Word: cyborg
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Bazooka Tooth, the star of Aesop Rock’s fifth album, embodies modern humanity’s dark side with mechanical precision. He’s a cyborg with “diamond-cutter spine” and “armadillo armor that bends around the blades,” an arrogant pimp who rocks Timbs and spits “low-life game...
...says Baron. "The ultimate stimulus for our nomadic generation." Taking the notion of cell phone as appendage, architect David Rockwell called on the tattoo for inspiration and created a voice-activated Patch Phone, right. "It addresses how to connect the phone to a person's body, not in the cyborg-implant kind of way but similar to a nicotine patch," says Rockwell. It could also become fashionable, like a piece of jewelry. Just remember to turn...
GHOST IN THE SHELL. The classic anime, directed by Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Beautiful Dreamer), tells the story of a super hacker—the Puppet Master—who is loose in cyberspace. The “ghost” is pursued through a futuristic metropolis by the cyborg cops of Section 9. Meanwhile, Major Motoko Kusanagi searches for her own humanity within her robotic body. Based on Masamune Shirow’s original manga, the anime is a must-see for Matrix fans—it served as direct inspiration for the Wachowski brothers. Ghost in the Shell screens...
...future world savior John Connor (Nick Stahl) is now a whiny teenager who needs help from his surly robot pal (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a school chum (Claire Danes) to escape the machinations of blond killer cyborg T-X (Kristanna Loken). The Messiah metaphors that helped make the first Terminator a superior entertainment are now just the givens: boy and girl in peril, with one protector and one implacable pursuer. At its metallic heart, T3 is another chase movie--one figure relentlessly tracking three others, mostly in cars, at high speed through implausibly underpopulated Los Angeles streets...
...business standpoint," he says, "it's hard to launch new names. Everybody knows what Dragnet is. It's a pre-emptive name." That's important to Wolf, who has often stumbled when he has gone off-brand, with flops like Mann and Machine (a cop partners with a cyborg), D.C. (Washington interns wrestle with politics and love) and Deadline (reporter solves crimes). So Dragnet resembles L&O as much as its forebear: more grisly murder cases, less slow-paced police grunt work and plenty of topical plots...