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...close your eyes, fire a squirt gun around the room and listen carefully, you'll hear a different noise depending on what was hit (wall, rug, sleeping cat). That's the principle behind ELADIN, the newest idea in mine detection. By shooting water into a minefield and monitoring sounds, the system can detect and disarm explosives without setting them off. There's certainly no shortage of targets: tens of millions of mines lie buried in war zones around the world. INVENTOR David Summers AVAILABILITY Prototype only TO LEARN MORE eladin.umr.edu
...Cat III is equivalent to an X or NC-17 from the U.S. movie industry. But with one big difference. The existence of an adult classification inhibited American directors; they were unwilling to buck movie studios (which demanded an R or softer rating in contracts) or movie theaters (some of which refused to play non-pornographic adult fare), and simply stopped making rough films for grownups. In Hong Kong, movie people saw the new rating not as an inhibition but as a liberation. Now they could show ... anything! (Except hard-core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust...
...Because Cat III films were allowed to coexist with tamer fare in the same theaters, they didn?t have the toxic tinge that attaches to sexy and ultra-violent films elsewhere. In the U.S. and Europe, ?ultra? films are separate and lesser industries; for Hong Kong movie people, the line between mainstream and murky backwater is blurrier. Actors like Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Danny Lee and Kent Cheng shuttled with impunity from one category to the other. They played cannibalistic or necrophiliac killers, crazed cops and deranged victims in Cat III movies, then went back to standard action movies...
...Appearing in adults-only Hong Kong movies was tougher for actresses, who might be quickly and permanently typecast once they had bared all, and for whom Cat III was not so much a calling card for stardom as a brand of shame. Yet Loletta Lee could go from teen cutie (in ?Shanghai Blues?) to sex-film siren (in the Cat III ?Sex and Zen II?) to a Best Actress citation from the Hong Kong Film Awards (for Ann Hui?s ?Ordinary Heroes?). And Hsu Chi, the Taiwanese lovely who had posed pink for photo books - and who made her Hong...
...splatter film?s charge is to keep upping the atrocity ante as it zooms into the murderer?s soul. (?The Untold Story? manages this with the rape scene; ?Dr. Lamb? does it with Simon Yam?s obsessive sexual defiling of his latest corpse.) And the Cat III director?s game was to out-gross the competition, leaving the audience and his colleagues slack-jawed in flummoxed awe. That?s the only apt response to ?Red to Kill,? the masterpiece in the ITMFG collection - the killer vase among these grisly movie antiques. (The film is available in the U.S. on video...