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Fascinated by the idea of "light as material," Azambourg began developing a lampless lampshade in 2002. Created with the textile company Dubar-Warneton, the shade is wired throughout with fiber-optic thread typically used in the aviation and space industries. "My lamp glows by itself--it's magical!" he says...
...project speak for themselves. What Lath and his team of engineers and architects do is alter the composition of concrete and plastic. To create the Scintilla tiles, hundreds of light-conducting channels are carved into a transparent block of clear or pigmented polymer. These channels act like fiber-optic filaments, giving the material the ability to magically shift, shimmer and ripple in response to movement and changes in light intensity. As a result, the tiles react to shadows and moving lights and accordingly disperse them on the tiles' surface...
...wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave...
...this procedure, performed under light sedation, doctors used a colonoscope, a flexible hollow tube with fiber-optic threads, that can be inserted to the full length of the large intestine. Inside the tube is a wire snare that emerges in a loop at the far end. Maneuvering the colonoscope, they placed the loop around the suspect polyp and passed an electric current through the wire which cauterized the polyp, freeing it from the intestinal wall. Held to the end of the colonoscope by suction, the polyp was withdrawn. Using the same instrument, the doctors visually scanned the rest...
...study of skin with Weill Cornell Medical College, the first ever collaboration between a university and a cosmetic brand. Perhaps the most revealing insight comes from Estée Lauder's research chief Daniel Maes, who notes that along with peptides and other compounds, his firm's Perfectionist cream includes optic polymers that reflect the light that hits the skin--creating the optical illusion that a wrinkle is smaller by blurring its edges. In other words, it's all about appearances. And who could argue with that...