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...sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot - "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection of short stories published in 1950 - is another gloss on Blade Runner. The cop here is Spooner (Will Smith), investigating the death by defenestration of an inventor (James Cromwell) days before his company's new line of "automated domestic assistants" - home androids - is to be unveiled. Because he's the 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...
Perpetuating Pilates Romana Kryzanowska learned the body-conditioning method from its inventor and has taught it ever since...
...Setting the Record Straight Not the Inventor • Our MILESTONE on the death of Hollywood technical wizard Edmund DiGiulio referred to him incorrectly as the inventor of the Steadicam [June 21]. Although DiGiulio developed the Steadicam and popularized its use, it was invented by Garrett Brown...
DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, inventor of the Steadicam, a camera-stabilization system, and other innovations in cinematography; of congestive heart failure; in Malibu, Calif. He worked for many years with the director Stanley Kubrick, making possible the gliding camera work in films like The Shining. At the 2001 Oscars, he received a lifetime-achievement award for his technological advances...
DIED. ROBERT E. FULTON JR., 95, adventurer and inventor, best known for circling the world on a motor-cycle in 1932; in Newton, Conn. With the encouragement of his wealthy father, who owned Mack Trucks, the young Fulton took his 18-month trip home after completing school in Vienna. He later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook...