Word: eyeglass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furniture comes in a dazzling variety of colors and shapes. There are orange, red, green and yellow bookcases, Parsons tables and nesting tables. There are stools that can be converted in an instant into planters or round tables. There are chairs resembling eggshells, wombs and opened eyeglass cases. Some can be stretched into bench-couches; others resemble human molars but are considerably more comfortable...
...legs, the quadriplegic is usually condemned to inertia. But his sentence to stasis may soon be lifted by a switch that enables him to control a motorized wheelchair by eye movements alone. Manufactured by Hayes International Corp., and originally intended for use by astronauts, the Sight Switch uses eyeglass-mounted sensors to measure the intensity of light reflected from the whites of the operator's eyes. The sensors then transmit their readings to a computerized box on the wheelchair...