Word: modularity
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...northern Virginia, officials pulling overnight duty are scarfing junk food, soft drinks and coffee as they surf mountains of intelligence reports for the latest potential threat to Americans. These are the men and women of the year-old Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). As they sit at gray, modular workstations equipped with secure computer terminals and phones, their toil is long and arduous but never dull. "It's day right now in half the world, so this shift's pretty fast paced," says an official. "In another hour, it's morning prayers in East Africa. It's morning already...
...Adventures of Arlington, Va., is marketing that trip and claims that 100 would-be astronauts have already put down deposits. An orbiting hotel may not be so far behind. Nevada real estate magnate Robert Bigelow says he's ahead of schedule in his $500 million plan to launch a modular space station by 2015, one that he says would have "multiple uses," including, perhaps, rooms for couples to engage in a little space nookie...
Amid the student protests and social idealism of the sixties, avant-garde architects such as Sert saw the opportunity to use the University as a living laboratory. The most visible of these projects, a darling of Modernist architects, was an approach to building with pre-fabricated components. The modular concrete panels and brightly colored brise-soleil baffles of the Holyoke Center are indicative of Sert’s larger social goals of implementing low-cost building techniques for housing...
...last little stuffed animal or treat they got at a carnival or at an arcade, and they want a way to organize it," notes Wynhoff. One of PBteen's most popular offerings is the Locker Collection of desks, dressers, bins and media consoles, all fashioned after high school lockers. Modular and multicolored, the collection offers a way to organize teenage rooms that now boast almost as many electronic gadgets as the family den. To allow self-expression, furniture designers are creating headboards and desktops that double as shadow boxes for showing off pictures, awards or drawings. Teens are "curating their...
...quiet nook packs an impressive array of equipment and instruments. From some of the earliest analog modular synthesizers ever built to ultra-modern ProTools programs—used for digital audio production—the studio has advanced capabilities for recording, all at students’ beck and call...