
Pong-in-a-Dish
Ever hear of the Turk—the 19th-century mechanism topped by a turbaned head that played chess against all comers? In fact, hidden inside was a diminutive chessmaster, one you might imagine deadpanning, “Eh, It’s a living.” Then there’s its namesake, the Mechanical Turk—a 21st-century service offered by Amazon to mark up images on the Web with […]