Interestingly, unobtrusive objects, when perceived to be important — like a rare "ruyi," or scepter in parcel-gilt silver of the 16th century — caught the eye of a collector from mainland China, despite its heavy oxydization.
The problem of getting people to feel comfortable with such a powerful machine will be partly solved by putting it inside one of the most unobtrusive objects in the house: the set-top converter, which is the featureless black box on top of a cableconnected TV set (the one the cat likes to sit on if the VCR is occupied).
Unobtrusive target for taunting.
Ticket agents watch for behavioral traits characteristic of hijackers, and other employes man unobtrusive equipment that can detect metal objects, such as guns, as passengers walk by boarding gates.
Who could object to exploiting this unobtrusive investigative tool, if the payoff were a vast fiscal windfall and the elimination of tax evasion?
Unobtrusively, because social media is unobtrusive.
In Rams's formulation, a new object should be innovative, useful, aesthetic, understandable, unobtrusive, honest, long-lasting, thorough, and environmentally friendly, and feature "as little design as possible".
Evans typically employs a head-on viewing angle and stark but unobtrusive frontal lighting in his photographs, which are, in turn, conceived as unsentimental, unmotivated objects.
And yet, despite the best of intentions, the proposal is at risk of being thrown out by hardliners who object to any further meddling in the school curriculum – even if the addition is unobtrusive and, by all measures, frankly incredibly useful.
Such a concept is beneficial, for instance for safety applications where objects located in a dangerous environment that do not permit direct access by hand can be manipulated, or where unobtrusive and robust magnetic beacons can warn of imminent health risks.
