• design,  Google Glass

    Designer Ivy Ross to head Google Glass

    Designer and Marketer, IVY Ross is the new head of the Google Glass project at GoogleX. Here is the open letter sent to Glass Explorers. A letter to our Glass Explorers, from the head of Glass My name is Ivy Ross, and I’m excited to be joining Google on Monday, May 19 to lead our Glass efforts. With your help, I look forward to answering the seemingly simple, but truly audacious questions Glass poses: Can technology be something that frees us up and keeps us in the moment, rather than taking us out of it? Can it help us look up and out at the world around us, and the…

  • Uncategorized,  VectorSpect

    World’s most sustainable building can now be found in Dubai

    http://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/environment/world-s-most-sustainable-building-can-now-be-found-in-dubai-1.1197814 Dubai: If Dubai is home to the tallest, the largest, and everything else worthy of the record books, it can also have the “most sustainable” commercial building in the world — The Change Initiative (TCI) — on Shaikh Zayed Road. TCI is a 4,000-square-metre shop that provides sustainable solutions in Dubai. It has secured the highest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum rating from the US Green Building Council (GBC), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sustainable buildings worldwide. TCI achieved 107 points out of 110, making it the most sustainable commercial building in the world. The record was previously held by Pixel, a four-level building in…

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