Word: cursors
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...nightmarish, especially when you're on the road and you haven't made friends with the techie at the projector. You can kiss those jitters goodbye with the GyroTransport, a new toy from Thomson/RCA's Gyration. The company is known for its wireless "air mouse," which moves the cursor when waved in the air. The GyroTransport (available late spring for $200; www.gyration.com) uses the same technology, letting you point-and-click through slides with a flick of a key-chain-size mouse. But here's the coolest feature: the gadget's receiver holds 1 GB of internal flash memory, plenty...
...other amusements, much of it free. But while you may not spend any money, you could end up paying in other ways. That is, by downloading the freebies, you could be opening the door to a host of other things-extra programs bundled in with that candy-cane cursor or animated elf, that, if left unchecked, are likely to wreak havoc on your computer and kill your celebratory mood...
...able to deliver on the promises we make.” In addition to creating online photo albums, facebook.com users can identify, or “tag,” the people who appear in their pictures. This new feature projects a white box around a person when the cursor is moved over that person’s name in the photo caption. Facebook.com is the 10th most trafficked site on the internet, with over 8.5 million unique visitors in September alone, according to Hughes. Although other networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace have long allowed users to upload...
...scientists had 11 volunteers play a simple video game that required them to reach for objects on the screen with a mouse-controlled cursor. What the volunteers didn't realize was that the game sometimes introduced a slight bias to the cursor's motion, forcing them to adjust their movements. Half the group slept between sessions and the other half did not. Among the sleepers, the part of the brain that was learning to compensate for the bias while awake turned out to have the largest slow waves during sleep. "The bigger the slow waves were in that part...
...ramifications of “Newlyweds” with roommates in a highly animated and engaged way for hours on end (is Jessica Simpson just playing dumb?), taking delight in Brain Break as the unabashed highlight of an otherwise frustrating night staring at a blank screen and a blinking cursor (who knew PB&J on stale white bread could taste so good, or sustain interest for so long...