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Fallingwater is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Construction began in 1936, and completed in 1939. This is a spectacular 3-d animation from Etérea featuring the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.
Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
March 15, 2010 is the 25th anniversary of the first .com name registration. Symbolics Computers of Cambridge, MA registered the first Internet address ending in .com symbolics.com in 1985. The web-site Geekosystem says symbolics.com was launched by the computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., which was a spin off from MIT’s AI Lab, so they were in the thick of things in the days of the early Internet. 
The company went bankrupt in the mid-’90s (but not before their graphics division helped animate the orca in Free Willy), and was sold in 2009 to a domain name investment company, XF Investments.
Mark McLaughlin, CEO of Verisign, told the BBC News, “This birthday is really significant because what we are celebrating here is the Internet and .com is a good, well-known placeholder for the rest of the Internet.” The BBC article says it is unlikely that the early .com’s were thought of as businesses as the early internet was not seen as a place for commerce but rather as a platform for governmental and educational bodies to trade ideas. It took until 1997, well into the internet boom, before the one millionth .com was registered.
“Who would have guessed 25 years ago where the internet would be today. This really was a groundbreaking event,” McLaughlin said, “with 668,000 dotcom sites registered every month, they have become part of the fabric of our lives.”
An estimated 1.7 billion people – one quarter of the world’s population – now use the internet. Verisign’s Mr McLaughlin only sees that figure growing over the next quarter of a century. “I think that the way we access information today, mostly still through PCs and laptops is highly likely to change; that the voice will be more important than text input.” He continues, “I think the whole fabric of how we access, search, find and get information is going to be radically different.”
The BBC reports that Verisign, which is responsible for looking after the .com domain, currently logs 53 billion requests for websites – not just .coms – every day, and Mr McLaughlin told BBC News, “We expect that to grow in 2020 to somewhere between three and four quadrillion (1 quadrillion is 1,000 billion).”
The Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT has developed a “personal food factory.” The scientists have created prototype 3D printer that stores, mixes, deposits, and cooks layers of ingredients that will rival your grandmother’s multi-layered lasagna according to Globalspec. The project called Cornucopia is a concept design for a personal food factory that brings the versatility of the digital world to the realm of cooking.
MIT says Cornucopia’s cooking process starts with an array of food canisters, which refrigerate and store a user’s favorite ingredients. These are piped into a mixer and extruder head that can accurately deposit elaborate combinations of food. While the deposition takes place, the food is heated or cooled by Cornucopia’s chamber or the heating and cooling tubes located on the printing head. This fabrication process not only allows for the creation of flavors and textures that would be completely unimaginable through other cooking techniques, but it also allows the user to have ultimate control over the origin, quality, nutritional value and taste of every meal.
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