Top 10 Tallest Buildings in the World

The world is a beautiful place in more ways than one.With the number of people living on earth growing exponential, there’s no room for cities to expand on the ground, especially in the big overcrowded areas, and that’s why architects are planning many ways of expanding through the air. No, we’re not talking about flying cities, just about skyscrapers which are architectural and engineering marvels that rise hundreds of meters into the air, overlooking all others.  Here is a list of the Top 10 Tallest Buildings of the modern world. 10. Jin Mao Tower, China The landmark supertall skyscarper is situated in Pudong, Shanghai, China. The tower features offices, restaurants and observation decks. At the time of completion it was 5th tallest building in the world by roof and 7 th tallest by pinnacle  height. Jin Mao Tower is a part of Pudong skyline and is right next to Shanghai World Financial Center. Height: 421 meters or 1,380 ft Roof height: 370.0 meters or 1,214 ft Floors: 88 Floor area: 278,707 m sq Completion: 1998 Designed by: Skdimore, Owings and Merrill. 9. Trump International Tower & Hotel, United States Trump International Hotel and Tower also known as Trump Tower Chicago and simply Trump Tower is named after its owner Donald Trump who is a real estate developer. It is situated in downtown Chicago Illinois. This condo-hotel sits adjacent to Chicago river and has a four or five star rated restaurant &  it includes,from the ground up, retail space ,spa, a parking garage, a hotel, and condominiums and is currently the tenth tallest building in the world. Height: 423 meters or 1,388 ft Roof Height: 356 meters or 1170 ft high Floors: 96 Completion: 2009 Estimated cost: USD $ 847 million Floor area: 2,600,000 sq ft Designed by: Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease

Naked Eye 3D Display Using Integral Imaging Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:05 AM PDT Presented at the recent CEDEC 2010 conference,Toshiba’s naked-eye 3D display using integral imaging, which enables 3D images to be seen from 9 distinct viewing angles without requiring 3D glasses.The company hopes to roll out the technology commercially in the near future in to enhance not only television viewing but the world of video games as well. The conventional frame sequential method, which requires 3D glasses, utilizes the parallax between two images for the left and right eyes. By contrast, integral imaging can reproduce 3D images even without special glasses, by producing lots of rays of light projected at different angles. Due to the multiple parallax, the picture seen changes as the user’s viewpoint moves. A feature of this system is that it causes very little eye fatigue, even if used for a long time. “This display is achieved by using a lenticular lens sheet on a high-definition LCD panel. This method uses images from nine directions to create one 3D picture. Technically, this is called a nine-parallax 3D image, and there are nine pixels underneath each lens. This creates a 3D perspective by enabling each pixel to be observed through the lens from a different direction.” Because integral imaging produces a multi-parallax display using spatial division, one problem is that the resolution of the on screen 3D image is correspondingly lower than the displays pixel count. But this problem can be solved, by combining the system with a super-high-definition screen using low-temperature polysilicon technology. The result is a high-resolution, large-screen 3D display. “One problem is that it’s necessary to create content, such as images taken from nine directions. So the question is how to minimize the burden of creating that content. Also, as the display is made smaller and viewed from closer up, it becomes more difficult to design. So I think that, from now on, we need to keep working on these issues.”