Science or not, the machine strokes the dystopian futurists among people who fear that the government could one day tap into our innermost thoughts.
When subjects watched a stationary stripe on a computer screen after a machine stroked their fingertips, the motion of the stroking created the illusion that the stripe was moving.
But it's nice when a record achieves the sexy without using repetitive, overt bedding songs with "ooh baby" drum machine strokes to seduce.
Back in the day, FourPlay made their (very saucy) name performing instrumental covers of Rage Against the Machine, the Strokes, Radiohead and Sufjan Stevens, and This Machine marks the band's first album of entirely original material.
Even before the first teasing squall of metallic guitar rings out at the start of track one, the circumstances of its unveiling tell you quite a lot about Comedown Machine, the Strokes' fifth outing.
Ten specimens were cycled through three alternating demineralisations (1% citric acid, 5 min) and remineralisations (artificial saliva, 1 min) including brushing abrasion in an automatic brushing machine (2×2000 strokes).
The woman was fearless, almost inhuman, like a paddling, kicking, breathing machine, arms churning stroke after stroke without stopping.
Kristen Muschett, chief executive of aerospace test-equipment maker Habco, said the $35,000 matching grant was helping her explore the feasibility of manufacturing and marketing a new machine that helps stroke victims and other neurologically impaired patients learn to walk again.
Another song, For All Concern – you can find it on Hype Machine – strengthens those Strokes comparisons.
More likely he believes he can outlast anyone under oppressive conditions since changing his diet and whipping himself into lean, mean ground-stroking machine.
