What a long, strange trip it’s been. When you look back at the history of these little boxes that we spend so much time around, it really opens up a lot of information. From the formation of Hewlett-Packard in 1939 to the release of the iPad in 2010, the folks over at TechKing have put together a pretty extensive infographic of every step in between.
Take a scroll and a trip down random-access memory lane. Click through for the full version.
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An interesting illustration of where we’ve been and, according to Philip Sheldrake, where we’re going.
And of course, it ends with a shameless hard sell from the social news aggregator Taptu. Very well done, nonetheless.
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| I didn't play but I feel the team's pain obviosuly. |
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| We can beat South Africa in naked cricket |
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With tongue firmly in cheek, my friend Srinivas, brother of Harsha Bhogle, presents the Ten Commandments for IPL aspirants.
Read. And make your own assumptions/conclusions.
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Be sure and check out our previous infographics: The Worlds Most Obscure Top Level Domains, Comparing the Two Fastest Selling Gadgets of All Time, Chinese: The New Dominant Language of the Internet, and The Great Rise of the Mobile Web.
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I think everybody who has ever written code must recognize this:
via 9gag.
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Perhaps proving that money can’t buy taste, an Indian billionaire will soon occupy what is being described as the world’s most expensive house. Antilia1 is estimated to have cost up to $70million (US) to construct2 and manages to squeeze 27 totally incongruous floors into a 173m tower which could accommodate sixty conventional storeys.
Located in Mumbai, India’s most densely populated city, Antilia was constructed for Mukesh Ambani – the world’s fifth-richest person with an estimated wealth of $43bn.
While you might expect that such a large building (over 37,000 square metres of living space) might be intended to accommodate an extended family, Ambani will live there with just 5 other people – his wife, three children, and his mother. Their every whim will be catered to by a staff of around 600 people!
The residential floors were designed such that each is totally different from the others, as can clearly be seen from the exterior.
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Many of the features of this residence are just staggering:
While we don’t have Street View to give us a closer look, Google Earth does allow us to go back in time and see a number of images of Antilia’s construction over the past few years.
Construction of this ostentatious abode hasn’t been without controversy, perhaps understandably in a city where millions of people live in abject poverty.
The tower stands on land that was intended for construction of an orphanage. A modest legal payment took care of this inconvenience. The helipad on the roof also contravenes city and naval regulations, but this doesn’t seem to stopped it from being put in place.
You can read more about Antilia at Wikipedia, while this blog post has much more detail and a number of pictures of the interior.
The building was named after a mythical Atlantic island. ↩
NOT the $1billion+ originally mentioned here, and as is widely reported elsewhere. See discussion in comments below. ↩
Locations: India / Categories: Buildings, Structures, Weirdness
