Word: cheapness
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...night of the election, CNN claimed to display “holograms” of reporter Jessica Yellin and musician will.i.am. The wonky, Star Wars-themed image was a cheap stunt, and it existed only in the camera, not in the studio. But true holograms are commercially viable, as are a host of other emerging optical technologies, such as 3D optical data storage, LED lamps, and virtual retinal display, which is like projecting images directly onto the retina...
...what we crave—and “Saw” provides—is justice: quick, painful, and cheap...
...want that in the real world, too. As the “Saw” franchise really started to heat up with the third release, the media responded with a flurry of articles about how torture porn raises our appetite for actual torture—quick, painful, cheap justice. President Bush tried to sell us his own Jigsaw level of certitude, marketing himself as the decider, the protector of the homeland, the banisher of the evil-doers, and we elected him—twice. Last week proved that we’ve learned our lesson: Absolute justice may be attractive...
...Cheap NYC Sleeps. It's near impossible to find a decent hotel room under three figures in Manhattan, but now there's The Jane. The hotel is famous for having sheltered the survivors of the Titanic, and the rooms do sort of resemble ship's berths, with a mere 50 sq. ft. of space and a shared bathroom down the hall. But they're just $99 a night, putting the hip hotel's price within hostel range: Private rooms cost $125 per night at the Big Apple Hostel and $80 at the Chelsea International Hostel downtown. The Jane is still...
...naval operation: a mission to fight piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia. Since the beginning of 2007, the E.U. has had 15 'battlegroups', each with at least 1,500 soldiers, dealing with local crises around the globe. "They are not just chicken, they are not just cheap. They have real resource problems," says one high level NATO diplomat of European governments. (See pictures of piracy in Somalia...