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2 unusual facts about D-pad


Joypad

D-pad, a flat, usually thumb-operated directional control on most modern video game controllers and remote controllers

Roll 'n Rocker

The device was designed for the player to step on the Roll 'n Rocker and control the D-pad with the player's feet.


305th Air Mobility Wing

Having later commanded the Gemini 3 mission in 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Grissom was assigned as commander for the first manned Apollo mission, but was killed with the rest of his crew during a fire in his Apollo 1 capsule during a pre-launch rehearsal on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Florida in January 1967.

Analog stick

The analog pad used magnet-based Hall effect sensors, which was a unique implementation of the technology that was carried forward into the design of the Dreamcast controller as well.

Aprilia Tuono

Specs included Öhlins Racing suspension, OZ forged alloy wheels, Brembo 4-pad brake calipers and an Aprilia Racing titanium exhaust system with matching EEPROM.

Archy

Archy in large part builds on Raskin's earlier work with the Apple Macintosh, Canon Cat, SwyftWare, and Ken Perlin's Pad ZUI system.

AS-204

Apollo 1, scheduled to be the first manned Apollo flight, but the crew was killed on the launch pad

Beta cloth

It was implemented in NASA space suits after the deadly 1967 Apollo 1 launch pad fire, in which the astronauts' nylon suits burned through.

Breathing mask

Dust mask, a flexible pad held over the nose and mouth by elastic or rubber straps to protect against dusts encountered during construction or cleaning activities

Paint mask a flexible pad held over the nose and mouth by elastic or rubber straps to protect against paint mists or vapors

Cam engine

A relatively successful swashplate cam engine was developed by the bearing expert George Michell, who also developed the slipper-pad thrust block.

Chatham County Line

Wilson is the son of Charlotte poet Dede Wilson and was living in the Blue House, an infamous Raleigh crash pad and romper room for the areas hottest young musicians.

Chevron Renaissance Shopping Centre

The lounge was the launching pad for many great Australian performers such as Johnny O'Keefe, Ricky May and Colleen Hewett.

Claims adjuster

Laptop computers, pad, and other technologies make claims adjusting easier and consume less time.

FingerWorks

Founded by John Elias and Wayne Westerman of the University of Delaware in 1998, it produced a line of multi-touch products including the iGesture Pad and the TouchStream keyboard, which were particularly helpful for people suffering from RSI and other medical conditions.

Hearn Generating Station

On June 21, 2010, architecture firm Behnisch Architekten presented a proposal for converting the Hearn site into a three-pad arena.

HoloVID

Many corporations (Kodak, Immunex, Boeing, Johnson and Johnson, Aerospace Corp., Silverline, and others) use customized versions of the Six Dimensional Non-Contact Reader w/ Integrated Holographic Optical Processing, for applications from SuperComputer Surface Mount pad assessment, to Genetic Biochemical Assay Analysis.

Iwan Müller

Ivan Müller, sometimes spelled Iwan Mueller (1786 Reval, Estonia–1854 Bückeburg), was a clarinetist, composer and inventor who at the beginning of the 19th century was responsible for a major step forward in the development of the clarinet, the air-tight pad.

Leg before wicket

Several leading batsmen opposed the new law, including the professional Herbert Sutcliffe, known as an exponent of pad-play, and amateurs Errol Holmes and Bob Wyatt.

Lunar Lander Challenge

Unreasonable Rocket attempted to claim purses in both competition levels from Cantil, California on Oct 30 to Nov 1, and did make an 84 second pad-to-pad flight on the Level 1 competition, but did not successfully complete either level.

Matt Dunigan

A member of an athletically-inclined family, he attended Louisiana Tech, a school that served as the launching pad for Terry Bradshaw and other future professional quarterbacks such as Luke McCown, and Tim Rattay.

Mousepad

The Oxford English Dictionary tracks the term mouse pad to the 25 August 1983, publication of InfoWorld, and the predominantly British term mousemat to 17 October 1989, in the publication 3D.

Nancy Sexton

Since 2006, she is the CEO and co-owner with Alon Bar of 4881 LLC, a multifaceted platform, serving as a launch pad for creativity.

