Many appear to perceive faces as if they were inanimate objects - using a completely different part of the brain.
An assortment of objects - mostly beer cans and small rocks - rained down on the Swazi bench after Zimbabwe's fifth goal.
It takes its name from the four fixed objects - buildings, antennae, spans and earth - which divers use to take off.
The younger Sebastiani, according to two of his relatives, had a habit of getting drunk and driving into objects--on one occasion, a stop sign.
It would be capable of not just negotiating its environment but also intelligently manipulating objects--a level of functioning almost equivalent to a human servant.
But it's got a problem of its own making: a brand diluted by application on too many objects--underwear, dishes and sunglasses, to name a few.
It's not about levitation or multiplication of objects -- those are just tools I happen to use to convey deeper concepts I find to be interesting.
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The process of 3-D printing uses computer-created digital models to create real-world objects -- everything from simple toys or jewelry to more complex objects with moving parts.
But these packets, called photons, are also endowed with the indeterminate properties that make them quantum objects - so an optical computer can also be a quantum computer.
No other game has created quite such a life-like game world as regards the movement of hair, breakable objects - anything and everything - and the sheer amount of eye-candy.
Though Surface's look and feel is now final, the team's design room remains papered in blown-up photos, a mix of renderings and inspirational objects -- things like a slim Moleskine notebook.
The reason is that skin does not reflect the laser in the same way as most other objects - meaning for those wishing to evade the camera's gaze, stripping naked is an option.
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Uncollected rubbish began to pile up (sometimes in the strangest of places) along with other objects - thanks to an ever-thoughtful production team, who left mattresses and old fridges on the street to prompt a debate about how to legally dispose of them.
Unlike the larger Kuiper-belt objects, comet-sized ones would be too faint to show up in a single photograph even one taken by the mighty Hubble.
But Cheng says balloons can offer an inexpensive way to rapidly respond to exciting targets of opportunity like newly-detected near-earth objects, sun-grazing comets, or dust storms on Mars.
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He cobbled together "objects"--please don't call them sculptures--out of found slabs of wood and, in one case, a chickpea and the vertebra of a dog.
The astronomers who will use these telescopes are particularly interested in finding any Earth-like objects in the so-called habitable zone around a star, where temperatures permit water to exist in a liquid state.
Once you've got the hang of it, cutting through the jargon of Auras, Happenings and Anywheres - the different classes of objects you create - then it is impressive.
Meanwhile it is very interesting to think how the Internet of Things - that is, devices and objects with built-in connectivity - can link to our ability to use applications and exchange information socially.
It can also record in bursts of three images to track fast-moving objects, or make time-lapse recording, taking a photos automatically anywhere from once a minute to once every 24 hours.
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When I asked him how natural-history objects had entered the American fine-arts auction market, Herskowitz credited himself.
The term refers to a set of technologies that will connect the real and digital worlds by embedding sensors in everyday objects and establishing real-time communications between objects and machines.
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But the State Department has similar five-year bilateral agreements with eight other countries, restricting importation of objects like pre-Columbian masks from Bolivia, Khmer statues from Cambodia and historic terra cotta sculptures from Mali.
More distant objects are moving away from us - and each other - faster than nearer objects, which causes a shift of their apparent colour toward the red end of the spectrum - a "redshift".
While making concrete slabs double as displays may prove useful when dressing up those otherwise drab skyscrapers, creating 3D-like images from real objects throws in a much-needed dash of geekiness.
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He objects to Republican-sponsored attachments on the measures that affect Medicare, education, and the environment.
It could be used to install objects in hard-to-reach places such as underground water pipes, he suggested.
The next step is working to build a clocking device that can hide bigger objects in three-dimensions.
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Among them was Manar Moursi, the principal behind Studio Meem, which repurposes ordinary Egyptian objects into eco-friendly furniture.
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At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.
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