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...cyber-pooch in question - AIBO, or Artificial Intelligence 'Bot - for two years now, I've seen Sony's high-end consumer toy go from a $2,500 limited-edition fad to a relatively mass-market, mass-produced $1,500 fad. But what transpired last Saturday afternoon at the Sony Metreon, San Francisco's massive multiplex and temple to all things techno, made me believe AIBO is leaving the realm of novelty and entering the living room and hearts of Mr. and Ms. Mainstream...
...more entranced than Aldea, a 29-year-old data programmer whose alter ego is a cool groover named 8-ball. Aldea has been jamming to DDR for a year now, and he loves how his agile antics draw crowds at San Francisco's Metreon super-entertainment complex. "This is all about performing," he says. "It's about making eye contact with the crowd and feeling their energy spur...
...have garnered him three dance awards for freestyle interpretations of the rote game that at first glance seems more suited to copycats than creative artists. In February, Aldea was the first DDR performer around to use a cane during a routine. More than 200 people packed the neon-lit Metreon showroom to watch the bespectacled dancer clamber onto the dance platform and coolly follow the game's flashing foot-pad squares while adding a show-off flair all his own. That swaggering, 180-beat-per-minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous contests Aldea...
Performers at the cavernous Metreon complex, who can wait up to half an hour to pay $2.50 for a turn at the machine, can't help but add a little personal oomph - a shoulder jiggle here or a hip swing there. Maybe that's because the DDR is strategically placed next to the space-age bar, so a little beer can help wannabe dancers loosen inhibitions. "You want to make the moves all your own," says Aldea, who also deejays hip-hop gigs. "That's what makes the routine last in people's minds for more than a few minutes...
They oohed as animated football players threw one another to the ground. They ahhed as vividly colored martial artists gouged each other's eyes. The crowd huddled around ultrathin TVs earlier this month at the Metreon, a four-story Sony entertainment palace in San Francisco, was getting a sneak preview of Sony's much-touted PlayStation2. And they were loving...
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