Each finger is typically about 30 amino acids long, with a variable section at the tip.
Homer's crisscrossed tape led to a fabric glove he sewed with crisscrosses of ribbon down each finger.
For example, each finger swipe is reinforcing the particular cognitive motor skills necessary for interacting with touchscreen interfaces.
By contrast, said Dr Westerman, each finger had at least 12 different gestures available to it that MultiTouch could recognise.
He stretched his arms wide again, and stretched each finger as well.
We did that so our staffs wouldn't point the finger at each other, which is just natural in one of these things.
Enter FiveFingers, a line of shoes by the Italian company Vibram that are really gloves for the feet, with minimal protection and a finger for each toe.
But as we know today, this recession has not only furthered the divide between consumers, employees and corporations on a whole host of social, environmental, and economic issues, but also pointed the finger at each and every one of us.
Even when one of the otters he looked after bit off part of a finger on each hand. he didn't blame the animal at all, just his own stupidity in reaching out to the otter while holding a cardigan full of the scent of a visitor to the cottage.
They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.
You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else.
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President Obama has criticised what he called the "ridiculous spectacle" of BP and two other companies "falling over each other to point the finger of blame".
We both ran a careful finger along the lower edge of each eye, to wipe the tears without smearing the makeup.
His 6-foot-5 frame hunched towards a laptop, Ressi trains a finger at a column of numbers, each data point like a genetic marker in the DNA of an entrepreneur.
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Apple's implementation would slim things down by either having electrodes share duties, both driving the display and taking finger input, or stuffing two electrodes into each pixel to accomplish the same goal.
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To accomplish this, you must hit a separate key to bring up each weapon, taking your eyes off the screen and your finger off the trigger.
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Finger-pointing erupted between the AFL-CIO and the chamber, with each side accusing the other of trying to sink immigration reform, leaving prospects for a resolution unclear.
The percussion-based band consists of 17 musicians, and each show is completely improvised, led by a conductor who uses more than 70 hand, finger and body signals to tell the musicians what and how to play.
Android was taking off in the wake of the Motorola Droid, and the software's support for both finger touch and multiple resolutions effectively opened the floodgates for companies wanting to one-up each other with bigger screens across more of their lineups.
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After downloading the app and opening a game account (for which I was denied the user name "RealGilbertGottfried") I soon learned that Ruzzle consists of three two-minute rounds in which you and your opponent each get 16 letters placed in four rows of four that can be linked together to create words by gliding your finger over the screen at any connecting angle.
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