Furry dice.Gizmodo is the online gadget (1) Slang for any hardware device, typically small. Synonymous with "gizmo." (2) A mini application that resides on a computer desktop or personal home page, typically found in the Windows environment. guide at www.gizmodo.com. 'So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural', preens the sidebar (1) A Windows Vista desktop panel that holds mini applications (gadgets) such as a calendar, calculator, stock ticker and Vonage phone dialer. It is the Windows counterpart to the Dashboard in the Mac. See Windows Vista and gadget. . Recently its contents included a see-through potty, a self-playing guitar and the $100 A Pod PC system case which turned out to be an expensive way of subsidising Jonathan 'Apple' Ives rip-offs. I mention all this because if you go to a sub-section of the site at http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/household/dustyrelief-032829.php you will find French practice, R & Sie's Dusty Relief. This is the gubbins involved in the skin for a proposed Bangkok art museum. It involves electrically charged wires which attract ambient Surrounding. For example, ambient temperature and humidity are atmospheric conditions that exist at the moment. See ambient lighting. pollutants--like iron filings Iron filings are very small pieces of iron that look like a dark powder. They are very often used in magnetism demonstrations, to show magnetic lines. Since iron is a magnetic material, it will align itself with the magnetic lines of a magnet in the same way a compass will align to a magnet except that it ends up looking like fur. Almost. It also looks like what you shake out of the cylinder of your Dyson. In brightly coloured Bangkok, an all-grey furry fur·ry adj. fur·ri·er, fur·ri·est 1. Consisting of or similar to fur. 2. a. Covered with, wearing, or trimmed with fur. b. Covered with a furlike substance. 3. building probably makes a lot of visual sense, especially when it is also cleaning the local air. But I'm not sure what the sustainability police would say about all that electricity trickling around the skin. And what happens in a power failure? Who cares? it's a lovely idea. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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