New eye machines on offer in the clinic promise more perfect perfection.
Back in 1951, Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese cartoonist, dreamed up Astro Boy, a lovable robot with laser fingertips, searchlight eyes, machine guns in his black shorts, and rocket jets flaming from his red boots.
This not only benefits the players, but it could have a positive impact on umpires of the game, who will not simply be audited by a Hawk-Eye machine, but can rely upon their training and experience to render judgment.
"Right in front of our eyes, machines began to replace men," Patel says.
But in hundreds of instances, the result has been precisely the opposite: they fail unpredictably, and in extremely strange ways; voters report that their choices "flip" from one candidate to another before their eyes; machines crash or begin to count backward; votes simply vanish.
Pacing around his Brooklyn apartment, Tommy Mitchell paused to eye his machine with frustration.
To be honest, I had been eyeing this machine elsewhere at $200.
In Sottsass's eyes a machine as big as a house that could think needed to be treated with respect.
In a blink of history's eye, flying machines would become bewilderingly complex, even supersonic, each capable of carrying hundreds of people across oceans in a few hours and around the world, but not without superhuman computers.
Which is quite a different fashion statement from the one that the private eye-sex machine made in Gordon Parks's original "Shaft," in which the actor Richard Roundtree looked as if he had stepped right out of a store window on 125th Street.
