Researcher Valentin Huen explains that "graphical user interfaces are perfect for modifying systems, " but operating them on a day-to-day basis is much easier using tangible objects.
"Our goal is to develop a robot that behaves like MacGyver, the television character from the 1980s who solved complex problems and escaped dangerous situations by using everyday objects and materials he found at hand, " said project leader Prof Mike Stilman.
Which is why HANA data can be viewed on iPad today, and why it evangelizes the use of tablets for mobile Business Intelligence, to the point that its executives are all using Business Objects Explorer on the iPad to show that the company, as the saying goes, eats its dogfood.
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"I was trying to model how dolphins recognize objects using their bio-sonar, " Roitblat says.
You need to find a way to leave the room using only the objects inside.
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The process turns digital models on computer screens into three-dimensional solid objects using plastics and other materials.
The visible particles and clouds of smoke in the scene react to other objects using fluid dynamics simulation.
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These people are able to manipulate objects using mechanical arms and hands.
The Oregon has modes for hiking, driving and geocaching, the game of finding hidden objects using only GPS locations posted on Web sites.
You project the game field onto a the wall (in the case of Ground Kontrol, we taped up a few pieces of paper, which worked fine) and interact with objects using a laser point.
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Many appear to perceive faces as if they were inanimate objects - using a completely different part of the brain.
Using things like shiny objects, and shrouding products in secrecy, he drew enough hype for people to care about the iPod.
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Whiteread, one of England's rising superstars, makes art using the insides of objects, employing everything from hot water bottles to an entire house.
In the 1990s, he moved from traditional skydiving to Base jumping, leaping off fixed objects and using a parachute to break the fall.
And Jannuzzo acted as pit bull in notifying 12 record labels that the company objects to artists using the word "Glock" in rap songs such as Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit, " mainly out of fear that Glock's name will become a generic term for handgun.
Saeed said some of the Al-Masry fans had planned the attack, with thugs using rocks, knives, sharp objects, and weapons in their assault on the Al-Ahly fans.
Dr Oxman believes the design and construction of objects could be transformed using principles inspired by nature, resulting in shapes that are impossible to build without additive manufacturing.
The team is using names from this region to catalogue objects at Gale.
The idea is to send a satellite to hover alongside a threatening asteroid and, using the gravitational attraction between the two objects, to pull the asteroid gradually off course.
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The set of controls allows using gestures for scrolling, selecting, rotating objects and controlling menus.
By using your hands or placing other unique everyday objects on the surface you can interact with, share and collaborate like you've never done before.
Using metamaterials means the scheme should work for all objects, regardless of their shape.
"Images taken using terahertz rays have good contrast between similar density objects, " explained co-author Willie Padilla.
The Khmer people have continued using this artistic legacy for the ornamentation of everyday objects, houses, monuments, in addition to public and religious buildings.
Many teams of astronomers are using electronic cameras to find these near-Earth objects, but according to NASA, the entire effort consists of fewer than 100 people.
The titular glow ball can be skinned with different textures, each one allowing a different amount and hue of illumination to escape to surrounding objects, and is directed around the screen using the accelerometer in your tablet or smartphone.
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Using historical prices in Calabar in 1699-1700, and objects recovered from a shipwreck, it explains exactly what a human life was worth.
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She and Coz had talked at length about why she kept the stolen objects separate from the rest of her life: because using them would imply greed or self-interest, because leaving them untouched made it seem as if she might one day give them back, because piling them in a heap kept their power from leaking away.
Users can interact with Rihanna by using any NIVEA Creme tin in front of the monitor and can influence the objects in her surroundings as she sings California King Bed.
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Yeomans and colleagues are using telescopes on the ground and in space to nail down the precise orbit of objects that might threaten Earth and predict whether the planet could be hit.
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