There's no wiper to clean the broad span of glass on the rear hatch; Acura says a rear wiper would have compromised visibility.
To wit: a group of researchers, led by postgraduate student Hui-Shyong Yeo at the University of St Andrews, has come up with a tilt-based typing technique designed — at first glance — to be an alternative for users of larger smartphones (phablets) or tablets; to enable one-handed typing, i.e. when your palm won't easily stretch across the full span of glass.
While early Modern houses, with their thin uninsulated walls and wide spans of glass, were chilly in winter and broiling in summer, for example, this house has thick south and east walls with small windows to control temperature, in the manner of traditional desert architecture.
It's very likely that targeted nuclear strikes on popular holiday destinations, turning pristine beaches and charmingly rustic hotels into a silent span of black glass that bubbles underfoot as the radiation-burned survivors pathetically crawl for the sea, will be a much-needed boon for our traditional hospitality industry.
I have never had any success really connecting to someone in the span of two glasses of chardonnay.
He stuck with classic wood-beam construction, but in place of the old four-walled box structures that produced small, dark rooms, he essentially turned the boxes into towers spanned by broad sheets of glass that allowed for wide-open spaces framing spectacular views.
Through glass entry doors, the home opens to a living and dining room area with vaulted ceilings, stacked-stone accents and retractable walls of glass that span the entire length of the room.
This gorgeous rip-off is located in Zhongshan China and, as MICGadget notes, it's probably the best looking one yet complete with a massive glowing Apple logo and wall of glass windows spanning the two-story outlet.
The Institute of Steel Construction and Lightweight Structures at RWTH Aachen has already developed an emergency single-lane road-bridge for MLC-12 and a span of 20.0 m utilising glass-fibre-reinforced-polymers (GFRP) composites, which has been tested successfully under real conditions.
At certain points the unusual curvature of a window, created by the building's odd geometry, makes it impossible to span the opening with a single piece of glass, and the additional mullion creates an odd, patchwork pattern.
"I'm having the most fun I've had since the early 1980's," Mr. Joseph said, sitting in a room full of glass trophies for completed deals that span his 40-year career.
