prior to officially touching down.

National Geographic brings Mars to Manhattan

Ars Technica: The National Geographic Channel, fresh off its sale to Fox, is now focusing on creating premium original content. Its first effort: a fact-based dramatization of what it might be like to send the first human visitors to Mars in the 2030s. As part of that effort, the company has taken over an empty lot in downtown Manhattan and seeded it with a collection of interconnected domes meant to evoke what the first habitations on Mars might look like.

Engineers Create Acoustic Holograms

ENGINEERING.com: Engineers have developed a simple, energy-efficient way to create three-dimensional acoustic holograms. The technique could revolutionize applications ranging from home stereo systems to medical ultrasound devices.

Most everyone is familiar with the concept of visual holograms, which manipulate light to make it appear as though a 3-D object is sitting in empty space. These optical tricks work by shaping the electromagnetic field so that it mimics light bouncing off an actual object.

Neal Stephenson running Magic Leap content studio in Seattle

Business Insider: Secretive startup Magic Leap, which is developing a new headset technology that integrates computer graphics into the real world, is ready to move into its new office in Seattle that will also house a team of creators led by famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson. Magic Leap, with Stephenson's help, is currently recruiting additional producers and talent for a content studio based in Seattle, multiple sources tell Business Insider.

Seven Game-Changing Green Building Products for 2017

Builder Magazine: At the 2016 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo held October 5-7 in Los Angeles, Brent Ehrlich, products and materials specialist at BuildingGreen, Inc., presented the company’s 15th annual selection of green products that have the potential to change the way we build homes, infrastructure, and communities to better serve the environment around us. The Vermont-based resource provides guidance for builders and designers on green projects and evaluates products for sustainability.

We’ve Seen the Future of Storytelling, and It's F@#%ing Awesome

The Creators Project: Storytelling used to be as simple as gathering around a campfire and spinning a yarn, but the advent of 21st-century tech has revolutionized the way we share stories. Over the weekend, the inaugural Future of StoryTelling Festival (FoST FEST, for short) made a case for culture in the digital age.