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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gregg Garnick learned a lesson about control the hard way. In 1994 he started a technology business in his basement with $100,000 in personal savings. His company developed video-capture cards for laptops, the forerunner to digital-video-disc technology. When the business started to grow, Garnick went to a venture capitalist. By 1996 Garnick's company had come up with the technology for DVD decoding. Says Garnick: "We were the first company in the world to demonstrate working dvd capability...
...middle, with a pasty complexion. But a new gadget could get gamers off their butts. The GameCam, from Reality Fusion, is a digital video camera that sits atop your PC. Using motion recognition, the camera captures your image and projects it into one of six games on an accompanying disc. You control the action of the games, and sometimes even work up a sweat, by vigorously moving your body. No word yet on Tae-Bo for gamers...
...WITH MUSIC Now that virtual greeting cards from sites like Blue Mountain Arts are all the rage, what's next in techno-hellos? Well, for one, there's a new customizable birthday card on CD-ROM. For $9.95 you can create a disc with music, backgrounds and animation tailor-made for your pals or kinfolk, picked from a catalog of offerings at greets.com The personalized CD-ROMs also include extras such as lists of celebrity birthdays and a horoscope for that very special person...
...proves that dance music can be accessible without losing touch with its roots. The beats are as solid and inventive as one would expect from an artist who has been at the epicenter of jump-up drum 'n bass for years, but it is the sampling that makes this disc more than just forgettable rave fodder. Aphrodite's usual hip-hop soundbites are topped with a mix of organic, ambient clips ranging from jazz horns to ethereal female vocals. Especially notable is the fun treatment of the rude saxophone lick from DJ Kool's party anthem "Let Me Clear...
...Disc jockeys, of course, have been around for decades. In the 1970s hip-hop founding fathers Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash helped turn record spinning into an art. And rock acts--Aerosmith, R.E.M. and others--have long sought to bottle the lightning of hip-hop by collaborating with rappers. Today, though, something new is happening: more rock groups--from Limp Bizkit to Sugar Ray--are making deejays fully fledged members, on equal footing with the guitarist and drummer. A couple of years ago, being a deejay in a rock band was maybe the equivalent of being the backup vocalist-designated...