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...Homage to Patagonia” (Yellow) offers an interesting array of Eastern instrumentation blended with complex percussive work. “His Majesty King Raam” (Yellow) opens with a bewitching keyboard melody reminiscent of a nursery rhyme. The tracks from the other EPs, while filled with an similar, more commercial assortment of gentle, sleepy beats and merry melodies, spliced with the most random of random vocal samples, fail to inspire as much enthusiasm...
...Nervous Tension,” in particular, with its ceaseless pounding bass, is just plain dull. There’s always a tendency to doze off while listening to this album, which is not at all displeasing, but does not make for the most exciting music. But the simple keyboard melodies, looped around the urban beats and guitar riffs, lend a peculiar ambience to the entire album. It’s just a bit boring (or should I say soporific) at times. Perfect to fall asleep to. —Tiffany I. Hsieh...
...Soft Technology Easy Squeezy Britain's ElectroTextiles, with international design group IDEO, has dreamed up two varieties of soft cell phone: a pocket mobile and a wrist device. It's ElekTex material combines conductive fabric with microchip technology. A PDA-friendly soft keyboard that can roll up in a pocket is expected next year. ElectroTextiles sees no end of applications for ElekTex, including clothes and toys. Next stop the beanie phone...
Born to a poor family in Lucena City in the southern Philippines, Eyestrain first tapped a keyboard when he was 12. His school had just received its first computer, and it was love at first byte. "I couldn't get enough," he says. "As soon as I sat down at it, I got it." He skipped lunch hours and stayed late after school to get a turn at the terminal. Neither of his parents?his dad is a machinist, his mom a store clerk?had even used a typewriter. Hungry for more than he could learn in his small hometown...
...Nokia will be showing off its Media Terminal, a souped-up set-top box for the living room, which enables full Internet access over TV broadcast networks. Features include a split screen that can show both TV and the Internet, a remote with built-in keyboard, the ability to pause or replay live broadcasts, digital TV that records to a hard disc, video on demand, a file audio player, e-mail, 3D games, digital radio and connections to devices such as printers and cameras. For its part Hitachi will be showing how smart cards can be inserted into...