Its symbol is the veil, a graphic device that conveys the conflicting desire to conceal and reveal.
After a little retailer slip-up and some leaks started pulling back the veil on the device earlier this week, LG went ahead and confirmed that they'd be using the show as the launch pad for their new Android flagship (with Glasses-free 3D!), the Optimus 3D.
Surveillance, visual stimulation, Rashomon effects, parallax, multiple perspectives, transparency, opacity, veils, lenses, framing devices: the technology of perception becomes fundamental to a continuing process of negotiating the elastic boundaries between public and private space.
They include sleek silver cell phones, saucy metallic clothing accented with hands-free devices, veils of woven electronic circuits, office partitions fashioned from the same slinky material as Speedo swimsuits.
Second, through the device of the "veil of ignorance," people are conceived as equals in the "original position".
27 July: A teenager with an explosive device concealed under her veil blows herself up at a university campus in Kano, injuring five police officers.
You start up your device and lift the little "veil" common to Metro devices, and you are presented with a picture.
Shadow, translucency, reflection, refraction, dappling, stippling, blurring, shimmering, vibration, moire, netting, layering, superimposition: these are some of the visual devices used to render the veil in contemporary design.
But last month Tri Alpha lifted the veil slightly with two papers revealing that its device, dubbed the colliding beam fusion reactor, has shown a 10-fold improvement in its ability to contain the hot particles needed for fusion over earlier devices at U.S. universities and national labs.
However, fitting the iPad with an antiglare screen and positioning the device away from sources creating reflected (veiling) glare resulted in acuity measurements that were equivalent those made using gold standard charts (n=29).
