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Submission + - The World's Largest Ferris Wheel will be in New York Soon (expensiveplaces.com)

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on Sunday September 30, 2012 @09:29AM

justelite writes: "It is an old trend to build "The World's larget..." something. Now, The New York come in this race with The World's Largest Ferris Wheel: 630-foot tall, thirty-six capsules, each carrying up to 40 passengers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said “The New York Wheel will be an attraction unlike any other in New York City even unlike any other on the planet.”
Starneth BV forcast that "The Wheel will accommodate up to 1,440 people per ride, welcoming as many as 30,000 visitors per day and an anticipated 4.5 million visitors per year.""

Submission + - The Killing of Wi-Fi

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on Sunday March 04, 2007 @05:04PM

justelite writes: "John C. Dvorak from PCMagazine write a good article about next strategy of American cell-phone-service companies . From article: "There is mounting evidence that the cellular service companies are going to do whatever they can to kill Wi-Fi. After all, it is a huge long-term threat to them. We've seen that the route to success in America today is via public gullibility and general ignorance. And these cell-phone-service companies are no dummies.""

Submission + - Sketch your furniture in the air

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on Saturday October 28, 2006 @06:24AM

justelite writes: "Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialize free hand sketches. "

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