DocumentCode :
1388011
Title :
A different kind of multith reading [Tools & Toys]
Author :
Schindler, Esther
Volume :
47
Issue :
12
fYear :
2010
fDate :
12/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
21
Lastpage :
22
Abstract :
My Aunt Yetta sewed quilts- and most of her family´s clothes- on an antique treadle sewing machine that was powered by her foot. The next 50 years of technological innovation added electricity and the zigzag stitch and that was fine. As long as a machine could stitch patches of fabric to one another to create a quilt top (called piecing) and could sew together the quilt´s bottom and top layers with batting in between (the actual quilting), we quilters could make our pretty blankets, quietly upgrading from one machine to another without missing a stitch. Today, though, if you open up a highend sewing machine, you´ll find that inside it´s eerily akin to your latest PC-jammed full of printed circuit boards, USB ports, memory cards, and user interfaces driven by touch screens.
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9235
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MSPEC.2010.5644772
Filename :
5644772
Link To Document :
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