Among the products featured is Allium, a spherical lampshade made from peacock feather-shaped slats.
Samsung is attempting the latter with its S2, a spherical, screen-less player nicknamed Pebble.
That tactic may work with spherical chocolates, but squashing militant union leaders is trickier.
Equipped with three 8-megapixel wide-angle lenses the camera captures an almost spherical field of view.
The Spherical Drive System would allow for zero turning radius, and a vehicle extremely easy to ride.
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You can get digital, though, with HDMI and Toslink outputs on the back of its spherical surface.
It's not the weak sort of take-off either -- this spherical delight can really grab some air.
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Drinks ordered on the rocks are chilled via large spherical ice cubes that both look elegant and melt more slowly.
The spherical lens has allowed Zebra to print something called a hogel, a mini-hologram of the entire image.
The secret of the Duke device is a spherical lens, a design first proposed in the late 19th century.
Spherical chips would also be able to do things that flat ones cannot.
Among these, we include the "bubble, " a clear spherical shield that travels with you, blocking out unwanted dirt and noise.
Zebra came up with a spherical lens that records a much wider field of view from each point of the hologram.
There is still, however, one technical problem ahead: the need for multiple spherical chips to be linked into reliable working clusters.
Allison Armour-Wilson and Peter Rogers combine an all-white herbaceous border with futuristic spiral sculptures and a pool with a spherical fountain.
Butz said the six "ovens" formed naturally as a result of spherical deposits of quartz eroding out of the phyllite rock face.
Spherical children distressingly round, and big enough to put their own lives at risk are the latest walking health-hazards to hit the nation's streets.
Although very effective spherical lenses exist naturally the human eye, for example researchers have long found it tricky to accurately focus images using lab-made versions.
To maintain an accurate image, the XV-Z15000 includes Keystone Correction, which corrects spherical, cylindrical and trapezoidal distortion of an image on a flat screen.
This suggests either that they are happening outside the Milky Way or that they occur in the spherical halo that surrounds its main disc.
Its near-spherical wheels spin on some complicated gimbal system, allowing it to hang a sharp left without describing anything as tedious as a curve.
As for the hardware itself, the mic arrangement means things can be neatly contained in one spherical shield, rather than two extremities on some stereo recorders.
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Spherical video cameras record 360-degree views of the 17, 000-student school.
Most crucial are the photovoltaic panels covering each spherical home.
And from the looks of this demonstration, I think that this type of spherical drone is a lot more stable than a quadrocopter, thanks to its wings and gyroscopes.
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That's where the similarities end -- while the Touchstone is cylindrical and uses a proprietary wireless charging system, the Nexus 4 Wireless Charger is larger, spherical and Qi-compatible.
That allowed them to take into account the way the eyeball, which is actually more pear-shaped than spherical, drags the eye's lids and brows slightly when the gaze swivels.
Goudey, the director of the MIT Sea Grant's Offshore Aquaculture Engineering Center, has devised a system by which giant spherical cages of fish would drift underwater in circular ocean currents, or gyres.
To be classified as a planet an object has to orbit the sun, have sufficient mass for its own gravity to make it roughly spherical and it must clear the neighbourhood around its orbit.
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