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Apple’s Spending $US4M To Renovate A Subway Station
4:40PM Rosa Golijan | We’ve heard of Apple spending money on minor restorations and renovations of the areas surrounding their stores, but $US4 million to refurbish an adjacent subway station seems a bit excessive. Especially since they’re barely getting anything out of it. More »
Design
Nunnmps Is A Research Facility With Its Evil Nature Disguised By Utter Beauty
1:52PM Rosa Golijan | Part centipede, part flamingo, Nunnmps is a research studio designed by Cheunvogl and to be located in Chicago. It looks like the perfect place to scheme a coup d’état or work on whatever mysterious projects it is intended for. More »
Gadgets
4:00AM Dan Nosowitz | A recently dug-up Time Magazine article from 1951 applauds Zenith’s “Phonevision,” a way-ahead-of-its-time invention that allowed movies ordered over the phone to be watched on a set-top box, no physical media required. More »
Phonevision: The Death Of Physical Media Started In 1951
4:00AM Dan Nosowitz | A recently dug-up Time Magazine article from 1951 applauds Zenith’s “Phonevision,” a way-ahead-of-its-time invention that allowed movies ordered over the phone to be watched on a set-top box, no physical media required. More »
Vehicles
Chicago Street Lights May Scan for Car Insurance
2:10AM Mark Wilson | Ticketing red light runners is standard practice in many big cities, but Chicago is considering doing one better and scanning every car going by for up to date insurance. More »
Design
Chicago Spire to Be World’s Second Tallest Skyscraper
9:00AM Sean Fallon | A giant joint? The horn on a unicorn? How about the taller Dubai Tower with its twists? One thing is for certain, the Chicago Spire will be the world’s second tallest building when it is completed in 2011. The Spire was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, and it will rise 2000 feet over the streets of Chicago and feature 150 floors housing 1,194 residences. And, because of its unique spiraled design, each floor rotates an average of 2.44 degrees (360 degrees in total) so that no two apartments have the same view. And the building has a LEED gold rating for supreme greenness. More »
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