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...effort to keep topping itself, Hollywood is taking time-tested crowd pleasers-namely, talking animals-further and further into the digital realm. Dr. Dolittle 2, in which Eddie Murphy talks to computerized critters, will still be in theaters when Cats & Dogs, a whiz-bang homage to Chuck Jones and James Bond, enters the fray. "We have to deliver images that audiences have never seen before," says Cats & Dogs' director Lawrence Guterman. "It has to be funny-otherwise there's no movie-but at the same time you have to deliver something new." That effort has gone on for two years...
...Connor's performance remade that most stable of archetypes, the TV Dad. He prefigured Homer Simpson and Al Bundy; he took Ralph Kramden out of the realm of buffoonery and carried him to his logical extreme; he took the omniscient, benevolent TV dad of the '50s and exploded that figure as irrevocably as a gunpowder-stuffed tobacco pipe. Sure, this was a slap in the face of conservatives, who chafed at the show's Norman Lear liberalism. But the O'Connor's genius was that he played the part well enough to discomfit ideologues on the left too. Archie Bunker...
...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...
Remember your first day of work? You were nervous, trying to make a good impression, processing endless streams of information. Happily, that day ended at about six o'clock, and you were released back into a familiar, and, one hopes, less stressful realm of sleeping, eating and socializing...
Here's how Anoto's technology works. Printed on the digital paper are microscopic dots within a near-invisible grid of 2 mm by 2 mm squares. Each square is unique, and in the realm of mathematical possibility there are enough such squares to cover the surface of the United States - four times. The digital pen, or Chatpen, as Anoto has christened it, contains a tiny infrared camera that recognizes the patterns and essentially photographs, 100 times a second, the pen's interaction with the paper. In this way, it "reads" what's been written. The pen then processes...