Given his position and our topic of conversation -- Google's Project Glass -- he was conspicuous for wearing no eyewear whatsoever.
But in truth it is still unclear how big the appetite for head-worn computers will be, and Google's Project Glass - which benefits from the company's strong tech brand - is expected to play a critical role in determining whether the sector succeeds or fails.
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The three-hour experience at Remy starts by meeting a sommelier in Remy's glass-walled 900-bottle wine room to pre-select wines for the evening and finishes with enough food to skip the next morning's breakfast buffet.
The front sports a glass surface with three capacitive buttons and the back showcases the company's Crystal Reflection process -- an attractive patterned glass-like finish that's a bit of a fingerprint magnet.
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Matching its older sister's 10.1-inch Gorilla Glass screen, there's now an all-over splash resistant coating (inside and out), with those intriguing cut-off corners we've seen already there to aid the ergonomics of handling the slab.
They do so from the second floor of Fox Interactive's glass-and-steel complex in Beverly Hills.
Or, with Google's much-anticipated Glass connected headset, you'll glance up at a tiny screen above your eye.
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Hilltop Crystal Palace Park was created to display Joseph Paxton's behemoth glass-and-iron structure, relocated from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Like all budget carriers, AirAsia wants to pare costs, which is why it refuses to berth its planes at KLIA's expensive glass-and-steel terminal.
Holding it in your hand, you can tell the Samsung phone's plastic parts are a bit cheaper than Apple's luxury glass-and-metal components.
He cites Harvard University's glass-flower collection at its Museum of Natural History as an inexhaustible cache of ideas, for form, content and sheer brazen originality.
What makes the Commando different is its thick black plastic shell, a 3.6-inch touchscreen covered with Corning's extra-tough Gorilla Glass and a micro-USB port sealed with a rubber gasket.
There was no such protest about Mr Libeskind's glass-shards war museum in Manchester, because it sits amidst cleared industrial dereliction as, indeed, do all the new buildings on the Tyne.
" Other highlights will include Olafur Eliasson's oversized glass-and-mirrored sculpture, "Blue Double Kaleidoscope, " from 2005, and Barbara Kruger's 1984 photograph of a hand caught in a net, "Untitled (We Are Objects of Your Suave Entrapments).
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Mr Heatherwick's future projects include the world's first all-glass bridge, and a public square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will take the dramatic and humorous appearance of a gigantic, electric-blue carpet landing, as it were, from outer space.
At Richard Meier's two 15-story luminescent glass towers rising along the edge of New York City's Greenwich Village overlooking the Hudson River, the minimum apartment size is one floor-1, 800 square feet in the north building, 3, 700 in the south building.
There's a new Gorilla Glass-equipped 3-inch, 920k-dot display, that's plenty sharp and quite responsive in live-view mode.
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YVR's monumental, glass-wrapped, postmodern main terminal offers travelers an impressive range of conveniences, dining options, and shopping opportunities.
If he's glass half-empty, he might be wearing real gold-nugget cufflinks.
Besides saving some plastic, the Passbook entry adds some worth through geofencing that reminds recipients to splurge if they're near one of Apple's steel-and-glass stores.
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Inside, art enlivens the dark marble lobby by Singapore's LTW Designworks: guests are greeted by Australian artist Jane Cowie's 9.9-meter-tall glass tile installation depicting a koi pond and subtly etched scenes from China Merchant Group's 141-year-old history.
"In terms of a coach, he's very much glass half-empty rather than glass half-full, " said Mark Lawrenson, the former Liverpool defender.
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Still, where Apple's device presents an all-glass front, creating a clean, monolithic appearance, the front of the Z10 is broken up by horizontal bands that span the top and bottom.
Sir Terry, like Sir Peter, comes from modest origins in Merseyside, but whereas the quiet, lean Sir Terry still collects visitors personally from the lobby of Tesco's shabby headquarters in Cheshunt, the charismatic, rotund Sir Peter directs Sainsbury's fortunes from a glass-and-steel office block in central London and seems most at home at the Royal Opera House, where he is a director.
Baidu, China's largest search engine, is working on its own smart glasses technology - similar to Google's Glass project.
First off, it adapts your Canon EF (full-frame) lenses to E-Mount, which is nice enough since there's still a paucity of high-end glass for NEX users.
At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of Louis Comfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style.
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All of the SETI searching over the past 50 years is equivalent to examining one 8-ounce glass of water from the Earth's oceans -- a lot of human effort, but not a lot of exploration.
Last year, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando designed the Stone Hill Center, a 32, 000-square-foot cement-and-glass space that is the area's first modern architectural icon -- and a seamless addition to the serene grounds.
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