Word: manuals
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...aloud what you'd like to pick up at the supermarket and this contraption will print out a list for you. Its motto is "Say it. Print it. Go get it!" Hmm. An earlier iteration of grocery-list makers, the pen-paper combo, didn't require batteries or a manual. And it didn't cost $150. Is this progress or regression...
...that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. "I think there's almost a belligerence-people are frustrated with their manufactured environment," says Ive. "We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we're trying to use." In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole...
...guide to everything there is about sex,” Chen said. “Not on how to have sex per se, but a manual with a certain Ivy League legitimacy...
...resulting tension all over the place, even in your latte. Six years ago, Starbucks moved from manual to semiautomatic espresso machines. The quality was more consistent, but the real reason for the switch was that an employee needed 24 fewer seconds to draw an espresso--a double shot of productivity. "People struggled with it," says Silvia Peterson, director of store operations engineering. The new machine was at odds with the Starbuckian notion of a "handcrafted" beverage. An ice dispenser that would have eliminated time spent scooping was rejected as a step too far. "It was big and QSR-like," says...
...past and present abuses of the term “mental illness” to live down. Here, the label has been applied to a wide range of behaviors that deviate from accepted social norms. Homosexuality, for example, was defined as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) until 1987. Transgendered persons are still labeled mentally ill, although it’s hard to see what danger they pose to themselves or others. While New Mexico human rights laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity, transgendered behavior remains in the latest...