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• Touch Computing Hits Its Stride
Research into tactile, or tangible, computing is one of the most fertile areas of electronic-product design. The systems incorporate familiar objects such as toys, game tokens, cell phones, or wine glasses -- and even substances like sand and clay ...
• Giant solar tower could power the future
A new energy concept called a solar tower could generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes. Looking like a giant smokestack, it would release no noxious fumes — just sun-heated air. Demonstrated more than 20 years ago, the basic design calls for ...
• Wynn Names Tim Poster and Tom Breitling Senior VPs
Until now, we've only been limited by our human capital and our limited capacity to design, develop and operate resorts that live up to our standards.
• No more dingy bars for road warriors
The bar takes its design cues from the blue bottle and cool tones of Bombay Sapphire gin. "It's a very striking design, very elegant," says Robin Hayes, B.A.'s executive vice president, Americas.
• TODAY: Coral too precious to wear?
Dashing the dreams of 50 other beauty queens, 26-year-old Texan Crystle Stewart captures the coveted title of Miss USA 2008. View photos from the competition. Sea coral is blessed with wonderful colors, an intricate design and memories of the lapping ...

» archKIDecture [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - A place where children can engage and participate with the built environment. Offer various building projects and information about architecture.
» Area of Design [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Provides information about American art and design, and features interviews with the United States' best designers and artists.
» Bad Human Factors Designs [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use with suggestions on how to improve them.
» BSI Education [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Provides information for 7-19 year olds about the use of British Standards in the design and manufacture of products.
» Building Big [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - Learn about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels. Find out the facts about large structures around the world and how they are built.
» Color Theory [ Kids ] - Learn about the color wheel, mixing, schemes, and mood. Find activities, vocabulary, puzzles, and quizzes.
» Design Addict: Index [ Mature Teens ] - A large source of information on 20th century designers and manufacturers. Includes the ability to search objects by period, function or material.
» Eclectic [ Mature Teens ] - A magazine designed specifically for high school students interested in art, and their future with it after high school.
» Harvard Design Magazine [ Mature Teens ] - From the Graduate School of Design, a magazine featuring essays, images, discussions, book reviews, and recent projects in architecture and the built environment.
» Kids Design Network [ Kids/Teens/Mature Teens ] - A site from DuPage Children's Museum, offering design challenge activities where children can imagine design ideas to solve problems, draw their design, build it and show it to others.
» Tribu-Design [ Teens/Mature Teens ] - An educational database listing design classics with photographs. Search by timeline, designer or manufacturer.