Word: robotical
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...tracks sound fussed over, but they're also full of surprising grooves and are primed for club play. It's the vocals that could use a remix. Like Laurence Fishburne's oddball Morpheus in The Matrix, Madonna tries to accentuate the plight of humanity by enunciating like a robot. Her mechanical rap at the end of the first single, American Life--"I'm drinking a soy latte/I get a double shote/It goes right through my body/And you know I'm satisfied"--may be ironic, but it's also thoroughly annoying. There are a couple of other techno dogs, most notably...
Should Israel really be proud of this man? Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers is arguably the most pathetic show in television history. Abraham fathered a great nation. Moses led us from Egypt and gave us the law. Saban? He gave us strange robots that morphed into a larger robot, to defeat grotesque puppets and weird men in gray spandex called “puddies...
...Right Now is a strange collage of spoken word, lo-fi electronic beats and startling dissonances, refusing to be mainstream in any sense. At once the most impressive and the most alienating feature of the album is Beans’ lyrics, which are undeniably virtuosic but delivered in stuttering, robot-like fashion. They’re highly poetic—Beans has actually been published as a poet—but the lyrics sound too conscious of their own literacy, which robs the music of much of its emotional impact. He often sounds like he’s rushing...
Kids who are hospitalized for long periods by trauma or chronic illness risk falling behind in school. Now robots are here to help. PEBBLES (Providing Education by Bringing Learning Environments to Students) have rolled into five U.S. pediatric centers --in Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Md.; New Haven, Conn.; Miami; and Chicago. The robots, created by Toronto-based Telbotics, work in pairs. One with a 15-in. LCD screen for a face goes to school in the absent child's place. The other remains in the hospital, transmitting an image of the child's face to the classroom. Using a video-game...
...says retired Admiral Harold Gehman, head of the investigation board, "what you find in the end has no bearing on what you thought you had in the beginning." That would include a problem that first bit NASA four decades ago--one that this time didn't just damage a robot ship but took seven lives. --By Jeffrey Kluger. With reporting by Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral