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...punk rock." Punk rock had a visual aesthetic, but it started and ended with the pierceable parts of its players' bodies. At 19, Williams, whose love of music trumped his aptitude for it, cozied up to his favorite band, Stiff Little Fingers, and talked the group into letting him design its stage show. When the Fingers broke up in 1982, he called his new favorite band. "They happened to be named...
...With funding from Case Western, Williams found a technology company willing to try and turn her Trekkie fantasy into reality: VirTra Systems of Arlington, Texas, which specializes in the creation of virtual training systems for the U.S. military. VirTra and Williams collaborated to design a 180-degree, three-screen high-definition movie theater and a process for creating multiple-choice adventure type movies...
...when the U.S. Army wanted to design a better vehicle for Iraqi-style urban warfare, its Tank-automotive and Armaments Command's National Automotive Center (NAC) contracted several companies - including Ford Motor Co. and Integrated Concepts and Research Corp. (ICRC) - to develop a gadget-laden, all-terrain vehicle in the style of the ever-equipped James Bond. "The truck's design team drew inspiration from 007 movies," NAC spokesperson for the Army's National Automotive Center, Germane Fuller told TechWeb...
...really loving it. The clincher is the wireless remote, which displays all of the artists, albums and songs alphabetically on a clear and spacious screen. There's a wheel for scrolling through names, and a special button for adding tracks to an on-the-fly playlist. Admittedly, the design isn't brand-new - Creative had a primitive version of this years ago, and Sonos has a more advanced one (for a more advanced price). Still, the speed with which I could remotely access songs stored on my PC, all alphabetized together despite their various origins, had me feeling that...
...parts of New Orleans that might flood again should be rebuilt. Currently, that means almost all of New Orleans. The locals hope, needless to say, that the feds will kick in enough money to improve their odds. "Luck," as baseball executive Branch Rickey once said, "is the residue of design...