Word: camera
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...power of hardware in a networked world," including the MS Walkman, a tiny portable device that plays digital music stored on Sony's 64-megabyte Memory Sticks (hence the MS), and a digital video version of the rewritable MiniDisc that lets you perform tricky cuts using the camera as an editing studio. MORE...
...invasion of privacy that bothers me. My privacy is invaded in so many ways by so many different entities each day that I'm getting used to living in a glass house. When I step into a bank or an elevator and see a video camera overhead, I know I'm being recorded; the camera is usually right out there for me and everyone else to see. When I use my credit card to buy a meal, I know that American Express is recording that I've chalked up yet another overpriced expense-account lunch. And I know that AmEx...
...action who has always been in command of his world accepting dependence and even folly: as he goes up to a maitre d' to shake his hand, Grunwald is told that he has just greeted a statue of a monkey. The eye, we learn early, is not just a camera but a "portal of light." In that respect, as in many others, this lucid, elegant book is a piercing reflection of (and on) the way that...
PRINTS CHARMING You bought that nifty digital camera for a cool $500 (or more), but after a while looking at pictures on a fuzzy screen gets tired. Now you have two new options. Upload your faves to eframes.com which will print them on glossy, 4 x 6 photo paper, mount them in stylish frames and mail them to anyone you choose (for $11-$27 apiece). Or get Hewlett-Packard's PhotoSmart P1000 ($400), a camera-ready combination photo/inkjet printer that works as well for 8 1/2-by-11-in. cover letters (at 11 pages per minute) as it does...
...again. This photograph, called A Great Day in Boston, is--as acknowledged by the photographer--a direct quotation of a famous photograph taken by Art Kane in 1958 called A Great Day in Harlem, which showed a very large and proud group of seminal jazz musicians smiling at the camera...