Over on the other side were seven large steaming tubs, each with a digital sign overhead that displayed the exact temperature, in Celsius, of its waters.
It has sleek, elegantly curved glass walls, outdoor patios, art installations hanging over escalators, fish tanks filled with exotic species and digital screens overhead that display the weather -- with lightning flashes -- and trading levels for the Nasdaq.
All eyes fixate on the overhead digital monitor to see the official weight, though many of the old salts standing around have already guessed it.
The image itself looks painterly and unreal, like an extreme digital composition, while overhead there's a sinister black blob: an eye-in-the-sky TV camera reminding us that this whole event is actually a stage set.
"Are you Games Ready?" ask the overhead digital signs on the main motorways into Glasgow - host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Mouse behavior during the water maze test was monitored by a CCD camera mounted overhead; digital data of real-time images were recorded to a PC using the public domain NIH Image program (developed at The National Institute of Mental Health and available on the Internet at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/).
For each trait, alevins in each of the 120 pots were placed into a plastic tray and photographed, using a digital camera mounted overhead.
Two sets of small red and green light-emitting diodes (10-cm separation), mounted above the headstage amplifier, were recorded by an overhead digital video camera and sampled at 60 Hz to track the rat's head position and direction.
And Neal Hansch, a board member and former managing director of MEST Incubator, in Accra, Ghana, pointed out that some of the company's custom solutions are expensive — processing cash payments, for example, entails more overhead than digital methods — which will make expansion difficult.
