Word: headset
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...evening out, when the single man of the future says to his date, "I had a nice time. I'll call you" (I predict that men will still be using this line), the woman to whom he is speaking will immediately hear in her headset: "What he means is that while he thinks you are attractive, he's concerned that you already have expectations of him that he will never be able to meet. He's associating you with his needy, castrating mother because she had the same hair color as yours...
...Coetzee in Lusaka. But when he refused to pay the duty on the package, it was sent to Mlangeni's Johannesburg law firm, falsely listed as the return address. Intrigued by a tape marked EVIDENCE OF HIT SQUADS, the lawyer took the tape player home and put on the headset that had been thoughtfully included. A few seconds later its right earphone exploded, apparently triggered by a sound signal...
...that was before technology lent him a hand. Watch him now. Taking a seat at his word processor, Bristol dons a headset with a microphone and starts to dictate. "This is a test of my new computer program," he says. As he talks, his words pop up on the screen. "This program allows me to dictate my weworts." Bristol spots the spelling mistake and grimaces. "Oops," he says into the microphone. The machine understands the word oops, backs up one word and automatically goes into spell-check mode. Five words sounding like weworts appear on the screen, including...
...slightest movement of the digits. A head-mounted display that looks like an oversize skin-diving mask is called the EyePhone. Built-in headphones provide stereo sound, and a pair of liquid-crystal-display screens creates stereoscopic images that give the illusion of three dimensions. Both glove and headset are equipped with electromagnetic sensors that track changes in position and orientation. For computer power, the equipment is linked by cable to a pair of Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations -- one for each eye -- capable of creating up to 30 color images a second...
With the score of Saturday night's Harvard-Brown men's basketball game 42-32 at halftime, Harvard Coach Roby was in trouble. In football, a lost headset or clipboard can spell disaster for a coach. In baseball, stolen chewing tobacco always spells doom. But Harvard had lost this season's secret weapon: the second half...