And the big gold ball will make you much, much safer. Members of the National Research Council, Canada, and Taiwan's National Science Council inspect the tuned mass damper on the 88th floor of Taipei ...

Taipei 101, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, uses a fascinating piece of engineering called a tuned mass damper—a giant, 660-ton steel pendulum that plays a crucial role in keeping ...

Taipei 101, were protected by a large yellow pendulum at the building’s center that helped absorb the shock. Known as a “tuned mass damper,” the 730-ton steel sphere is suspended between ...

A 730-ton steel ball suspended inside Taiwan's iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper protected the structure during the region's 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week. The ball is visible to the public on the ...

A TMD is a giant ball made of steel or concrete that weighs anywhere ... Typhoon-force winds In 2004, the 1,667-foot-tall Taipei 101 tower was the tallest building in the world.

What’s interesting about the 101 ... Taipei 101 last year (see my photos in the gallery above). The ginormous ball, of which the Burj Dubai has nine, was installed on in-place from 41 discrete ...

The 1,667-foot tall Taipei 101 in Taiwan ... Soudelor hit, the ball and the building put on a show, a real demonstration of how the technology works. The inertia of such a big ball means that ...

It had been almost a month since I'd seen so much overtly Western stuff (all the big name boutiques ... the little drag-on-styrofoam-ball problem, one of the students asked me quietly, "What were you ...

Shohei Ohtani is a global icon, but his star status is about to be on full display in Taiwan. Ohtani's fame knows no boundaries, and now, one of the most celebrated souvenirs in all of baseball ...

Meanwhile, Kazuyuki Katayama, chief representative of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association's Taipei office, said he wants the ball to inspire young people to pursue their dreams and further ...