Word: bionic
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...when Captain America famously punched out Hitler. And as TV horned in on the comics audience, its superheroes reflected our moods in war and peace. The 1950s had its straight-arrow Superman; the 1960s, a campy Batman. After Vietnam, we saw comforting images of super-Americans (Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man and Woman); after the cold war, postmodern parodies (Space Ghost). Call it coincidence or prescience, but a new generation of prime-time superhero is arriving for a new decade and a new war. Smallville (the WB, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) and The Tick (Fox, Thursdays...
...MCCAIN'S BIONIC INTERN...
...Peoria names seven city blocks after him. Note to self: bone up on racial profanities and consume copious drugs ALEXANDER KARADJORDJEVIC Son of King Peter II returns to Belgrade palace after Milosevic vacates. Keeps 900-number Rolodex, but tosses Benny Hill bootlegs JOHN MAJOR Life and times of this bionic man will be made into West-End musical?no wait, that's Lee Majors. Who exactly is this guy? Losers IRA EINHORN Old hippie activist is finally extradited for the murder of his girlfriend. Says a government plot kept him stoned in the Riviera for 20 years INDIA...
Then there's CyberGrasp. Slip onto your hand what its makers, Virtual Technologies Inc. of Palo Alto, California, call a "lightweight unencumbering force-reflecting exoskeleton." I'd suggest it's more like a "twitching, cumbersome bionic-man device," but, then, p.r. isn't really my thing. That said, I like what it lets me do. On a computer screen a 3-D image of a ball appears as well as a representation of my hand, which I control by moving the big, spiderlike exoskeleton I'm wearing. As I manipulate the ball, the fingertips of the CyberGrasp sense the force...
...people most about their PC's mouse are the trackball (or "gunk collector") and the cord (too long or too short yet always in the way). The solution? Logitech's Cordless MouseMan Optical ($75), on sale at logitech.com Having traded in the trackball for an optical sensor, this wireless bionic wonder has only one flaw: an insatiable hunger for AA batteries...