Today, Glass, arm and wristbands, smartwatches and clip-ons and stick-on sensors are here in their newly imagined glory, and people are still scratching their heads and placing their bets.
The telegraph operators, most of whom were civilians, contended with encroaching enemy regiments, lack of pay, disrupted supply lines and soreness in arms and fingers known as "glass arm".
It goes into detail about various configurations of glasses arms and where the housing for the 'brains' of the device could be located relative to the rest of the glasses apparatus, and talks about building touch-sensitive surfaces into frame to accept user input.
After a while irrelevant gestures began to accrue outsize meaning: glasses off, glasses on; arm stretched behind his head, arm back by his side; nodding his head to the beat for a few thrilling seconds, then stopping, as if there were no beat at all.
Instead of using a boot to keep a wheel from moving, officers can slap a Barnacle across the windshield, suction it to the glass, and arm it with a keypad.
Hold the glass at arm's length from the body until you feel tired.
Her cheek lay smushed against the glass, her arms were splayed, and while she still needed one leg to stand on, she'd lifted the other and pressed its bent shape to the window.
Samples for analysis of dissolved gas concentrations Ar, CH4, C2H6, CO2, H2, and N2 were collected under ambient pressure using glass side-arm samplers.
If they snap back on the glass, the arms can break the windshield, especially in colder conditions.
For all backyard chemists, chemical-resistant gloves (the yellow kitchen ones will do), safety glasses, and arm and body covering are mandatory.
During Oktoberfest, Germans in biergartens will lift a glass and sway arm in arm to a popular, schmaltzy German tune called "Griechischer Wein" ("Greek Wine").
