His app, SmartLens, attempts to solve the problem of seeing something and wanting to identify and learn more about it — with mixed success, to be sure, but it's something I don't mind having in my pocket.
This form of human authentication removes the problem of forgetting something you know, but some object now must be with you any time you want to be authenticated.
The whole over-arching problem of creating something that isn't just an immersive environment, but also a world in which a cogent story takes place.
But they all have the problem of selling something — imaginary tractors, Internet films, discount deals or, in Facebook's case, someone "liking" a product — that is not quite real and perhaps less than essential.
New, young readers found in her work an idiosyncratic approach to the problem of storytelling, something handmade or unmade, each story like a cool thing from an old junk shop.
Not only was there the thorny issue of how to make rape allegations into a rousing show tune, but there was also the more pressing problem of finding something to rhyme with "Assange".
We aren't told why, but in view of his habit of gazing intently into the distance, I think we're supposed to assume that he (like Albrecht) has the Romantic problem of wanting something more than his society has offered him.
The new design is Bing's answer to the problem of "Search Overload," something many are familiar with — the feeling of being overwhelmed by the bramble of links, maps, tools, and options that prevail in today's search model.
On the one hand, Kant's arguments about the division between appearances and things in themselves, which gave rise to the problem of how something 'in itself' could give rise to appearances for the subject, might be overcome by rejecting the notion of the thing in itself altogether.
"When I think of a cosmetic problem, I think of something like the color of the paint," Mr. Kam said.
