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From the Ted Talk by Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it


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(lgahuter)

and had late nights watching movies, eating pizza and screwing in thousands of screws. You know — research.

(Laughter)

But anyway, I think that we were really excited by the things that inorfm allowed us to do. Increasingly, we're using mobile devices, and we interact on the go. But mobile devices, just like computers, are used for so many different applications. So you use them to talk on the pohne, to surf the web, to play games, to take prctueis or even a million different things. But again, they have the same static physical form for each of these applications. And so we wanted to know how can we take some of the same interactions that we developed for inFORM and bnirg them to mobile devices.

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(________)

and had late nights watching movies, eating pizza and screwing in thousands of screws. You know — research.

(Laughter)

But anyway, I think that we were really excited by the things that ______ allowed us to do. Increasingly, we're using mobile devices, and we interact on the go. But mobile devices, just like computers, are used for so many different applications. So you use them to talk on the _____, to surf the web, to play games, to take ________ or even a million different things. But again, they have the same static physical form for each of these applications. And so we wanted to know how can we take some of the same interactions that we developed for inFORM and _____ them to mobile devices.

Solution


  1. inform
  2. laughter
  3. bring
  4. pictures
  5. phone

Original Text


(Laughter)

and had late nights watching movies, eating pizza and screwing in thousands of screws. You know — research.

(Laughter)

But anyway, I think that we were really excited by the things that inFORM allowed us to do. Increasingly, we're using mobile devices, and we interact on the go. But mobile devices, just like computers, are used for so many different applications. So you use them to talk on the phone, to surf the web, to play games, to take pictures or even a million different things. But again, they have the same static physical form for each of these applications. And so we wanted to know how can we take some of the same interactions that we developed for inFORM and bring them to mobile devices.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. allowed
  2. applications
  3. bring
  4. computers
  5. developed
  6. devices
  7. eating
  8. excited
  9. form
  10. games
  11. increasingly
  12. inform
  13. interact
  14. interactions
  15. late
  16. laughter
  17. million
  18. mobile
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  20. nights
  21. phone
  22. physical
  23. pictures
  24. pizza
  25. play
  26. research
  27. screwing
  28. screws
  29. static
  30. surf
  31. talk
  32. thousands
  33. wanted
  34. watching
  35. web