"Our sensor's greater sensitivity means it has the ability to distinguish smaller movements, like slightly moving one finger side-to-side rather than simply whether the whole hand is open or clenched in a fist," explained graduate student Vanessa Sanchez, co-author of the paper describing the material, in a Harvard news release.
In this mode, one finger moves the cursor relative to its current position, similar to the trackpad commonly found on notebook computers [41].
Now 34, Mr. Ankilewitz lives in Tel Aviv and works as a 3-D animator, despite weighing only 39 pounds and being able to move only one finger on his left hand.
(Scott) '39 POUNDS OF LOVE' (No rating, 74 minutes, in English and Hebrew) Afflicted by a rare disease that keeps his weight at 39 pounds and allows him to move only one finger, the 34-year-old animator Ami Ankilewitz nevertheless dreams of riding a Harley-Davidson.
Then he moved on, from one finger to the next, unsettled, unsettling, guttural sounds slipping from his twisted mouth, until I finally (finally!) realized that he was looking for her.
The structure was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, working with Mr. Bertoia and the industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss, who was responsible for the vault door, which is so well balanced that its 30 tons "can be moved with one finger," Ernst Danz wrote in "Architecture of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1950-1962" (Frederick A. Praeger, 1963).
The strong sense of self that you used to have has been lost (and you're not moving even one finger to find it).
If someone turns on the light by flipping the switch, flipping the switch is more basic than turning on the light (because one cannot flip the switch by turning on the light), but moving one's finger is unqualifiedly basic, since one does not do it by doing anything else.
I wonder how many of his egg sandwiches, whole pizzas or vats of pasta could be burned off by rhythmically moving one's fingers up and down on a keyboard?
