And its ultra-slim body, an all-glass and aluminum enclosure, is a triumph of industrial design.
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The effect comes partly from the all-glass exterior walls, with their view of Biscayne Bay, downtown Miami, the city's port terminal and a series of small islands.
Mr. Headington combined three of the units to create the 8, 262-square-foot penthouse, which has a circular all-glass living area, ocean views and wine as well as Champagne tasting rooms.
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Still, where Apple's device presents an all-glass front, creating a clean, monolithic appearance, the front of the Z10 is broken up by horizontal bands that span the top and bottom.
He mentioned that he is working on several stores that will look like the one on New York's Upper West Side, which has a tall glass entrance that stretches up to an all-glass ceiling.
Mr Heatherwick's future projects include the world's first all-glass bridge, and a public square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will take the dramatic and humorous appearance of a gigantic, electric-blue carpet landing, as it were, from outer space.
That seems like a feat, given that the 13-inch S7 has a glass cover -- after all, the last time we reviewed a laptop with a glass lid we ended up making excuses for its relatively heavy build.
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And I think about all of the opportunities that are still beyond reach for too many young women and too many of our brothers and sisters -- too many of our sisters and mothers and aunts -- all of the glass ceilings that have yet to be shattered.
It is a baffling combination of towers, hemicycles, courtyards, conference rooms and tree-filled atriums, all linked together by glass lifts and dark, leather-lined corridors.
He proceeded to stick the gadget on all sorts of surfaces -- glass, metal, rock, an elevator wall -- like a doctor with a stethoscope.
Matching its older sister's 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass screen, there's now an all-over splash resistant coating (inside and out), with those intriguing cut-off corners we've seen already there to aid the ergonomics of handling the slab.
Cinderella Notwithstanding, traveling by coach isn't all glass slippers and romance--as we discovered during a horse-drawn transit of the Alps this June.
In fact, a recent study by the Flight Safety Foundation found that 38% of all accidents in modern turbine-powered, glass-cockpit-equipped aircraft were likely or highly likely to have been prevented if the pilot had a HUD.
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The 339 modern rooms at the imposing, steel-and-glass Trump Hotel Chicago soar above the Loop, many with giant all-limestone bathrooms, fireplaces, kitchens and floor-to-ceiling windows with expansive city and water views.
All right, everyone, take a seat, and have a glass of wine -- (laughter) -- all right, because I'm going to sell you guys out. (Laughter.) They were passing around a little glass, and I was like, what's that? (Laughter.) So please feel free.
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After working as a glazer and glass-restorer, he had turned to glass-painting and designing, gradually obtaining commissions in churches all over Britain.
Patrick Ada, Jack Midson, Antonio Murray and Mat Mitchel-King were all out of contract at the Glass World Stadium with the club unable to afford long term deals.
All along the back of the house, broken mirror-glass lay glittering on the grass.
"Oh man, that's all my stuff coming out the door, them sliding-glass doors down there, " he said on the video.
The steel frame that once revolutionized the Chicago skyline was again seminal, though now no longer hidden on the inside of walls - the International Style was all about exposed metal and glass, and represents most people's image of the modern skyscraper.
Perhaps after all these decades, he now supports the return of Glass-Steagall.
Combine all that with an edge-to-edge sheet of Gorilla Glass on the face and you've got a rather solid and premium-feeling device.
It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?
That's 1.6 trillion bits per second, or enough capacity to let 28 million people all surf the Web at current modem speeds--on a single glass strand no thicker than a human hair.
's Glass headgear is seen by many as a pioneering, all-in-one wearable device.
After all, they say, many of the worst elements of the Glass-Steagall act have been disabled by the courts or by regulators such as the Federal Reserve reinterpreting what commercial banks are allowed to do.
It is all part of a three-and-a-half year vine to glass process that mimics the process of how sparkling wines are made in the Champagne region, and the results can be tasted in a sampling session at the end of the tour.
Incredible as it may seem, there was the Sage of Omaha sitting alone scarfing down his low-calorie meal of waffles dripping in syrup, slabs of bacon and on top--like the cherry on a sundae--a serving of eggs benedict, all being washed down with a huge glass of cherry Coke, the first of five such libations he drinks every day.
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