Lobarinas showed me a Plexiglas platform with an embedded pressure sensor attached to a computer.
This wouldn't seem unusual, except that the mouse's tail is attached to a computer, not a furry little body.
(The Compact Flash and Smart Media card slots don't work when the FotoShow is attached to a computer, a missed opportunity on Iomega's part).
The Garmin and many other GPS units not only must be attached to a computer to update, but some devices, like those from Magellan, work only with Windows.
He has survived progressive muscle paralysis and now communicates by small movements of a cheek muscle which are picked up by infrared sensors attached to a computer.
The idea behind smart cards, like the Blue card that American Express introduced last year and the new Visa cards, is that consumers can run them through a reader attached to a computer, just as a store clerk would.
Similarly, the electronic tongue is essentially a bundle of sensors attached to a computer that can taste the substances found in a beaker of liquid to determine their flavor.
"Newspapers are becoming the new slave traders," he said, "and journalists will become people who never get out and are attached to a computer screen – and that's the future of journalism and newspapers".
Designed by the Hamburg-based firm Jung von Matt (which bills itself as being in the business of "attention warfare"), the ad worked via a camera attached to a computer outfitted with face-tracking software with a working range of about 16 feet.
A Keithley model 2400 multimeter attached to a computer via a GPIB cable is used to acquire the resistance data using National Instruments LabView software.
Digital images were captured with a light microscope (Olympus, CX31) attached to a computer using ×40 magnification and recorded using the MShot Digital Imaging systems program.
