You use the new device not by looking down at the wood you're cutting, he said, but by watching a video screen mounted above the power tool.
I distracted myself by studying a video screen on which FedEx, the sponsor of Space Mountain, was pitching itself on a futurist theme -- the first of many unctuous corporate plugs I would encounter.
And Mr. Gal's assertive, rhythmically vital, occasionally brash score is packed with vivid touches: not least, a properly disembodied God, portrayed by lips on a video screen and sung by a countertenor and a mezzo-soprano in unison and close dissonances.
Instead, he came back to us with a list of stupid inventions from the past, saying "What if I shit on something like the video mounted belt player and then all of a sudden it got trendy to communicate with people by means of a video screen inches above another person's genitalia?
Even older children are captivated, if only by the presence of a video screen on a pocket camera.
For the occasion, the furniture and equipment had been replaced by chairs, a riser, a video screen, and an upright piano to accommodate a Michael Feinstein rendition of "Thanks for the Memory".
(Streisand took it somewhat easier during another surprise cameo, by Seth MacFarlane, who helped her breeze through "Pure Imagination" while accompanied on a video screen by footage of dolphins at play).
Before that, an image by Mr. Carlier flashed on a video screen above the stage.
A large shadow resolves into the figure of a woman in a burqa who, still as a statue, levelly delivers part of the witches' prophecies; more prophecies are proclaimed on a video screen by a face two storeys high, hanging like a movie poster over the side of the building.
In experiments reported online this week in Nano Letters, the MIT researchers were able to create an image of a smiley face on a video screen by placing a web of the fibers in front of the drawn image.
