Word: droids
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...standard cop-hero sociopath and also because he just can't stand robots, Spooner suspects everyone. Dammit, he suspects anything modern. As the U.S. Robots boss (Bruce Greenwood) says, "You would have banned the Internet simply to keep the libraries open." Spooner focuses his skepticism on a prototype droid named Sonny, the only creature in the room with the inventor when he died. Sonny, in the tradition of Jar Jar Binks and Gollum, was created by painting computer graphics over an actor (here, Alan Tudyk). It's a suave simulacrum that makes Sonny the film's most complex and human...
...Rival companies are racing to build more specialized machines. Matsushita, maker of the Panasonic brand, has developed a vacuum-cleaning droid with powerful dust sensors, while Sanyo is working to commercialize a remote-controlled guard dog equipped with a digital camera and mobile phone. Sony has taken a slightly different approach. While Honda researchers pursue the holy grail of the film Bicentennial Man?a mechanized butler?Sony's vision is closer to the sci-fi movie A.I., which features a boy-bot that offers unconditional robot lovin'. The company has sold more than 100,000 of its toylike AIBOs since...
TRADE FEDERATION/EMPIRE STARFIGHTERS In Episode I, Darth Maul tools around in a Sith Infiltrator and droid starfighters attack Naboo. The Empire's TIE fighters defend the Death Star...
ALLIANCE STARFIGHTERS The yellow Naboo N-1 starfighters square off against droid fighters in Episode I. Obi-Wan Kenobi flies a pared-down Jedi starfighter in II. In IV, the rebels rely on nimble X-wings...