The team's invisibility cloak exploits this effect, and relies on a specific geometry comprising two prism-shaped calcite crystals glued together, such that they leave a wedge-shaped gap beneath in which objects can be "cloaked" when illuminated with polarised light.
Irregularly shaped openings emanate from the base and are concentrated around the thin edge of the wedge-shaped building.
The X11's wedge-shaped body is 13mm (0.5 inch) thick, tapering down to about 6mm (0.23 inch) at the front.
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Barish's first experience with a SkyMall product was the SkyRest, a giant, wedge-shaped travel pillow that he reviewed for Gadling in 2008.
Several other smaller, temporary venues, including the prominent wedge-shaped water-polo arena by David Morley Architects, will vanish for good, though their individual components can be reused.
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G8 meeting in Birmingham on May 15th-17th they will stroll round a revolutionary, wedge-shaped building that signals a shift in the traditional balance between engineers and architects.
The wedge-shaped double-sided remote control features a built-in touchpad and dedicated Netflix button on one side, and a QWERTY keyboard on the other side, allowing easy web and search features.
Nobody minded the interloper in the lab, and, three years later, Bose produced a wedge-shaped contraption outfitted with twenty-two speakers, a synthesis of his time among the engineers and his musical sensibility.
We also spotted a wedge-shaped building at the Tokyo Institute of Technology that is completely covered in 4, 500 solar panels, which enables it to use half of the energy of a similarly-sized building.
The stock bested its summer highs in the second half of January after climbing into bull market territory at the beginning of the month, and has since begun to edge higher in a wedge-shaped, trading range.
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