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Motion sensing has found its way into remote controls, laptop computers and video-game accessories. Now it's in cell phones too. Recently Samsung debuted the SCH-S310, the first mobile with "3-D movement recognition." Wave it in the air, and it interprets your wandlike gestures. In normal use, shaking the phone twice ends a call. Draw a 3, and it types the digit. Make an X, and the phone generates the voice response "no." If you're listening to music on the built-in MP3 player, you can jerk the phone to the right to skip...
Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. “DJ Spooky,” channeled lightning with a laptop before a sold-out crowd in Sanders Theatre Friday night. He edited Griffith’s silent epic—live—interspersing dance clips from choreographer Bill T. Jones, projecting the remixed footage onto a massive triptych backdrop, and all the while turning tables to produce a tuneful blues base...
...other points, Miller leaves the Birth print surprisingly intact. In part, this was—as Miller conceded afterwards—because his trusty laptop crashed, forcing him to let Birth run uninterrupted while he hit control-alt-delete. Meanwhile, the 136 Harvard alumni who died fighting for the Union—and whose names are engraved inside Memorial Hall—might have been turning in their graves, as Griffith’s glorification of the Confederate “Lost Cause” played in its original form for three full minutes...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to MAC to investigate the theft of an unsecured and unattended brown laptop carrying bag, silver eyeglasses, a silver palm pilot with black keyboard. The stolen items were valued...
...officer in charge does not know who the alleged culprit is and thus cannot subconsciously influence the witness. That can pose a problem in small towns, where the officers usually know everyone, including the suspect. Minneapolis police captain Richard Stanek's solution is to put mug shots on a laptop computer and allow the witness to view them privately. Iowa State University psychology professor Gary Wells, who has been advocating sequential lineups for almost 30 years, contends that they will be the dominant procedure across the country in five to seven years. "It's been a slow awakening," he says...