Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by SixSigma on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:58AM (#8928378)

and just about everyone says "hoover" not vacuum cleaner

I bet it would take along time for most people asked "how does a vacuum cleaner work?" to use the word vacuum, apart from as a name for the object.

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Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by losvedir on Thursday January 22, 2015 @09:52AM (#8929390)

Nah, "hoover" is just your dialect. American here, grew up in CA, and I've never heard or said "hoover".

But yeah, I wouldn't say "vacuum" as a method of action unless you really drilled down. (Something about "pump" and "sucking", but I'd have to think for a bit to get to the actual physical "vacuum" aspect of it.)

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Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by SixSigma on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:08PM (#8930626)

You're right, I meant to type "in the UK" somewhere but it seems I forgot

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Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by aidenn0 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:44PM (#8930851)

In Indiana, a lot people said "sweeper" and they "sweeped" the room with it.

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Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by mod on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:26PM (#8931160)

Can confirm, Hoosier here.

Also 'clicker' for remote.

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