The ARISE team, has accepted the AUVSI's 10th AUV competition challenge by redesigning last year's AUV vehicle completely.

Talk to Origin Systems' Starr Long about ULTIMA ONLINE and one word dominates the conversation: "Cool." Long, the game's associate producer, is justifiably jazzed about ULTIMA ONLINE'S impending release. Few online games can match the scope of ULTIMA'S Britannia, which will include 16 cities, a virtual ecology, a banking system, and just about everything else you'd find in the real world as well as the occasional orc lord, zombie, and dragon.

2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of reflections and two tone colors. This style is used less and less, and some new design trends are starting to emerge (the vintage style seems to be catching on)

The 2007 contest is over, check back next year for another chance to win!

For a site In the Pudong area of the city, the design proposal was for a relatively low building of 25 stories. A unique and arresting form and a functional plan with practical cores were features of the building design.

The purpose of conventional appliances for space heating and cooling is to bridge the difference between desirable targets of indoor environmental conditions and outdoor conditions which fall outside those targets.

Sim Van der Ryn has been a leader in sustainable architecture for over 40 years. As well as creating a portfolio of inspiring green designs -- notably the 1977 Bateson Building in Sacramento -- he is also a teacher and an author. His most recent book "Design for Life" traces his ancestral and ecological design roots. Principal Voices talked to Van der Ryn about the passion which continues to consume his life.