The laser one looked fantastically sci-fi, but it's too complex. Tokomak stuff is going to be the way forward, I give KSTAR half-a-decade before they can sustain :)
By way of coincidence, I was emailing Omron yesterday, in connection with their fine line of quantified-self products.
And yes, of course I spotted it. I am steeped in the branding semiotics of technical instrument companies of all kinds.
Speaking of which, are you following http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2009_02_01_archive.asp ? He seems to be emitting a book very slowly piecewise.
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Date: 2009-02-17 10:37 pm (UTC)The laser one looked fantastically sci-fi, but it's too complex. Tokomak stuff is going to be the way forward, I give KSTAR half-a-decade before they can sustain :)
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Date: 2009-02-17 10:43 pm (UTC)More bolt-porn here:
http://www.nfri.re.kr/data/kstar_assem.pdf
I want page 11 for my house.
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Date: 2009-02-17 10:57 pm (UTC)I found a medley of small internal pics of it in action on Google, which went into the Wallpapers folder :)
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Date: 2009-02-17 10:25 pm (UTC)And yes, of course I spotted it. I am steeped in the branding semiotics of technical instrument companies of all kinds.
Speaking of which, are you following http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2009_02_01_archive.asp ? He seems to be emitting a book very slowly piecewise.