Dubbed "the portrait of a soul" and "the face that launched 1, 000 therapists, " "The Scream" depicts a distorted human figure -- hands flat against its sunken face, eyes and mouth wide open -- in the foreground of a nightmarish landscape.

CNN: 'The Scream' sold for nearly $120 million

He said something in Latin, hands pressed flat to the tabletop, and then he did a strange thing.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

At seventy, he has owlish eyes, a flared Hungarian nose, and a tendency to gesture broadly with the flat palms of his hands.

NEWYORKER: Laptop U

Weighing 140kg, with hands like buckets and a face as flat as a plate, he waded into the marquee as if against a strong current of water and assumed a position in the corner.

BBC: The life of a sumo wrestler

Microsoft had considered multiple PC form factors before settling on Surface, Panay says, and the tablets didn't always have that sharp-angled design: the firm tried curved backs before deciding that the flat surfaces were more reassuring in users' hands.

ENGADGET: Microsoft shows Surface prototypes, teases the tablets that might have been

Light Blue Optics, a tiny technology company in Cambridge, England is developing a portable projector that can turn any flat surface into a touch screen and save our hands the hassle of holding anything.

FORBES: Meet The Projector That Could Put The iPhone's Screen On Your Desk