The pulses of electricity in the brain are then translated into commands to move the arm, which bends at the elbow, wrist and could grab an object.

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So it bends and collapses at the top and that weight goes down so it demolishes like the pack of cards you saw.

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At the touch of a button, the bends of the athletics track can be lowered to create a larger flat arena for other sports use.

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Hanwell swooned round the bends and rolled into town, stopping at the village green, which was all the village there was.

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Beneath the carpet is a mesh of optical fibres that detect and plot movement as pressure bends them, changing the light detected at the carpet's edges.

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Keeping rates where they are amounts to driving at a constant high speed even when the road ahead bends sharply.

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Shoes should flex where your foot bends, said Noreen Oswell, a podiatrist at The Foot Center at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Towers in Los Angeles.

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As sea level rises, the weight on one end increases, causing the plank to bend so pressure goes up at the end but down in the middle where the plank bends upward (see sketch above).

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