Word: crystalize
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...world, found almost anywhere computers are used. But last week the letters IBM appeared in the pages of the British science journal Nature in an unprecedented form. Two IBM researchers, in a scientific and marketing tour de force, had spelled out their corporate emblem by dragging atoms across a crystal of nickel one at a time. The result: the world's smallest corporate logo, measuring 660 billionths of an inch long...
Until now. Exploiting advances in computer graphics, liquid-crystal technology and extra-wide-format films, a Canadian company has developed a new technique that makes objects pop out of the screen with unprecedented clarity and brilliance and causes no eyestrain. The new technology, called Imax Solido, was created by Imax Systems, the Toronto-based company that makes movies to be shown on screens the size of six-story buildings. The first Solido film, a largely computer-generated extravaganza called Echoes of the Sun that was co-produced by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, opened last week at the Fujitsu Pavilion...
...Dumont has spurned the dark burgundies and jangling reds of most gambling halls in favor of a color scheme heavy on violet, turquoise, melon and, of course, bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down into some overeager gambler's decolletage...
...this would-be Pygmalion is teaching JL's works in Abu Dhabi, where the college was hoping for classes on Dickens or Galsworthy. In a final attempt at revenge, he tries his own hand at fiction but cannot find "the gadget that makes it all work, the crystal, the chip, the formula . . ." Five synonyms later, he desists. The trick...
...Lent season, so I can't eat meat," says Voci, her crystal earrings glinting in the flourescent light. "I had pasta. He had meat. Being Italian, I had pasta...