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...want to see the city rebuild and come back,” she said. She pinned a blue button to her shirt—“BROADMOOR BLOCK CAPTAIN”—and sat still to listen to the students...
...week period, 20,000 people downloaded video clips and sample tracks directly from posters in London's main rail terminals. Fifty bus-shelter ads in Britain for the movie Alien vs. Predator prompted 500,000 riders to vote for who would win the celluloid battle by pushing a button on the signs. "That's what I call engagement," says Jean-Luc Decaux, a co-CEO of JCDecaux North America. This month the Paris-based firm will place ads with 19-in. LCD screens in five Chicago bus shelters, allowing riders to watch a movie trailer...
Smith wore earplugs to block the grinding sound of the MRI and clutched a shutoff button in case the heat got too intense. She never used it. She felt only a little back pain from lying still for so long. Afterward, she "felt immediate relief from the heaviness," she says. "I was amazed." She's symptom free 15 months later...
Digital cameras today have large preview screens. Gone are those hard-to-use tiny buttons and dials and those confusing icons. Replacing them are touch-control screens with plain-English menus. Even sophisticated digital cameras offer a "no brains" mode; the only things you need do are frame the shot and push the button. David Henderson, 62, of Alexandria, Va., remembers his early digital cameras. "They gave you a picture that looked like it was taken off a television set," he recalls. "Today's cameras are so good, they give anybody a chance to be a darn good photographer...
...CampusTap aims to create an online community that “is a virtual mirror of your physical campus,” according to the site’s mission statement. The interface networks multiple blogs by name and keyword tags, and the “Blogcrastinate” button simply “takes you to a random-ass blog,” says Harry I. Ritter ’07, one of CampusTap’s founders (and also a member of the Crimson editorial board). With free registration to anyone with a Harvard e-mail address...