Lögberg-Heimskringla - 03.12.2004, Blaðsíða 15

Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 3. desember 2004 • 15
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Eruption in Grímsvötn, Iceland
For almost a week in the beginning of November, a volcanic eruption occurred in
Grímsvötn at Vatnajökull. It was bigger than the eruption in 1998. An eruption occured
there also in 1934 and 1983.
Time recognizes Icelandic invention
Time magazine selected
Ossur’s high-tech Rheo Knee
as one of the world’s “coolest
inventions” of 2004.
Following the report in
Time on November 22, Ossur
published a press release on its
home page (www.ossur.com).
“The Rheo Knee, an elec-
tronically controlled prosthetic
knee joint featuring artificial
intelligence, represents a revo-
lutionary innovation in the
field of prosthetics. Developed
over the course of four years by
Ossur’s engineering team in
co-operation with the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technolo-
gy (MIT) in Boston, this new
knee-joint features a swing-
and-stance-control system pro-
viding appropriate resistance to
flexion and extension through
the use of a microprocessor,
integrated sensors, and an
innovative magnetorheologic
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fluid actuator.
“It is a source of great sat-
isfaction for Ossur to be select-
ed by a respected magazine of
world-wide distribution like
Time magazine as the source of
one of the coolest inventions of
the year 2004. The Rheo proj-
ect is one of the largest and
most complex development
projects ever undertaken by
Ossur. ‘This is not just a new
product,’ says Ossur CEO Jon
Sigurdsson; ‘it is an entirely
new technology platform that
we are bringing into the mar-
ket, and it is certainly attracting
deserved attention.’”
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Mixed up
in Icelandic
Shawn Ross Bryant lives
in Iceland. He tries to speak
Icelandic all the time and
says that it has caused a lot
of misunderstanding.
“For a long time I
thought that landslag (land-
scape) meant þjóðsöngur
(national anthem (land =
nation, lag = song)) and that
did not work too well. When
I went to Hofsós last sum-
mer, the people there said I
needed to leam some real
Icelandic. One day it was
very calm in the Ska-
gafjörður and I was told that
this was expressed as hland-
koppalogn. I have not been
able to use the word since.
“Last year I went to a
Thai restaurant in Reyk-
javík. I looked at the menu
and ordered something.
Then the waitress asked me:
“Vr'/fw eitthvað meðlætiT’
(meðlceti = side orders. Að
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vera með lœti = to misbe-
have.) “£■/• ég með lœtiT I
replied. “Nei, ég er hara
rólegurT
Recently I also created
some misunderstanding in a
movie theatre. 1 ordered a
Coke and they did not have a
straw with it. I could not
remember the word for a
straw and said: “Frtíken, get
égfengið slöngu (Miss, can I
have a hose)?”
Shawn Bryant is a
Canadian student at the
University oflceland.
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