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We’ve seen shipping containers used for prefab housing before, and now here’s another function to add to the list for the reclaimed industrial wonder units: deployable digital datacenters. SUN Microsystems, a tech company committed to a forward-thinking corporate eco responsibility program, has launched Project Blackbox, a virtualized, mobile, easily-deployable datacenter that delivers a slew of resources- energy, space, and performance efficiencies- to locations as diverse as deserts, disaster zones, even Mars.
Project Blackbox applies Sun’s trademark innovation, network computing infrastructure and HPC expertise to engineer out complexity and provide a better datacenter. The container is essentially a prefab tech center that offers rapid deployment, high-density computing, flexibility, scalability, and economic stimulation at a low cost and maximum efficiency. So far Blackbox has been employed in a variety of contexts- from oil rigs for seismic modeling and windmills to underdeveloped rural areas to offsite corporate locations.
Sun has proven their commitment to both green and humanitarian-focused technology and design initiatives, from their partnership with Architecture for Humanity on the Open Architecture Network to their own corporate commitment, called Eco Responsibility. Here’s a tech company that is on the cutting edge of innovation, striving to be both forward-thinking and responsible.
If you are an Eichler fan, and I know you are, you will certainly dig this long lost footage of the Universal International News from the 1950's. It features Joseph Eichler's X-100 steel prototype home, a mid century marvel with all the modern bells and whistles from 1956.
say wat?
Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock'n'Roll's Last Stand in 60s Hollywood with author Domenic Priore and special guest Michael Stuart-Ware. At Booksmith Sanfrancisco, Ca 7/6/07
Priore shows how this legendary scene (the Byrds, Doors, Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention, etc...) came together, burned briefly but brilliantly, and then fell apart after the Summer of Love. Domenic Priore's remarkable new book evokes a raucous, revolutionary time in American culture. Joining Priore for this special event is Michael Stuart-Ware of LOVE, one of the Los Angeles bands profiled in the book.
priore with gaylord fields on wfmu (stream)
the book on amazon
mimeo. custom printers located in memphis, they take online digital orders up to 10pm eastern time and FE for 8 am next day delivery (international!).
Toio, Archille Castiglioni
1171. Modern “Kiva” Fireplace, c.1960s, white enameled sheet steel, metal trim band marked “Preway”, 41”w x 30”d x 97”h, very good condition 900-1200nice orange one on ebay
fugar fireplace
The band takes center stage, the fans surge forward and the sheer power of the crowd’s excitement amplifies the sound of their favorite songs — providing enough energy, in fact, to move a train.
It could happen in the Crowd Farm, a conceptual design by two graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that seeks to milk the mechanical movement of hundreds or thousands of assembled people to produce electrical power.
In principal, a large-scale version of the setup could harness the collective energy of commuters bustling toward subway stations, shoppers marching through mega malls or fans dancing at a rock concert. Already, the students have shown how the simple act of sitting on a stool can generate enough power to turn on four LED lights.