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...short work. Creature Comforts (1989) attached the comments of zoo visitors to claymated lions, bears and baby hippos, with sad and hilarious results. The trio A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995) were mini-epics starring Wallace, a staid, daft suburban bachelor inventor, and his brilliant, long-suffering dog Gromit. Park has now adapted to feature length his obsession with the forlorn wit of caged animals, with the quiet exasperation of rural English life, with complex machinery destined to go wrong--and with bead-eyed, lipless creatures who have more lower teeth...
...Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur and author. His most recent book is The Age of Spiritual Machines
FEETS, DON'T FAIL ME NOW Ever think about all that extra energy you generate just walking around? British inventor Trevor Baylis has. Baylis, whose previous brainstorms include a clockwork radio, has announced the founding of a company to manufacture shoes that produce power using the natural motion of walking. This summer Baylis plans to test his shoes in Africa in a walk across the Namib Desert during which he'll place a phone call to PM Tony Blair (who else?) using only power made by the footwear. That's one small step...
...next Library of Congress centenary too. He so embodies America in all its sprawling contradictory greatness: the Wilsonian idealist prepared to engage in ruthless Rooseveltian realism; the worshipper of system, order and science who is given to romance--with France, with revolution, with the American West; the practical inventor and tinkerer, yet endowed with the capacity to compose the most lyrical, most transcendent assertion of human liberty ever penned...
...your article "will Someone Build a Perpetual-Motion Machine?" [VISIONS 21, April 10], you stated that the theories of inventor Joseph Newman are "considered nonsensical." Having assisted Newman in his work for 17 years and edited his book The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman, I find your assessment to be inaccurate. A special master appointed by a U.S. district court found overwhelming evidence that a prototype of Newman's invention showed that "the output energy exceeds the external input energy." Newman's discovery has extended the law of the conservation of mass-energy into a new electromagnetic domain. Such extensions...