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...this as a barrier for her to cross, but rather another feature of a country still confused with its own identity. In the film, which is narrated entirely in the first-person by Lusztig, she describes her visit to Bucharest as eliciting a “phantom nostalgia,” a sense of longing for what had once been a charming cosmopolitan city, the “Paris of the East,” until it was demolished during the last Communist regime in Romania. One rather humorous comment in the film from Lusztig’s mother describes...
...website! No fetters, no editors, no quality control. On amazon.com, for example, customer reviews are displayed prominently on the page of each book or CD being peddled. Authors are also encouraged to write about their works. In 1999, this notice for the sound track of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" appeared, signed by the score?s composer John Williams: "I remember writing Anakin?s Theme. I was sitting on the toilet, watching General Hospital, when all of a sudden I turned. The water plops brought together a syncopated harmony that I found to be ? obviously the theme...
...most part people on the lower end of the economic spectrum who can least afford it. Although states have sued tobacco under the theory that smokers impose huge Medicare costs, in the end, as the Philip Morris study suggests, the government may be soaking smokers to pay for a phantom expense...
What Nicolelis is describing is a reverse phantom limb. Instead of continuing to feel the presence of a limb that is no longer there, people equipped with a brain-computer interface could operate new appendages, and the brain would eventually come to regard these as its own. But what could a person do with a remote robotic or virtual limb? The possibilities range from the mundane to the otherworldly. In the virtual realm, these appendages would dispense with the bulky technology of conventional haptics and allow Web shoppers to squeeze a peach online to see if it's ripe. Video...
...Southern California's Fisher Gallery in Los Angeles, experts are creating special 3-D images of the museum's Chinese teapot collection via laser photography. The pots can then be "touched" by anyone, anywhere - as long as they have some fancy (and still fairly bulky) equipment like the Phantom, produced by SensAble Technologies Inc. of Woburn, Massachusetts. A stylus attached to the desktop device transmits force feedback to the user's fingertips. Following a model on your computer screen, you run the stylus over the "body" of the virtual teapot in the air and feel its curved, slick exterior. Move...