Of State of the Union and playing with democracy
I am not going to start off by saying what President Barack Obama said during his State of the Union address. I am just going to “think out loud” about some of the things the speech involved.
Techspotting: Tokyo Motor Show 2009
Last week in Makuhari Messe, Chiba City, Japan, automakers went mad and launched many new concept cars. Japanese automakers used their home turf advantage and launched seemingly good cars all around, while also focusing on their hybrid lineups. As a biennial event, the Tokyo Motor Show attracts Japanese, German, American and other Asian and European automakers to come and showcase their concept vehicles of the future. With it being one of the motoring world’s top five autoshows, automakers were only too happy to oblige.
Apple gaining in the handheld gaming arena?
Apple, Inc. is at the helm of conquering another area of electronics – the handheld gaming industry. Already a major hit on iPhones and iTouches everywhere, applications are flooding the iTunes App store. Out of the 85,000 now available on the App store, 21,000 are games. A lot of these games are also free, which makes them a very attractive option as an alternate to a handheld video game.
ACE Fall cookout event draws huge crowd, happy engineers
IIT’s Armour College of Engineering (ACE) and its various departments held a massive cookout event last Tuesday in the park next to Engineering 1 building. Attended by a large number of undergraduate and graduate students, the event can be labeled a success, based on the amount of students who were in attendance.
IIT Sustainability Forum 2009 begins
Back from a busy summer, the IIT Office of Sustainability presented their first forum of the academic year 2009 this past Thursday. Organized in the MTCC Ballroom, the semi-formal event attracted a wide mix of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members from various departments and some staff members.
