switzerland

Saturday, November 7, 2009
Design

Office Building Or Home To A Super Heroine?

3:25PM Rosa Golijan | Switzerland gets all the cool offices. This particular one’s dubbed “Cocoon” and acts as headquarters for an architecture firm. I prefer to imagine it as home to a super heroine who zoom-zoom-zips down that spiral and saves the day. More »
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Design

Google’s Swiss HQ Blends A Lot Of Fun With Some Function

12:40PM Rosa Golijan | I couldn’t be more envious of Google engineers working out of Switzerland. Despite the tacky wallpaper in its library, the new EMEA Engineering Hub is the most fun-looking office environment I’ve seen in a while. More »
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Design

Don’t Adjust Your TV Set

7:40AM Jesus Diaz | If you look closely, you will see circles overlaid on this idyllic postcard of Vercorin, Switzerland. It’s not a Photoshop: These holes are as real as the ones in Gruyere cheese. It’s a startling optical illusion; 2500-pixel panorama ahead. More »
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Press

Tourists Rescued from Swiss Mountains Thanks to Magic iPod

7:15AM Gizmodo US Edition | Two French tourists were rescued today in the Swiss mountains after getting lost on a ski trip. They managed to contact authorities, but their phone died shortly thereafter. Thank God somebody brought an iPod. More »
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Software

Open Source Switzerland Network Testing Tool Catches ISP Throttlers In the Act

10:00AM Jack Loftus | As part of an effort to thwart future ISP infractions, a la Comcast, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Switzerland, an open source software tool for “testing the integrity of data communications over networks, ISPs and firewalls.” If you’ve been following Comcast for any amount of time over the past year or so, you know exactly what that means. More »
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Gadgets

Swiss Swimming Pool Warmed by Surplus Server Heat and Alliteration

8:57PM Gizmodo US Edition | There’s clearly something going on with the Swiss and hot water: first “extreme jacuzzi-ing” on top of Mont Blanc, and now they’re going to use waste energy kicked out by servers to warm a swimming pool. It’s a simple concept: take the heat from the server room air-conditioners at a new data centre, and direct it through heat exchangers to the water in the town pool. The town, Uitikon, will get a hot pool and all they had to pay for was some of the connecting gear since the heat would otherwise have been vented. Cool! … or rather, hot! Darn eco-friendly too. [Sydney Morning Herald] More »
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