The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since.
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Swiping from the home screen through the app grid was smooth, and in fact, all the graphical transitions we saw -- from the unlock screen to opening various apps -- were quite fluid as well.
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The phone, which has yet to be officially named, has a screen comprised of a grid of pins, which move up and down to form into Braille shapes and characters whenever an SMS message or email is received.
The home screen is still just a grid of static icons that launch apps.
While this may come off as a bit schizophrenic, the tandem launcher is particularly helpful in Claystone's current state, as it takes an inappropriate amount of time to scroll through the 3 x 3 grid of application icons on the home screen.
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Click it and whatever windows you have open will minimize, with a grid of large icons taking up the whole screen.
By passing through this screen, visitors leave behind the grid of the city streets and enter an experience where spaces flow freely into one another, gently canted forms lend a sense of dynamism to the walls and ceiling, and surfaces de-materialize into the weightless, illusory depth of the moving image.
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Vaporizing nickel onto the surface and removing that screen leaves behind a near-perfect grid of metal, hexagonal dots.
It's still a three-element UI, with a central home screen showing running applications, an app grid, and the BlackBerry hub -- a feed of time sensitive notifications from email, calendar, BBM, social apps and more.
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The electric grid worked for the radios of the 1930s works for the flat screen TVs of the 2000s.
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After a brief spray of notes, a white scrim fell, revealing the band members, each wearing a skintight bicycling outfit covered with luminescent white lines in a grid formation, as if they were being tracked on a green screen for later animation.
Alternatively, swipe from any edge across the lock screen to bring up the applications view -- a vertical grid of icons.
The QuickFit Virtual Scale function to provide actual sized document, photo and alignment grid overlays onscreen so users can accurately preview and edit their photos on screen.
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On his screen is a single frame of the character Alex the Lion with a mathematical grid over his face and a big, bulging eyeball.
The NVIDIA GRID Platform enables the smooth, seamless interactive experience of a high-performance gaming PC anywhere, on any screen -- including smart TVs, PCs, tablets and smartphones.
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