A coffee machine for Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture enthusiasts will see the uncanny resemblance between the Cascade coffee maker and Frank Lloyd Wright’s undebatably iconic Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. The drip filter is split into three parts with water streaming down from upper compartments to lower ones, forming miniature waterfalls on the way that bring a beautiful sense of drama to the coffee-making process.

The designer’s aim was to make a coffee machine so uniquely sculptural that it became the most eye-catching attractive thing in the kitchen. I say job well done!

Designer: Connor Canavan

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Cray unleashes 100 petaflop XC30 supercomputer with up to a million Intel Xeon cores

Cray launches XC30 supercomputer behemoth, scales to 100 petaflops, a million Xeon cores

Cray has just fired a nuclear salvo in the supercomputer wars with the launch of its XC30, a 100 petaflop-capable brute that can scale up to one million cores. Developed in conjunction with DARPA, the Cascade-codenamed system uses a new type of architecture called Aries interconnect and Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors to easily leapfrog its recent Titan sibling, the previous speed champ. That puts Cray well ahead of rivals like China's Tianhe-2, and the company will aim to keep that edge by supercharging future versions with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. High-end research centers have placed $100 million worth of orders so far (though oddly, DARPA isn't one of them yet), and units are already shipping in limited numbers -- likely by the eighteen-wheeler-full, from the looks of it.

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