For a start, in an age when manufacturers are battling to make mobile telephones lighter, CoCyph's extra ounces might prove a drag on sales.
In August, when an armed man robbed a gas station and police helicopters were scouring the area for the culprit, the telephones lit up with elderly citizens concerned there had been a terrorist attack, said Karleen Smith, an advertising sales representative.
My conferences with him, always on the telephone, were light and without speed bumps as we made our way through the strawberries, the extinguishings, and the resurrections, until we came to the Members' Enclosure.
History is littered with examples: the formulation of calculus, the discovery of vitamin A, the development of the telephone, the light bulb, the jet engine, the atom bomb.
As more people gathered, some began to scale to higher ground, perching themselves on the roofs of bus stops, as others shinnied their way up telephone and light poles.
The less essential words/signs Mara responds to now are: dog, fish, shoes, bird, dance, music, apple, baby, cat, hot, flower, telephone, duck, light, fan, frog, lion, jump and more.
Worshipers will line the roadside holding up their mobile telephones to light the way for Pope Francis when he arrives on his visit to Mexico next week.
Voice control, long the stuff of science fiction and computer lab experiments, is popping up in more and more mundane household devices like clock radios, MP3 players, television remotes, telephones and light switches.
Mr. Tarr, 32, the owner of Tarr Technology Consulting, which designs and installs high-end residential audiovisual, computer, telephone and lighting systems, said he had lived most of his life farther south on Central Park West, most recently in a one-bedroom apartment at the Majestic, at 72nd Street.
