"And then all of a sudden they've got twenty-five bagso so my sensors start going off".
"There's some other neat stuff, like when I have a meeting with someone on my calendar, all my sensors lock into that, so instead of getting a LinkedIn profile, I'll get how they made me feel the first time I met them.
For example, if the temperature in my room – as read by my Netatmo sensor – goes below a certain point, it will notify the Wemo and turn on a heater.
"You have my gigantic sensor!
When I went travelling for the first time with my Rebel, I only had the (excellent) 50mm f/1.8 lens, which translates to a mild 85mm telephoto on my cropped sensor.
My own sensors are in a disadvantaged state because I'm the parent of two very young boys and at the same time I've taken this big teaching job [as Disney professor of creative writing at Pomona College, California].
Sure, they kicked our asses for years in terms of wireless media, cellphone design, and PC/laptop manufacturing but at this late date I think the iPhone can kick any DoCoMo clamshell and I haven't seen a single thing here — NOTHING, mind you — that I haven't seen or heard of in the U.S. already and that would even mildly twiddle my neophilia sensors.
Some of the bonds formed were healthy and supportive, some were indulgent, an attempt to seek out any endorphins I could sense the potential for, my pleasure sensors bereft and desperate.
The blood pressure cuff cinching my arm, the sensor clipped on to my finger, the nurses in their filmy polythene aprons – to accept these quotidian things was to be open to everything.
Gen. Tommy R. Franks, commander of the military operation in Afghanistan, has called the Predator "my No. 1 sensor for tracking down Al Qaeda," according to Lt. Col. Douglas Boone, the Air Force officer in charge of acquiring spy planes.
When I saw the press release advertising a revolutionary new "back-illuminated" sensor, my BS sensor went to red alert.
