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We have searched unsuccessfully for information on silk scarves featuring a circa 1949 edition of the London Underground map. More information at A History of the London Tube Maps and the London Underground Railway Society.
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Digital Urban - The Tutorials, everything you need to know about stitching the cascade of geographic and mapping data into panoramas and virtual spaces / Vastpark, create your own virtual world (via Wonderland ).
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In other words, what is usually described as 'good design' has a fast-decaying half-life, fading quickly from the public view with only a slim chance of being ressurected as a 'design classic' many years down the line.
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It's not hard to imagine why such a thing might be needed, or why governments around the world are champing at the bit to get hold of MAVs, but by the same token one should assume that even if the quasi-legendary robot dragonflies don't exist, then something incredibly similar already exists.
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Related, the end of Stylus Magazine - Noise into Music explains why sites like Last.fm ' promote mediocrity ': 'Why read 600 words about why you might or might not adore a record when you can get given a list of records you almost certainly will quite like for nothing, everyday?
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Have we lost all sense of proportion? There is no shortage of visual inspiration out there online. But while these little 800x600 (max) parcels of pixels offer an accurate, if low resolution, portrayal of people, places and things, conventional media is engaging in a slow process of distortion.
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A General Motors concept study, this Opel Kadett had an early hybrid drive: electrically-driven wheels with batteries charged by a Stirling Engine ( model versions here. This page at Radiationworks puts the total cost at 7 billion dollars, noting that 'no aircraft ever flew under nuclear power.'
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The work of Karl Hans Janke, troubled visionary: 'Even in the psychiatric department in the romantic Hubertusburg near Leipzig a man is thinking in such a way : Karl Hans Janke, a patient with unquestionable technical talent, sees himself as an artist and a technical designer.
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Victor Papanek praised the WOBO back in the 70s, as did the great Martin Pawley in his book ' Garbage Housing ' (the contents of which are explored at Let's Remake in this pdf, ' The Library of Radiant Optimism '). See also this inhabitat piece, WOBO, the brick that holds beer.
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