Innovation - virtual keyboard

This is a innovation technology of keyboard that is illuminated by narrow laser beam. Touching the surface of keyboard, you could type message. This technology help you to type on wide space when you use mobile phone.

Advertisement - Corsets for children

This is an advertisement of corsets for children of 1886.

The most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette. For women this most frequently emphasizes a curvy figure, by reducing the waist, making a very narrow.

(go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corset)

Patent - Liquid crystal display

Liquid crystal display device selectable between wide view angle display and narrow view angle display

United States Patent 7834833
A liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix, a plurality of TFTs connected to the pixel electrodes respectively, and a plurality of gate lines and data lines, on the inner surface of one substrate of a pair of substrates facing each other via a liquid crystal layer. A first opposing electrode for forming, between itself and the plurality of pixel electrodes, a vertical electric field parallel with the direction of a normal line of the substrates, and a second opposing electrode for forming, between itself and the plurality of pixel electrodes, an oblique electric field obliquely inclined from the direction of the normal line are formed on the inner surface of the other substrate.

Literature - La porte étroite (The narrow door)

La Porte Étroite is a French novel written by André Gide published in 1909. It is very sad and moving story which probes some of the complexities and terrors of adolescence and growing up. Based on a very Freudian interpretation, the story uses the influences of childhood experience and the misunderstandings that can arise between two people.

(if you want to read the plot summary go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_porte_%C3%A9troite)

Light - Church of the Light

This is a inside church that was designed by Japanese architecture Tadao Ando. The front wall is cut in cross with narrow line, and the sun light enter from it. Moreover the wall is cut from end to end, so you feel the inside space is very wide.

Paintings - The Japanese painting

In Japan there is a traditional painting of character called Syuji. Using a soft lead of pen, you could paint thick line and wide line at once.

Fashion - The corset

The word corset is derived from the Old French word corps, the diminutive of body, which itself derives from corpus - Latin for body.

The corset has been erroneously attributed to Catherine de' Medici, wife of King Henry II of France. She enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance during the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women's primary means of support was the corset, with laces and stays made of whalebone or metal. Other researchers have found evidence of the use of corsets in early Crete.

The  hourglass corsets, emphasized width - they tended to have very wide skirts, large sleeves and sloping shoulders. These elements contrasted with the narrowed waist, making it appear smaller than it actually was.

(go to  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corset)

Textile - new technology of the material

The picture shows the section of texture and the outside view. By the section, the texture is made of outside surface and inside material with about 1 cm of thickness.  To obtain the thickness, many thin plastic wires are put in position with narrow space. And the texture  seem to have wide size

Things - Subway gates

The subway gates oblige a large amount of people to converge in very narrow passage.

In this way, yuo can get a very good control of all the people fluxes in a pubblic space.