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...inventor of that euphemism must have had the 2005 Harvard softball team in mind when he designed the phrase...
...drive-through, and there's a chance--a small but growing chance--that the voice coming back through the speaker is miles, or even states, away. Fast food has met the call center, and for that you can thank Steve Bigari, a McDonald's franchisee and part-time inventor in Colorado Springs, Colo. For the past two years, customers at seven of his restaurants have chatted with call-center workers across town who key in orders and then shoot them back to the restaurant, where computer monitors tell the grill guy what to grill, a drinks-and-fries person what...
...don’t usually fancy myself much of an inventor, not since my failed Homework Machine of the early nineties. Even so, I think I may have something good here. I call it the Leftie Language Translator (the LLT 1.0). It’s still in the prototype stage, but I have high hopes...
...film is a tale of a world populated by robots, in which a young bot named Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor) is dissatisfied by small-town life with his poor parents (Dianne West and Stanley Tucci). He travels to the prototypical big city to meet the heroic inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks) but is overwhelmed by the bustle of city life and corporate greed. Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) and his conniving, demonic mother (Jim Broadbent) have taken over Bigweld’s plant and, instead of serving the robot public, look to suck every penny out of them with expensive upgrades...
...Young inventor Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) has come to Robot City to present his gadgets to revered Mr. Bigweld (Mel Brooks), whose company has been subverted by his underlings' plan to phase out all old robots with the ad line "Why be you when you can be new?" Rodney's allies in the good fight include feisty young Piper (Amanda Bynes) and garrulous old Fender (Robin Williams...