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...audience too enthralled to obsess about originality. And yet there is something unique about her trips to the past: Supernature shimmers along with an electric buzz like a dangerously overloaded socket, enlivening the edge between human voice and machine. "I think that's why we love old analog synthesizers - like the Mellotron, which tries to imitate a human sound, an acoustic sound that's a bit wrong somehow," says Goldfrapp. They even break their own rule and plug in a guitar for the first time on the Marc Bolan glam-rock stomp of Ooh La La and Satin Chic. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Siren's Call | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...Ironically, the most trouble you can run into is if you have one of the latest high-definition cable boxes. Telling an HD box to send out the old-style analog TV signal required by the Slingbox can be daunting, and in some cases, next to impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slingbox Internet TV Streamer | 8/3/2005 | See Source »

...only the audio that dampened my film appreciation. In a cozy apartment near Dupont Circle, the 12-watt subwoofer was okay, but there wasn't enough power or clarity coming from the built-in 5.6-watt speakers. The good news there is that the Cinego has analog and digital audio outputs, so you can connect your own stereo pair, or even a 5.1-surround sound amp and speakers if you like. But then you'd lose the ability to watch-and-dash (or, at home, watch-and-stash). In the morning, to my host's chagrin, I packed everything back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinego D-1000 Instant Theater | 5/25/2005 | See Source »

...days running, I couldn't get my WiFi hookup. The French are hopeless with anything computer-related. Europe is soooo analog. When you think about it, all the top technological innovations have come from either America or Asia. I mean, the French haven't invented anything useful since the late 19th century: movies. Unless you count Robert Bresson's invention, 50 years later, of reeeeeally slooooow movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary V: Blog blog blog | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...pseudonyms: our assailants were “esqu1n4”, “_TGm_”, “Stealh”, and the mysterious “S.” They also left the address of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. IRC is the online analog to a seedy downtown bar scene—an enormous world-wide free-for-all of public chat rooms where people conduct all sorts of business from arguments about obscure topics in system administration to cruising for dates or trading copyrighted music and movies...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anatomy of an Attack | 5/3/2005 | See Source »

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