New Florence. New Renaissance.

"Autodesk's Digital Dreams"

"What do Peter Jackson's digitally reincarnated King Kong, Mercedes-Benz's S-Class luxury sedan, and the yet-to-be-built Freedom Tower in New York City have in common? All were designed with the aid of sophisticated modeling tools from the San Rafael (Calif.) software maker Autodesk."

BusinessWeek

with a picture gallery including the planned Aquatic Center for the 2012 London Olympics

The "Bird's Nest" at the Olympics

Reuters reports on the opening of the spectacular stadium for the Beijing Olympics. Popular Science has a photo gallery.

Photo credit: inhabitat.com

See pictures of the equally impressive Water Cube swimming arena here.

Most Creative Super Bowl ads

Traditionally the show to roll out new ads, BusinessWeek scores the batch from yesterday's game

The full catalog of ads is on the NFL site

Each 30 second ads cost $ 2.7 million, but the close game and the demographics of teams from the Northeast made it the most watched Super Bowl - 97.5 million viewers

Data Center Cabling as Art

The "art gallery" at Pingdom

You will appreciate it more after you contrast with this.

"The Building, Digitally Remastered"

Fascinating new buildings around the world, courtesy of MIT Technology Review. 

And they did not even cover some of the incredible architectures in Shanghai and Dubai.

Popular Science Best Products of 2007

From engineering to gadgets to alternative fuels, Popular Science lists innovations from around the world.

Washable Gadgets

PC Magazine

Washable keyboards, Mobile Phones and more...

"Iconic Pieces of Technology"

Prominent industrial designers discuss, 10 pieces of technology that have influenced the way they think about their work.

Polaroid SX-70, 1972
Atari 2600, 1977
Sony Walkman, 1979
HP 12c Calculator, 1981
Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, 1983
NeXT OS, 1988
Netscape 1994
amazon, 1995
Palm V, 1999
MacBook Pro 17", 2006

Business 2.0: Cool New Products

From an in-home winery to an air taxi, meet Business 2.0's gallery of cool - and useful - products

Mouse-less Navigation

"A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person using a computer to click links, highlight text, and scroll simply by looking at the screen and tapping a key on the keyboard - (using eye tracking)"

MIT Technology Review