I don’t understand how the fire hydrant can be underground.. won’t it take too long to get the water if there’s an actual fire? Very likely that I’m missing something… Anyone have any insight?
chinese fire hydrant
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/03/chinese-fire-hydrant/
China aims to move away from OEM
Interesting article with growth of Chinese design and moving from OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to ODM (original design manufacturers) to more importantly, OBM (original brand manufacturers). China’s design industry experts are calling for greater government support in order to help the country’s manufacturers raise the competitiveness with innovation. Zhu Tao, president of China Industrial Design [...]
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/02/china-aims-to-move-away-from-oem/
Why travel? It makes you smarter.
Jonah Lehrer wrote a thoughtful article in the San Francisco Panorama about the cognitive benefits of travel. Travel is not only for business or pleasure; travel allows people to think differently about problems and enhances creativity. Why do we travel? It’s not the flying I mind–I will always be awed by the physics that get a fat metal [...]
http://tiffanywan.com/blog/2010/02/why-travel/