Living Light by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul with a dynamic skin that glows and blinks in response to both data about air quality and public interest in the environment, says Interactive Architecture. The skin of the pavilion is a giant map of Seoul with [...]
T-Mobile USA has installed a solar-powered cell site, the carrier’s first site powered by renewable energy in the United States, reports GigaOm. The T-Mobile site uses 12 solar panels, although the actual wattage wasn’t specified. At 200 watts each, that would be about 2400 watts, enough to keep the site up running without requiring power [...]
Facebook’s first custom data center in Prineville, Oregon is receiving a “green” backlash since its electric utility, Pacific Power, will likely be getting most of its power from a coal-powered generator in Boardman, Oregon. According to Search Data Center, the location in the central Oregon community of Prineville all boiled down to cost. The company [...]
Amazon.com’s new headquarters in Seattle is equipped with an interactive, touch-screen transit kiosk that shows real-time public transit information and local amenities. It uses OneBusAway, a suite of tools to make using public transit easier for King County riders. People can view “real-time arrival times for Metro bus routes, find streetcar stops and arrival times, [...]
The OpenBTS-based cellular network at Burning Man has the power to change the world, says Network World. The super low-cost, solar or wind powered base station, provide free cellular service to anyone with an ordinary GSM cell phone. This is the third year that the low-cost, open source cellular network has offered free cell phone [...]
Meraki today announced new management tools for its meshed network Wi-Fi products that enable, fast, reliable connectivity. Meraki has added bandwidth shaping, diagnostics and spectrum analysis to the packet processing engine, embedded on each Meraki access point. Management of a Meraki network can be hosted by Meraki’s “cloud controller”, and managed nearly anywhere by a [...]
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