Step inside an “extreme design hotel” and you enter a designer's dream that, for a while at least, becomes your reality. Clean white lines and copycat minimalism are no longer the makings of hip ...

Clean white lines and copycat minimalism are no longer the makings of hip hotels; today, individualism is in. "I think it's something that breaks from the norm and is visually provocative, and it ...

The beatings my laptop and handheld take on the road have nothing on the Iraqi desert. We're subjecting delicate computing devices to evermore hostile environments. Whether it's a public kiosk ...

If you're a TRON fan, then you've probably been pretty happy with the TRON-themed accessories that have been released the last few months. You may have even given some serious thought into buying your ...

In August 2023, Prof. Ranger was invited to participate in a NSF-funded conference on the topic of Extreme Design (XD). XD is an emerging topic that will blend multiple disciplines and tackle extreme ...

High-energy particle accelerators are helping researchers investigate big questions about the nature of matter and the origins of the universe. Typical experiments involve carefully controlled ...