Word: interactivity
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Still more variations of CD technology are on the way. Two giants of consumer electronics, Sony and Philips, are getting ready to unveil a CD device that comes with a built-in computer and can be hooked up to a TV set. A hand-held controller allows users to interact with the images on the screen. ! Sony and Philips, which call their new system CD-Interactive, hope it will be as big a hit as the music CD player. Philips conducted the first public demonstration of CD-I last month, and industry sources say the system could be ready...
...completed. "It was a very ambitious project," he says. "Finishing it in a month was amazing. We turned a neighborhood that was going to the pots. We really did something for changing [the neighborhood's residents] lives." The other was giving up his summer for "being able to interact with these people. [In this sense,] I didn't give up the summer; I received as much as I gave," he says...
...helping the poor, the Mexican graduate students were also doing something unusual. Says Wills, "it was neat for them because [college students] don't normally interact with the lower class. We provided a bridge which wasn't really planned, and that was very gratifying...
...project also gave some of the American students the opportunity to interact one on one with Mexicans. "I had particular fun with the kids and I realized that there was something wrong with one of them," Miller explained, saying that this child wheezed and the other kids made fun of him. "When I flew back to the States I was really bothered by this kid still being back there, having trouble breathing...
...world's standards for art, culture, cynical statecraft and consumer spending. The legacy of the Italian Renaissance is never far from contemporary tastes; its style and egocentricities survive wherever easy money, ambition and ideas flourish. Lofty mindedness and low animal cunning rarely had a better stage on which to interact. As Simon puts it, "The susurrus of silks dragging through pools of blood, chivalric elegance living with bestiality in high places, the silver rose boxed with the dagger, fidelity bedded with perfidy, remain a collage whose fascination has never quite faded...