Word: tabletops
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...Microsoft-designed tabletop has an overhead camera that records a patient's pill intake. There is also a projector that beams down a checkerboard image, allowing a virtual game between friends in different homes. Being tested: having the camera record the board moves and then feeding those images to a computer, which analyzes the times it takes a player to make a move and the speed and dexterity with which he shifts the checkers, to spot changes that might indicate a deterioration in brain functions...
DESIGN-HAPPY wunderstore Target has brought yet more affordable home-décor must-haves to the market this month with the introduction of a new collection by Victoria Hagan, a New York City--based interior designer. Victoria Hagan Perfect Pieces features tabletop accessories and furniture inspired by Hagan's love of country style, including signature details like brass fittings and studded nail trims. In-store products include mirrors and pillows, while target.com carries other items like trunks and coffee tables. The name of the collection comes from Hagan's idea that small changes with small pieces can make a room...
...threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers, and Jerusalem believes it thwarted at least two attempts by his fighters to do just that. Army brass had urged the political leadership to respond with precisely the kind of campaign Olmert has initiated, and Israeli forces practiced just such an operation in a tabletop exercise as recently as two months ago. After the soldiers' kidnapping, Olmert, according to one of his ministers, presented his Cabinet with the military's plans and after a discussion said he was approving the action. The Cabinet unanimously backed him: it was time to hit back, hard. The goal...
...innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this end, we may only speak in Chinese, read Chinese, write Chinese for the entirety of the program; the punishment for being caught speaking English more than once is nothing short of dismissal...
...Julian Hoff, my longtime mentor, told me this would be one of the most indelible experiences of my life. As usual, he was right. I started the half-day process sitting across a table from two examiners, both senior neurosurgeons. Laid out on the tabletop between us were models of a skull, a head and a spine, as well as several laptop computers filled with brain-scan images. After a quick handshake, the fun began...