Word: screening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first commercial, we were all fed up with the fuzzy picture and crackled sound of our seventeen-inch screen. We entered the Straus common room, and found ourselves amongst a large group of first-years. This prime episode had attracted Harvard students from across the yard--by my estimation a larger group than had assembled for both Game 5 of the World Series and the presidential election returns...
...nearly noon and the small crowd is growing restless. A Portuguese soap opera plays quietly on the large-screen television. The old men in the corner lay down their deck of cards. All eyes are on the door...
...imagine this: you're sitting at a computer equipped with a steering wheel, gas pedal, brake and stick shift. Words appear on the screen at a speed you determine by applying the pedals. Your eyes don't waste time with saccadic jumps, since there's never more than one word on the screen at a time. The wheel steers you between chapters; the stick shift takes you to the next book. Before you know it, your brain has become some kind of jet-powered Maserati. Reading regular text, you're considered fleet of eye if you hit 400 words...
...similarities end. Gold is deeply tanned, ponytailed and fast talking, with a background in experimental music and toy design. His group has spent the past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page of a children's book; and the Reading-Eye Dog, a robotic...
...says Card's team: its research shows the average user gets confused by blue underlined words, and that these links too often fail to communicate exactly where they're taking you. So what's the solution? Ask Card, and he will point to the screen shot of an enormous multisided shape his team jokingly refers to as the Death Star...