Word: gloves
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...should have had Sacco's shot...it went off my glove," Hughes said, ignoring the difficulty of touching a slapshot taken from 10 feet away. "McEachern took a great shot," added Hughes, understating again...
Inside, the feel of the car is distinctly Japanese. The instrument cluster and analog gauges have a user-friendly design, and there are plenty of storage cubbies, including an oversize glove box. The split-folding rear seats enable the car to carry skis and other long cargo. Perhaps my only significant objection, one that has been noted by other reviewers, is a lack of legroom in the sedan's rear seats...
...Venetian quattrocento painters, on the fresco decorations of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. Giorgione's ambition to paint people in the act of thinking, to invent signs for internal reflection as well as external show, was carried forward by Titian into works such as the Louvre's Man with a Glove...
...detect the slightest movement of the digits. A head-mounted display that looks like an oversize skin-diving mask is called the EyePhone. Built-in headphones provide stereo sound, and a pair of liquid-crystal-display screens creates stereoscopic images that give the illusion of three dimensions. Both glove and headset are equipped with electromagnetic sensors that track changes in position and orientation. For computer power, the equipment is linked by cable to a pair of Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations -- one for each eye -- capable of creating up to 30 color images a second...
Though in its infancy, virtual reality has attracted an extraordinary amount of media attention. The technology has been featured on ABC News and Entertainment Tonight and in front-page stories in more than two dozen newspapers. Mattel has managed to sell some 600,000 copies of its Power Glove, a crude $90 variant on the DataGlove that is designed for use with a Nintendo video-game player, despite the existence of only a handful of games to go with the glove. Virtual reality has even worked its way into the plot line of a feature film. In the forthcoming...