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...year later, in 2003, the idea transformed into the foundation of a company he started called SensiTile, which is based in Detroit. In essence, SensiTile is a concept that gives concrete and plastic tiles a way to become interactive with touch, movement, light and shadow, which in turn dictate changes in the tile's color. "I have a little bit of trouble explaining it," says Lath, 31, who is originally from India but came to the U.S. to study electrical engineering at Arizona State University in 1993. "It's a very direct and intuitive phenomenon that has to be experienced...
...pilot circled the house and got into position. Two para-rescue jumpers (PJs), the Air Force?s elite operators trained to go behind enemy lines and extract downed pilots, strapped into a hoist and descended to the slippery tile roof, aiming for the chimney which crumbled under their weight. The PJs chopped through the roof and went inside, surprised to find all eight people squatting in Edna's apartment. They hoisted them out one by one. Edna's mother, Flora, came up with her walker. Her friend Mary came up with her cane. None of them brought anything more than...
...factory floor at Asia Tile, in Surabaya, Indonesia, about 650km from Jakarta, is not a very happy or productive place these days. Earlier this summer, the company sent a quarter of its 2,700 employees packing, and employees fear another round of layoffs may be imminent. The reason, says Bambang Wicayo, the company's technical manager, is no mystery: skyrocketing oil prices have increased the cost of bringing in raw materials and delivering goods, while higher natural gas prices make it more expensive to fire the kilns that produce tiles. "If the price of gas continues...
...with remote cameras. And while the dislodged foam caused much consternation at the space agency, Discovery had the least loss of foam when compared to the other shuttle launches. Still, the first-ever space walk to the underside of the shuttle was deemed necessary to pull cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous had it hit the shuttle's wing or a heat-shielding tile elsewhere on the craft...
...shuttle's wings--and the atmosphere surrounding them--could heat to as much as 3000ºF (1650ºC). Any chink in the shuttle's heat-resistant armor could allow superheated air to penetrate unprotected areas, where it would act like a blowtorch--the same process that destroyed Columbia ?TILE DAMAGE One gouge is close to the wheel well, where an influx of hot gases could cause an explosion