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...house of tomorrow will be made of soda bottles--that's how we best know the substance called PET, or polyethylene terephthalate. But architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake see a much different use for the plastic: embedded with flat circuitry that will enable walls to store heat, generate electricity and double as giant, flat-panel displays. Their iteration, called SmartWrap, could also make the building process faster and cheaper than ever...
...smarts in SmartWrap come from flat circuitry called OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes), which are tattooed onto the plastic by an ink-jet printer and can function either as a light source or a computer display. When used on an exterior wall, OLEDs could transform the look of your house in seconds. "You could have a blue house one day and a green house the next day," says Timberlake. "You could have a camouflage pattern or political signage." Insulation is provided by gel-filled pockets between two layers of SmartWrap; power can be supplied by solar cells and stored...
Despite the pop-culture bent of the book, Dowd avoids the trap of writing in the tone of a half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd...
...apparently freaky little white slits are the most recent innovation in reptile assault.While my much tamer Turtles were wandering through the wood block world I had created them, my sister was usually busy with an itsy-bitsy scenario of her own. Polly Pocket consisted of finely painted people of plastic about a centimeter-high which you could make sit at chairs in their itty bitty little plastic house which would fold up into some sort of little girl shape and take up a wallet-sized amount of your living space. Sadly, since companies don’t trust children...
...moronic.At the blissful end of this travesty, I have nothing but sympathy for the girl. I too know what it’s like to witness Michael’s unholy transformation into a monstrosity, but I’m pretty sure his condition is the result of bad plastic surgery, not lycanthropy.While “Thriller” is well-crafted entertainment, it’s no more incredible than the events in Michael’s real life—and those come free of charge on the evening news. —Bernard L. Parham3. Gold DiggerKanye...