Word: objectional
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...control by moving the big, spiderlike exoskeleton I'm wearing. As I manipulate the ball, the fingertips of the CyberGrasp sense the force feedback via a network of artificial tendons. I "feel" the ball as I bat it through cyberspace. There are flaws: the hand sometimes goes through the object. But it's a thrill touching something that isn't there...
...Smart objects are defined here as objects that can sense and react to the world around them and that can communicate with other smart objects via smart networks. A human is said to "own" a smart object upon purchase, except for those rights retained by the manufacturer and stated more or less clearly in the purchasing contract. Neither the owner nor manufacturer may be held responsible for smart objects that run amok without warning and no smart object can be disassembled without a lengthy trial with good lawyers on all sides...
...objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip for the whole world...
...Taiwan's rigorous academic meritocracy, good students are praised and respected; great students become the object of local pride. A-Bian was the greatest student Tainan county had ever seen, his intelligence and perspicacity as obvious and tangible as an Olympic sprinter's speed. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish - Larry Fuente's "Derby Racer, 1975." Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object - an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...