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Taipei skyscraper deemed tallest: While we waxed poetic about their elevators, Taipei 101 was certified today as the world's tallest building. The 101-story skyscraper is 184 feet taller than the previous record-holder, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Taipei 101 also claims a hat trick for having the highest ...

Taipei gets world's largest Wi-Fi grid: This makes that St. Louis plan look almost quaint by comparison. It's the love of this kind of connectivity that is driving Taipei city planners to build what they say will be the world's biggest "Wi-Fi" network, making cheap, wireless Internet access available almost ...

Extreme Machines: World's Fastest Elevator: I was watching a great History Channel series on skyscrapers which included a sidebar on the elevators at one of the world's tallest buildings: Taipei 101. The 1667-ft., 101-story building has 67 elevator units, including two that service the 89th-floor observation deck and qualify as ...

About 18 months ago, we talked about the elevators at Taipei 101, the world's tallest building. They go 37 m.p.h. vertically, which is somewhat insane. Little did I know, Gadgetopia has a Taiwanese correspondent. Peter Shen went to the building, and took a video in the elevator as it went ...

I'm sure Deane will appreciate this site. TONS of cool images, like this one of Taipei 101. As usual, there's something for everyone on the internet: there's a meetup locator for skyscraper enthusiasts.

Dubai tower is now world s tallest : An unfinished skyscraper in Dubai has unofficially become the tallest building in the world. Developers of a 1,680-foot (512 meters) skyscraper still under construction in oil-rich Dubai has claimed that it has become the world s tallest building, surpassing Taiwan s Taipei 101 which has dominated ...

Digital Hubris: Apple's Tablet Computer Might Finally Be That Link Between Your PC and TV "Real computers have keyboards," Steve has said a zillion times, and he'll mean it right up to the moment he changes his mind. That moment appears to be coming soon. Quanta, the Taiwanese company that ...

Soon: LCD TVs From Dell?: Again with the Gateway strategy tie-in. "Dell is expected to break into the consumer electronics market this year with the release of a line of LCD television sets, according to an analyst in Taipei. ... The move into the market for LCD TVs marks a ...

Telecoms lobby against public wireless networks: While we love hearing about community wi-fi projects like those in St. Louis and Taipei, telecommunications companies don't. Providing this service is what they make money doing, and they're actively opposing many community wi-fi projects across the country. A chief complaint: a city can ...

I m kind of a building / engineering / architecture groupie, and I m starting to learn how Dubai is Ground Zero these days for magnificent buildings. There s simply nothing they can t or won t build. The picture above is a rendering of the Burj Dubai, which is currently under construction. It s ...