Word: embeddedness
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Unlike the automated cars currently ferrying passengers through airports and industrial areas in Amsterdam and Hamburg, the CyberCar can function without following embedded road tracers: it follows a preprogrammed route, and a laser sweep pegged to its front end allows it to avoid or stop in front of obstacles. The...
Last spring Intel commissioned a surfboard shaper in North Devon, England, to design a board with an embedded tablet PC. Why? So Intel could tout its Centrino processor at beach festivals around the globe. Equipped with wi-fi, the Wireless Technology Surfboard enables the surfer to send e-mail, shoot...
How do you steer this thing?" passengers might wonder as they step into the cartoon-like vehicle. It's a golf cart?sized car with seats and a dashboard that accelerates, turns and stops, but it has no steering wheel - and no driver. The CyberCar uses the latest in computer...
In the Carpenter Center’s basement theater hangs a tapestry designed by Le Corbusier for the building. A little red bird sits at the bottom, its head perpetually tilted towards the theater screen. The bird is one of what Huyghe calls the “missing pieces of...
Subjectivity. Most newspapers like to clearly differentiate between fact and opinion. If you were flipping through The Crimson and saw my column embedded somewhere in the news section, you would probably be a little weirded out. At the Herald, however, columnists regularly park right next to news stories.