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Science and Engineering of the Winter Olympics

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NBC and the National Science Foundation (NSF) teamed up to make 16 fun videos about the science and engineering of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. We picked a few favorites, after the jump.

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The London Cloud Rolls In

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If you ever wished to watch the Olympics on a plastic bubble in the sky, your dream may soon come true. A group of engineers, artists and architects, led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have unveiled plans for a Digital Cloud that would seemingly hover over London.

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Video: Cloud over London

A group of engineers, artists and architects have unveiled plans (coinciding with the 2012 London Olympics) for a Digital Cloud that would seemingly hover over London. It’s actually a complex of interconnected, inflatable plastic bubbles connected to the tops of three, 400-foot mesh-like towers. The cloud would be both an observation deck, and a giant LED screen on to which data could be projected.

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