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Bicknell says that the phones have internal heating devices to prevent the keypad from freezing over during the winter months...
...software allows the University's maintenance specialists to monitor the phones remotely to ensure they are functioning, and an internal heater will keep the keypad from freezing--a problem which occured during last year's harsh winter...
...auto-navigation systems being developed by Rockwell, among others. To use the Rockwell system, which is already available on some Oldsmobiles, the motorist types the address of his destination on a dash-mounted keypad and reads his instructions on an adjoining screen. Using a small computer in the trunk to process signals from the military's satellite global positioning system, the navigator will track the vehicle's progress and regularly update instructions, including the name of the street where the next turn should be made. As the motorist nears the intersection, a computer voice directs him to "turn left...
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...