Word: pixelization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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CHEAP $599 SAMSUNG SC-D67 Now that all the cool kids are shooting home movies on MiniDV--the new standard for digital video--Samsung's SC-D67 is a good bet. It's one of the cheapest MiniDV camcorders on the market, and with 390,000-pixel resolution and a digital image stabilization system, you won't suffer for having saved a few (hundred) bucks. www.samsungusa.com...
...should all get to know avatars like LiLi because programmers are trying to make computers more like us, and we'll probably end up working with them very soon. Pixel-dust personalities like LiLi are already in a few work arenas, like newscasting and fashion modeling, and computer-generated talking heads are never late, always friendly and don't demand a first-class seat. "LiLi's the cheapest veejay to travel with," says the man who made her, James Speck, creative director of Cowboy Water Design. "She never complains...
This conflict, of course, has forced many people to see sights they do not ever want to see. And determining which few of those sights the world shares has become a front in itself, a pixel intifadeh. The battle erupted on the Internet last December when msnbc.com sponsored a contest for the best news photo of 2000. The early leader was a picture of Mohammed al-Durra, 12, a terrified Palestinian boy screaming and hiding behind his father in the midst of a street battle in the Gaza Strip. Moments after the photo was taken, he was killed...
High-speed Internet connections, Web-enabled cell phones and billion-pixel-per-sq.-in. TV monitors are water 2.0. Not only don't they work (except for certain rumored customers in certain districts in certain unnamed cities), they're also substitutes for those things that do work (hard drives, basic long-distance service) but have come down so far in price over the years that these products are now known as "commodities," and no one can make money selling them...