Products have gravitated naturally toward slimmer, lighter devices, with rectangular bodies, no sharp edges, larger screens, and touch technology.
And because there are no defined edges to most of our projects--and certainly not to our workdays--we live in an endless jumble of work and life.
Even in an age of growing mass customization, producing a device, and in particular a device that needs to look designed, with no rough edges, has unavoidable startup and machining costs.
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There are still some rough edges, and no one is going to mistake Natural Voices for actual natural voices.
And so, above all, I hope the word goes out from our Olympics that not only do we run excellent world events, but we also balance buses on the edges of buildings like no one else ever could.
Google found most of the accidental clicks on app image ads happened at the outer edges of the ad, no doubt because people were trying to scroll up or click on adjacent content.
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An excellent solution, for landlords who can afford to do so, is to pay off enough of the mortgage so that the house edges into the black and no depreciation or other deductions go to waste.
Unlike previous models, curved edges are now smooth and require no special sanding or finishing.
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Now is no time for fretting and worrying at the frayed edges of the one relationship in which we rightly continue to place so much hope.
Puzzlers used to starting with the outside edges will be shocked at versions that have no straight lines at all.
The display is basically the same size -- no color here yet, sorry -- so unless the sharp edges on your first-gen piece are driving you batty, it looks like this could be safely skipped by current owners while roping in new buyers who wouldn't have considered it before.
Burnt edges rendered the confectionary inedible, but as its final destination was no longer stomachs, raw lasagna sheets were added for structural support, and hot glue used to bind it all together.
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Take a tour around the edges and you'll find two USB 2.0 ports (no USB 3.0), a Gigabit Ethernet jack and an HDMI socket.
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We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.
In many cases this is the only way to reach a function, the Z10 has a distinct lack of buttons around the edges of the handset (volume, power, and camera) and there are no buttons at all on the face of the unit.
It is no surprise, really, that someone (in this case Pets.com) might overreach poking around the edges of the online retail space.
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Now, Prof Smith and his Duke colleague Nathan Landy have taken another tack, reworking how the edges of a microwave cloak line up, ensuring that the light passes around the cloak completely with no reflections.
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