NES Max

Like many later controllers (such as those for the PlayStation and N64), it has "wings": handles that extend from the edges of the pad.

Net Impact

Its inaugural conference was convened by 13 graduate business students in collaboration with Dr. Mark Albion and a handful of members of Social Venture Network, an organization that has been a launching pad for several other organizations within the business and society movement.

Pad Thai

"The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem" episode of The Big Bang Theory ends with Leonard having a bad dream of Sheldon procreating by splitting in two after consuming too much pad Thai.

Paulson Mine

A US charter was obtained, known as the PAD&W of Minnesota, to allow construction to the mine and eventually to Ely to link with the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad.

Scratchpad

A scratchpad is originally a pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc.

Sean Boog

His launching pad into the music industry came when he was later introduced to Khrysis by critically acclaimed producer 9th Wonder.

Shenzhou 1

After a successful reentry it landed about 415 km east of its launch pad and 110 km north-west of Wuhai, Inner Mongolia.

SLC-2

Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2 - a rocket launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Sony Ericsson K610i

It has a slightly bigger 1.9 inch, 262,000 colour, 176×220 pixel TFT LCD screen, built-in email client, WAP and HTML browser and a D-pad for navigation.

Southampton University Boat Club

The club has been the launch pad for several World Class athletes, including Olympic Silver Medallists Per Sætersdal

Sovremenny-class destroyer

The ship's helicopter pad and telescopic hangar accommodates one Kamov Ka-27 anti-submarine warfare helicopter, NATO codename Helix.

Spiral Binding Company Inc

Western Pad and Tablet (now MeadWestvaco) becomes another of Spiral Binding's big clients, who hired Spiral Binding to bind their school notebooks.

Substitution cipher

In a mechanical implementation, rather like the ROCKEX equipment, the one-time pad was used for messages sent on the Moscow-Washington hot line established after the Cuban missile crisis.

The Maine Mall

Anchored by Bon Ton, Best Buy, JCPenney, Macy's, and Sears, the mall features over 140 tenants, a food court and several ancillary restaurant/retail pad sites.

Thermally conductive pad

In computing and electronics, thermal pads (also called thermally conductive pad or thermal interface pad) are a pre-formed square or rectangle of solid material (often paraffin wax or silicone based) commonly found on the underside of heatsinks to aid the conduction of heat away from the component being cooled (such as a CPU or another chip) and into the heatsink (usually made from aluminium or copper).

Tin Can Bay, Queensland

The seaside town is a popular holiday destination and launch pad to the aquatic playground of the Great Sandy Strait - a pristine waterway protected by World Heritage listed Fraser Island.

Top Design Australia

The designers were split into three teams and tasked with turning a small studio apartment into a bachelor pad for a celebrity client; actor Daniel Amalm, ironman Caine Eckstein, or radio hosts Ant & Beck.

VLS-1 V03

On August 22, 2003, at 13:30 (local time) an explosion destroyed the launch vehicle as it stood on its launch pad at the Alcântara Launch Center in the state of Maranhão in northern Brazil.

VSS Enterprise

The passenger-carrying commercial launches will initially occur at Virgin Galactic's launch pad at Spaceport America, near Upham, New Mexico.

Waconia, Minnesota

Paige Vigil, "super fan" contestant on Bachelor Pad season 3; was eliminated in the first episode.

World of Padman

Besides widespread game types like Tournament, Free For All and Team Deathmatch, World of Padman features three uncommon game types: Spray Your Color (spray a logo on the walls in the sprayroom), Big Balloon (similar to Unreal Tournament’s Domination), Last Pad Standing, and the recently added Capture the Flag.

X-ray astronomy satellites

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar Satellite was a NASA science spacecraft launched at 06:23:59.997 EST on February 24, 1996 aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket from launch pad 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, to observe the Earth's polar magnetosphere.

Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion

It ends with Zach tearing off pages of a large pad of paper which contain prewritten, largely self-deprecating jokes, while the Pacific Boychoir sings "The Greatest Love of All."


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