Word: fingerprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What stunned the scientists was where the peaks and dips of the graph fell. A trained astronomer can read a star's spectrum the way a forensic scientist reads a fingerprint, spotting almost at a glance the presence of an element like magnesium or carbon. But on this spectrum, something was drastically amiss. "It looks like somebody crumpled the spectrum," says Djorgovski. "It's not that we see things that we know about but are in the wrong place. It's simply that we don't know what they...
...picking up the gun, the owner's middle finger covers a tiny red button, activating the fingerprint unit on the side or the grip. The finger also wraps over the print sensor, which then scans the fingerprint...
...image-processor chip captures the image from the sensor and, with the memory chip and circuit board, identifies the fingerprint and unlocks...
...fingerprint-enabled handgun, being developed by Oxford Micro Devices, will use a miniature electronic fingerprint-capture-and- verification device built into the handle of a gun to identify the owner and prevent unauthorized users...
...first of these was the idea of landscape as epic, spiritual and transcendental. The cluster of feelings surrounding American landscape had come directly into modern art from 19th century images of sacred wilderness--God's fingerprint, there in the Catskills or the Grand Canyon. This would be faithfully preserved by photographers, like Ansel Adams at Yosemite. But 20th century painters from Dove and Hartley through Pollock conveyed them into more modern idioms, often with great power and poignancy. Landscape, in fact, was the matrix in which most of the impulses of American abstract art, except for its weaker strand...