Abstract: “Method and apparatus entraining interactive media players into a sustained experience of “Kinesthetic Spatial Sync,” defined as a perceived simultaneity and spatial superposition between a non-tactile, full body (“free-space”) input control process and immersive multisensory feedback. Asynchronous player input actions and (MIDI tempo) clock-synchronous media feedback events exhibit a seamless synesthesia1 or multisensory events fused into an integral event perception, this being between musical sound (hearing), visual responses (sight), and body kinesthetic (radial extension, angular position, height, speed, timing, and precision). This non-tactile interface process and multisensory feedback “look and feel” is embodied as an optimal ergonomic human interface for interactive music and as a six-degrees-of-freedom full-body-interactive immersive media controller.

Abstract: A connector for supporting an object engages channels 4 in a track 1. The connector is retained laterally and guided longitudinally thereon. A locking element located between connector and track is moveable longitudinally to effect a locking.backslash.unlocking action. An object 40 to be supported is secured to one part 36 of a two-part connector in which the two parts have a quick-attach fastening 32,42 between them. One part 5 is connected to the track 1 and the other part 36 is connected to the object 40. The quick-attach fastening comprises a spring detent 44 and release button 7.

Abstract: The device provides a fastener which somewhat resembles a slide fastener but which can be made at least substantially fluid-resistant. It comprises a first component (1), of flexible and resilient material, having an engagement formation having a longitudinal groove (6) and longitudinally spaced mating formations (10), and a second component (2), of similar material, having a rib (16) and longitudinally spaced mating formations (19). The components can be progressively engaged by the introduction of the rib into the groove and the interengagement of the mating formations. The latter prevent significant relative longitudinal movement between the components. Each component can be made by extrusion of a blank followed by the formation of the mating formations by a rotary die (123). The components can be engaged and disengaged by means of a slide (52) like that used in a conventional slide fastener.

Abstract: A computer is used to generate ideograms such as Chinese characters from an input of coded signals. The input device may be a standard ASCII keyboard having forty-four (44) keys with a shift key giving an eighty-eight (88) character input set. Combinations of two key strokes result in the ideogram being made ready for output, while certain other key strokes serve to combine one or more ideograms to generate more complex characters. The system will produce in excess of fifty thousand (50,000) characters with an average of less than four key strokes per character.

Abstract: A method of bonding a silicone rubber to a non-silicone pressure sensitive adhesive comprising the steps of treating the surface of the silicone rubber to be bonded with a silicone adhesive, and thereafter applying a layer of the non-silicone pressure sensitive adhesive to the treated silicone rubber surface.