Many of them say that there are treasures gathering dust among the hundreds of thousands of unused patents owned by large companies.
iPhone / iPad More physics-puzzling in Chillingo's latest game, albeit with more of an action focus as you swing knights through levels on grappling hooks, gathering treasure, dodging enemies and rescuing princesses along the way.
A new unit introduced in Age of Empires III is the explorer, which is chiefly responsible for scouting and gathering treasure but is also capable of building Trading Posts and has a special attack, used at the player's command.
Maybe you even popped inside once and browsed its shelves, perhaps buying some games or models, treasures that are now gathering dust in your parents' attic, underneath stacks of VHS tapes?
However, they tend to be "proud of their accomplishments in gathering together rare treasures of aesthetic delights," said Mr. Perrell.
Commerce, agriculture, mechanical pursuits, professions all were abandoned for the purpose of gathering the glittering treasure which lay buried in the ravines, gorges, and rivers of the Sierra Nevada.
It is stuffed with gold doubloons, the treasure I have accumulated by gathering the bonuses and raises that would have gone to Those Who Would've Gotten It Except for That Black Guy.
Interviewees referred to gathering as a "treasure hunt," or "Easter egg hunt," and revelled in the "highs" they obtained from the discovery of a lush patch of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) or a windfall of chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius) mushrooms.
"This is the behavior of a compulsive hoarder who could not stop gathering and possessing the documents he treasured," Wyda said.
"L.A. was everything to him," says the late guru's stepson Dan Doyle, caretaker of the treasure trove of LaLanne memorabilia, inventions and videos gathering dust at his Morro Bay home and at an Oakland gym.
There is a palpable sense that Twain is gathering momentum as the volume closes; the real treasures may be yet to come, and the next volumes apparently include a majority of the previously unpublished material.
