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• Flatness
  ...edium like a map mirrored early concepts of the world as a whole that were based on this limited visual information. Therefore, the fantasy of flatness as ...between Europe and Asia” (Tooley 5). While these distortion were mainly based on faulty calculations and assumptions, a flat surface is not capable of ac
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• Polaroid Camera
  ...y system to eject the print, which developed in direct sunlight before the user's eyes" (Trotman). ...vealed the popularity of Lomography as an artform, and an interest in film-based cameras as a new means of creative expression. In this age of digitization
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• Minitel
  ...sed with separate televisions. All systems also require and interface for user input. Most systems featured a QWERTY keyboard although some broadcast tel ...it is in fact the power button. This is completely counter-intuitive to a user-friendly interface, which the Minitel so vigorously boasted.<br><br>
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• Credit Card Imprinter
  ...payment. But credit transactions are also a return to a mode of exchange based on promissory notes. Although the money to which these notes refer are no ...e problem of verification. At the point of a credit card transaction, the user of the card needs to be identified as the owner of the card, and the card n
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• Hollerith Punch Card
  ...ould later make up the Confederacy would hold greater congressional power, based on their slave population. Moreover, it is worth noting that the racist fra ...problem,” which a great deal of contemporary social science research is based on. One of sociology’s well-respected academic journals is aptly titled S
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• Stickerbooks
  ...adhesive is a rubber-based compound, and its strength is designed to vary based on the force applied in its initial application. ...transporting your sticker collection has never been easier thanks to cloud-based storage and the Internet.
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• Viewmaster
  ...g the reel into the device the reel would display the first slide, and the user would be required to press a small white button located on the viewmaster, ...ad seen all of the slides, a talking voice would commence, instructing the user to remove the reel from the device.
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• Mood Ring
  ...bats and was used to communicate the current emotional state of the wearer based on the temperature of their skin. The mood ring is now worn as something of ...ff by the diodes and transmitted to the other side of the ring through the user’s finger. On the opposite side of the ring, a detector measures the “in
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• BeOS
  ...hus, one of the system's prime selling points was its newness-- it was not based off of the same 20 year old code and programming models that competitors us ...ld be accomplished if you built a personal computer using new assumptions, based on cutting-edge software design concepts, and designed for the next decade'
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• Virtual boy
  ...polygonal graphics. At the same time the portable gaming market was still based on monochromatic displays popularized by the dominant portable gaming devic ...es. Although the machine produces the two separate images, it is up to the user's brain to convert those two images into a cohesive 3 dimensional perspecti
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• Tamagotchi
  ...an psychology. By promoting realism, they became something intimate to the user. This nurturing image of the emotionally bonded robot repeats itself only a ...otchi built a simulated reality, one that was dependent on each Tamagotchi user's understanding of their influence over their virtual pet’s life (Kusahar
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• Duplicating Polygraph
  ...s of various American statesman. The mechanical logics for the device were based on the pantograph, a 17th century tool created for drafting and image repro Devices based on the geometry of the pantograph were initially used for the production an
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• HyperCard
  ...reated the MacPaint application and helped develop the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI). ...rigin to engineer Vannevar Bush’s allegorical Memex machine: a microfilm-based system of organizing media, regardless of their format, using a navigation
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• Mnemonics
  ...al classes it is usually because the sentence used is not the best for the user. Many mnemonic systems work in this manner, tailored to the individual mind ...e methods of loci which use an imagined architecture to structure a speech based on associations of symbols. They are a spatialized remediation of associati
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• Bootleg Video
  ...America's Funniest Home Videos became the model for entertainment based on user-generated content.
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• Text-Based Computer Games
  ...sers can explore and navigate while interacting with other users in a chat-based setting, while additionally allowing users to participate in narrative crea ..., there are several forms of interactive fiction, including MOOs and Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs). The common thread that ties together all interactive ficti
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• Broadcasting
  ...participation in inter-mediac and inter-textual properties, such as games based on shows, and in some cases allowing audience feedback to drive content cho
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• Textual Closure (Formal)
  ...any user modification would lead to error, this model is finding out that user modification are leading instead to refinement. ...rspace’ to anyone with a computer and a data connection. The onset of a user-generated content paradigm, what has been called Web 2.0, has enabled these
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• Multiphone
  ...bars to play music at their table, and worked through telephone lines. The user inserted the necessary amount of coins, and was connected to a team of all- ...9, which went on to be the most successful of these various telephone line-based music libraries.
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• Sundial
  ...overbs written across the base of the dial. Sundials were built and marked based on their position relative to the earth's axis; the angle of the gnomon had ...slit that allowed sun rays to fall on the hour lines of the ring after the user tilted the dial towards the true north.
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• Optical Disc (First Generation)
  ..., can demonstrate the various discourses—commercial, geographical, class-based, techno-evolutionary, theoretical—that speak to the influence of the firs ...der in the laserdisc industry at the time, to capitalize on this trend: “Based on the success in these schools, Pioneer, the home electronics giant, has d
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• Mix tape
  ...he emergence of the double or dual cassette deck (see Patent) allowing the user to record from one pre-recorded tape to a blank one in the same unit. This ...he mix tape discussed here, recorded on compact cassette, and defined as a user and not a producer artform.
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• Cybiko
  ...ore excited by the other stuff that the Cybiko promises to do. The Chicago-based Cybiko company calls the device an "entertainment system" because it aspire ...headquartered in Illinois in the U.S., the development and technology team based in Moscow, and the manufacturers located in Taiwan, the Cybiko was a global
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• Sony Walkman
  ...roducts, which combined both styling and concept in a way that could shift based on consumer demand and market trends, a reflexivity that would have been un ...s of flexible, electronic-based automation technologies… [such] computer-based technologies and a functionally flexible labor force, it [was] common for a
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• Limewire
  ...on downloads, and over the years its popularity rose mainly because of its user-friendly nature and lack of cost. Just before LimeWire was issued a court o ...feature. This allowed the user to view all of the shared files on other user's computers, so that one could download several more songs very quickly. Ve
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• Geocities
  ...o no knowledge of coding needed. With 15 MB of allocated space, pages were based on personal interest, such as fanpages or personal homepages. ...eoCities was bought by Yahoo, for $3.57 million. At this time, the current user base count stood at 1.8 million users with over 200,000 being between the a
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• Apple Newton
  ...recognize when the user was drawing a specific shape. For example, if the user drew a circle the system was able to tell the difference between that shape ...software applications created by Apple. In Notes users could create text-based documents using the various recognizer methods or the on-screen keyboard.
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• Dewey Decimal System
  ...on exists both in print and online. Created in 1967, AACR has a character based tag and is meant to be more flexible and adaptable than DDC. A core concep These decisions are between browsing versus finding. The user-friendsly BISAC-based scheme put customers at ease. This browsing model that works for the book
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• Abacus
  ...op the subject of mathematics and their sexagesimal number system which is based on 60 is still with us in the way that we measure angles and time” (The M ...nction on their phones,for exmaple on smart phones. If you are smart phone user, you could get many of versions of calculators at the application store. (
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• Laserdisc
  ...erial because of its smaller storage capacity. Since these discs gave the user the ability to reference content frame-by-frame, they proved to be a hit wi ...agon’s Lair and it used pre-recorded animated scenes to tell a story. A user would use a remote or joystick to command the story to move forward and mak
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