Fingers can be made to wobble, point, slide or press, making them much more effective as tools to help people use their computer.

BBC: Handy future for gesture sensor

But whatever their limitations, the tools allow us to examine how words are being used by both the press and the general population, and to measure changes in their popularity and shifts in their meaning.

NPR: 'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically

He had the entire traditional political press corps and mainstream media focused on him like a laser beam by utilizing one of the most old school tools available to a senator -- the filibuster.

CNN: New leader of the GOP: Rand Paul