NYSE began by building a room called a pod, in the centre of which was the "matching engine", a central server that gathers data and distributes it to market participants for a fee.
But the magazine was outmaneuvered by OK!, a more downscale doppelg* nger that erupted from a pod in 1993 to wage a celebrity death match with Hello! on Britain's newsstands.
(Each apartment comes with a pod in varying dimensions).
The 114 refers to the fictional device, the CRM 114 Discriminator, from Dr. Strangelove and is a number that recurs in various Kubrick films: 114 is a pod in 2001, a serum injected into Alex in A Clockwork Orange, and crops up in Eyes Wide Shut as a room number in a mortuary. .
Luggage is stowed in a pod in the undercarriage.
The farmer-owned Farm Stay UK ( www.farmstay.co.uk) has recently added an "alternative and camping" search facility to its website, listing sites that include a camping pod in Cumbria, a yurt in Leicestershire and a wigwam in Yorkshire.
What's isn't open to discussion, however, is the awesomeness of watching a robot cut a pea pod in half with a samurai sword.
Place the milk and vanilla pod in a pan over a low to medium heat on top of the stove.
Needless to say, it did, but it's not a bad way to start your day - lying in a warm, wool-lined pod in a clearing in the thick of the cacophonous British countryside.
These energy inputs were measured as part of a resuspension experiment of uniform latex microspheres deposited on a single rye grass seed pod in a wind tunnel.
