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632-Meter Shanghai Tower Will Spin Towards The Sky [Shanghai Tower]

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2008-12-02 01:30:00 by Elaine Chow in Gizmodo
 
...Tower, set to reach a whopping 632 meters by the time it's completed, broke ground over the weekend. With its zenith a full 140 meters higher than the Mori Building (currently the world's highest observatory ), it'll grab the honors of the tallest building in China The Shanghai Tower is organized as nine cylindrical buildings stacked one on...
 
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The True Story of the Hurricane Katrina Lightning-Laser Memorial and the Peg-Leg Biologist [Lightning Laser Tower]

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2008-07-30 12:00:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...tower that will literally seize a hurricanes force, bottle it up and hurl it angrily back into the sky. Its intended as a memorial for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Daviswhose official role at MIT is research affiliate associate in the biology departmentplans to name the tower "Call Me Ishmael." I ask him why, but before I finish the...
 
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Fatal bandwidth: 6 cell tower deaths in 5 weeks

2008-06-08 15:18:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...tower, according to a report in Wireless Estimator, an online newsletter that covers the communications construction industry Falls from high towers are not unheard of in this business. But for more than four months between Dec. 5 and April 11 the industry was fatality free Then in April, as Wireless Estimator president Craig Lekutis notes...
 
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Ericsson unveils wind-powered concept for its award-winning Tower Tube

2008-10-09 10:11:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Tower Tube. Working with Vertical Wind AB and Uppsala University in Sweden, Ericsson is developing the concept as part of its commitment to sustainable and cost-efficient solutions that help bring communications to all The wind-powered Tower Tube takes the energy-lean design of Ericsson's award-winning* original Tower Tube one step further...
 
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Capital Gate Tower is the Worlds Most Crooked Building in the World!

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2008-10-31 02:51:44 by max in zedomax.com
...Tower of Pisa It doesnt surprise me though, its about time modern architecture proves to be somewhat better than stuff that were built over a century ago. Not that I dont like the Leaning Tower but its always great to have something new and better I just hope this Capital Gate Tower lasts more than a century like the Leaning Tower of Pisa....
 
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Dying for 3G? 6 cell-tower technicians fall to death in 5 weeks

2008-05-29 19:02:38 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...tower deaths is being attributed to the breakneck rollout of 3G cellular services, which require equipment on the tall installations to be upgraded. Fortune's Apple blog tallies five deaths in only 12 days, following months of accident-free operation April 12: A 34-year-old cell tower technician from Oklahoma man died after falling 150 feet...
 
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The Learning Tower

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2008-09-13 13:27:22 by Lisalu in Gizmos for Babies
...Tower, little ones can now be active participants in the everyday activities of the family The Little Partners Learning Tower features a sturdy, wooden construction. It is a great piece of baby furniture because it has a no tip design. The Learning Tower features four-sided design and features a roomy platform. The platform fosters both child...
 
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Hyundai to Build World's Tallest Elevator Test Tower

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2008-02-22 06:57:43 by HASH0x8b26118 in Fareastgizmos.com
...tower, a 183 m-high facility near the company's R&D center building inside the main office complex in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province. The company aims to begin operating the tower late this year. The world's tallest elevator test tower will be built for performance tests of super-speed elevators that can move faster than 1 km per minute. Worlds...
 
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The Eiffel Tower's New Celebratory Party Hat

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2008-03-20 15:30:25 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...Tower's 120th anniversary as one of the world's most recognizable phallic landmarks, it's going to don a temporary party hat designed by architectural firm Serero. The design is based on a generative script, creating branches out of the primary structure of the tower. Inspired by the structural concept of Eiffel of three-dimensional cross...
 
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