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...rhymes with “waffle-on,” and it’s totally awesome...It’s ROFLCon. ROFLCon is the brainchild of Tim R. Hwang ’08, a senior in Eliot House who is turning his potentially embarrassing obsession with LOLCats, The Tron Guy, and Chuck Norris Facts into what promises to be a historic conference at MIT later this month. It all started when Hwang asked himself, “what would happen if we got all these people in one room?” Lucky for us, he decided to find...
DEFINITION vam-pahy-r i-lek-tron-iks n. Unused appliances, like cell-phone chargers and coffeemakers, that quietly suck up electricity when left plugged into sockets. Constant consumers, they spike electric bills and put more strain on the nation's power grid...
...user interface. You're viewing a little world where data are objects, and instead of just pressing your nose up against the glass, you can reach in and pinch and touch those bits and bytes with your hands. The word is made flesh. Any realer and it would be Tron...
Even Nicolas Ghesquire, who has attracted much attention in the past few seasons with Balenciaga collections that looked both backward (to the archives) and forward (to Tron-inspired styles), is relying on basics. He showed a street-inspired collection of navy blazers and khakis--recut for a modern woman, of course. Navy and khaki: it doesn't get much more straight up than that...
...jazz up your dinner parties? With a Möbius-strip-like structure and recessed LED, the Vortexx chandelier by Zaha Hadid Architects for Sawaya & Moroni casts "an endless ribbon of light," according to its designers. Sci-fi fans might think it resembles something out of the movie Tron. And you can check out more of the Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid's work at her Guggenheim retrospective, in New York City until Oct. 25. www.sawayamoroni.it...