Word: keypad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Timmy is a calculating little guy, the creation of calculating big guys. Like everyone else in the movie, he appears to have been morphed into existence by people who aren't writing or directing in the usual sense of those words but are operating a computer whose keypad is marked with a few simple signs: sentiment, sweetness, lovable mischievousness. The coldness with which these filmmakers pursue warmth is -- no other word for it -- bone chilling...
...just started accepting the card," says the 33-year-old education consultant. She shuns checks too, having signed up for a new computer service called ScanFone that lets her pay her credit-card, utility and 17 other bills in just 10 minutes by tapping a few numbers on the keypad of a high-tech telephone that sends instructions to the company's central computer. "I guess you don't have to see your money to have it or spend it," she says. "It's a little weird, but dollars aren't clean anyway...
...some 250 ongoing projects involving NCR and AT&T units, focusing on such crucial areas as messaging, network computing, wireless communications and desktop video. The merged companies, for instance, are developing a cash machine that identifies customers by voice rather than by a numerical code punched on a keypad. NCR has been given the key to the famed Bell Laboratories research center. Says Stead: "It's like a kid being let loose in a candy store...
...Innovations in Scottsdale, Arizona, abandons conventional keys altogether, replacing them with padded handrests and little finger wells. Each finger can produce five different characters by pressing forward, back, left, right or straight down. Infogrip, Inc., of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, goes one step further. It makes a - seven-key "chordic" keypad that works like a court stenographer's machine: the operator presses a different combination of keys to produce each letter...
...disturb snoozers. More important, passengers will be able to transmit high-quality computer or telefax data from their seats. Travelers carrying laptop computers need simply plug into the standard AT&T RJ-11 connector in the armrest; laptopless passengers can use the system's built-in keypad to punch out a message, displayed on the video screen, and send...