Word: wearers
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...Drechsler, in one the most recognizable and unique styles in the medium, combines obsessive attention to certain details but not others. She loathes negative space, filling every millimeter of every panel with shading or detail. Clothing always rolls and ripples around the wearer's body thanks to multiple layers of shading. And yet, strikingly, she sometimes pays no attention to such traditional techniques as foreshortening or horizon lines. More strangely, rather than the usual black and white she has chosen a bizarre color scheme that evokes mint chocolate chip ice cream. Like suburbia itself, this peculiar mix of the natural...
...Strength in Bubbles New inflatable muscles could provide enhanced mobility to the elderly and infirm. Developed at Tokyo's Science University by Hiroshi Kobayashi, whose previous research focused on lifelike robotic faces, this Lycra suit employs tiny air canisters to inflate rubber muscles that boost the strength of the wearer's actual muscles. Pressure sensors detect the wearer's movements and direct the suit accordingly. AUTO SECURITY Remote Control Car thieves beware. A student in Bangalore, India has devised a system that can remotely immobilize a car after it has been stolen. The N-S Aero-Stop uses a transmitter...
...Although he has been wearing glasses for over two years, Will C. Benstein ’03 recently told friends, “I don’t see myself as a glasses-wearer.” Which is funny, because people who know Benstein see him as a four-eyed geek...
...waist, the other across the chest and right shoulder. It is meant to dissolve the differences between rich and poor - though the first piece is usually secured by a money belt, and some are definitely weightier than others - while also giving a sense of mortality by reminding the wearer of a shroud. Women wear long robes with their faces and hands uncovered. We comprise an uncountable mass, and there are many, many more outside waiting to take our place...
...earlier stories Abe has a superhero alter-ego, Captain Oblivion, who foils evil plots like the distribution of "blinkers," a device that allows the wearer to "stick ruthlessly to one narrow path in life." But by midway through the book both Capt. "O" and the futuristic setting recede in favor of meditative free-association comix and thoughtful travelogues. One of the pleasures of reading the book is in watching how the artist evolves from creating whimsical spoofs with a touch of poetic consciousness to the exact inverse of that...