Prefabricated green home designs capture the imagination - The Vancouver Sun
26 May 2012, 5:04 am
It's a sad thing. Michelle Kaufmann, the princess of building green, über-contemporary, modular homes is in Fiji, struggling with a slow Internet connection and losing her Wi-Fi access because it's starting to rain. Then she apologies before signing off ...

Chen Guangcheng’s “Suffering Beyond imagination” - China Digital Times
26 May 2012, 12:25 am
Largely silent since his departure from China, Chen Guangcheng has begun to speak out in interviews about his detention and escape, reiterating his hopes for an investigation of the Linyi local government and his fears for those he left behind.

Destination imagination students make t-shirts for kids in Haiti - WBIR
25 May 2012, 9:26 pm
Thousands of students gathering in Knoxville from around the world spent part of their day focused on one country Friday. A t-shirt assembly line made close to 1,000 shirts to send to children in Haiti. Destination imagination is a conference drawing ...

ANXIETY AND KIDS: 5 ways to tame monsters under the bed - Toronto Star
25 May 2012, 4:33 pm
Whatever your child fears, chances are good the problem stems from a healthy imagination — and that’s not all bad. There’s a link between anxiety and creativity, says child psychologist Dr. Robin Alter, author of new book Anxiety and the Gift of imagination.

Tales of Mystery and imagination Illustrated by Harry Clarke (PHOTOS) - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 9:16 am
The words of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and imagination" are nothing short of bone-chilling, and they certainly need no visual accompaniment. But a special edition of "Tales," originally published in 1923 and reprinted in 2008, decided ...

Men in Black 3 VFX pros describe “an onion” of imagination - SlashGear
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
This week we got to sit down with the Visual Effects Supervisors from Sony Pictures Imageworks behind Men in Black 3, premiering in the USA tonight. As any Men in Black fanatic knows, the two main characters, J and K, have their single-letter names taken ...

The imagination Engine: Why Next-Gen Videogames Will Rock Your World - Wired News
17 May 2012, 12:32 pm
When Tim Sweeney is out in the world discussing pedestrian things—the sweet tea at a particular barbecue restaurant, say, or the irony of having a hockey team in North Carolina, a place without much naturally occurring ice—part of him seems ...

imagination Technologies: A British technology success story - BBC News
16 May 2012, 5:16 am
One of the cleverest bits of a smartphone is not designed by whizzkids in California, Tokyo or Shenzhen. In fact, it is very likely that the graphics technology in your smartphone or tablet PC was developed in Kings Langley, a small town 30 minutes by ...

Fiji inspires designer's imagination - Fiji Times
15 May 2012, 6:03 pm
BOLLYWOOD designer Devraj Das is drawing inspiration for his costume designs from the islands of Fiji. Mr Das is in the country to provide wardrobe assistance to the movie 3G starring Bollywood heartthrobs Neil Nitin Mukesh and Sonal Chauhan. "The designs ...

Lucid imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark Data - msnbc.com
8 May 2012, 6:55 pm
SAN MATEO, CA — Organizations today have little to no idea how much lost opportunity is hidden in the vast amounts of data they've collected and stored. They have entered the age of total data overload driven by the sheer amount of ...