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...Here and there Cannes hosted films of graphic sexuality: not just The Piano Teacher (with occasional glimpses of porno movies) but The Pornographer, Bertrand Bonello's study of a director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who was once the king of hard-core; now he comes out of retirement, only to find that the rules have changed. The film includes some porno footage that, as aspiring actresses used to say, is absolutely essential to the plot. And it is, for it shows that the subtleties our veteran director insists on have no place in the wham-bam-merci-madame demimonde...
...SPRING 2001 Actress Pui Fan Lee, who plays Teletubby Po, stars in a graphic BBC series as a sex-crazed lesbian...
...going on in Taejon, at the Korea Research Institute, is a very basic example of what could be the most interactive technology of the future: brain-computer interfaces. Early computers were controlled by cardboard punch cards; the first PCs demanded typed DOS commands; the mouse gave us a graphic interface. Will we one day be able to enter the world of computing with no external mechanical intermediary whatsoever - in other words, just by thinking? Researchers around the globe are working on the problem. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, for example, has developed the Adaptive Brain Interface...
Trash Your Hotel Room, a program that lets players assume the role of rock maniac on the road, is just one of the many ideas for interaction at broadband TV channel MTV Live, which will launch in Sweden and France in June. Want to be a graphic artist? Viewers can assemble virtual environments and e-mail their creations for consideration as background images. Is screenwriting more up your alley? MTV Live will let you select characters and write dialogue for short videos. Would-be maestros can mix and submit music to serenade MTV Live presenters. The new channel will also...
...point. After all, I'm jotting down his words in my notebook, not keying them into a computer. And unlike reporters, many people need more than words to express themselves: architects, engineers, graphic designers, artists. Sure, you can "draw" on graphics tablets, but these are no real substitute for pen and paper. Then there's the two-thirds of the world that doesn't use the Roman alphabet. You can get keyboards in Chinese and Hindi, but speed is a problem if you have to hit several keys to make a single character. Writing is intuitive, natural...