Word: scrolling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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 pet that uses a text-to-voice synthesizer to read...
...ages to boot up. The 6-GB Personal Jukebox 100 from Remote Solutions only takes CD rips (which means you can't transfer any Napster files you might have stored on your PC). And the 9-GB Neo 25 from SSI is a pain to navigate, forcing you to scroll through every track on a tiny LCD screen...
Washington then presented Dunn with a scroll commemorating the capital campaign...
...came to Haven House, Lane controls her world by computer. The ALS Association of Georgia, with help from Lane's church, installed $2,000 worth of software in her omnipresent laptop. She can move her left shoulder enough to make her elbow control a mouse, allowing her to scroll through the alphabet--and communicate. Taped up on two walls of her room are one-page instructions to the staff that detail just how she is to be positioned at the computer and given drinks, including the angle of the straw in her mouth...
...deny my own voyeuristic fascination as I scroll down through the choices of men being offered one final moment of the "freedom" to be a consumer. Their choices, as diverse, poignant and sometimes just plain wacky as they are, offer clues to their identities and character. But perhaps that fascination is simply a kind of "desert island discs" game that calls on the reader to consider his or her own menu for a final meal. But even more fascinating than the contents of the site, perhaps, is the decision by the folks down at Huntsville to post this information...