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...stunt car on a Michael Bay set. In an age when potential action heroes seem to be either rugged '80s relics like Ford and Sylvester Stallone or sensitive thespians willing to double up on their bench presses like Tobey Maguire and Orlando Bloom, LaBeouf is that rarest of screen creatures, the scrappy kid next door. "Shia is within everyone's reach," says Spielberg. "He's every mother's son, every father's spitting image, every young kid's best pal and every girl's possible dream." With his giant brown eyes, lanky frame and indiscernible ethnicity (he's Jewish...
While it is fascinating to see touch-screen technology used in the iPhone and other devices [June 25], a part of the population is greeting it with much distress: people who are blind. Equipping appliances such as microwaves and washing machines--not to mention voting machines--with touch screens will cause a "one step forward, two steps back" situation. If designers can figure out a way to not leave the blind behind, we can truly celebrate the technology of touch...
...Whether it is yesterday’s unfinished newspaper still sitting on my kitchen table, or a postcard from a war years past, I like to touch my news, hear it crinkle, feel its weight in my hands. If I rub my computer screen so lovingly, it just gets dirty...
...also still love the paper half of the news, we can pretend that my article was written on the back of a real postcard, and let’s say the picture on the front was a war memorial statue. Then tilt your laptop to the size, fold the screen a bit, and pretend you are holding a newspaper...
...think that dreams and the Internet are similar?" asks Paprika. "They're both places where the repressed conscious mind vents." But the place where the detective will unlock his mystery is a movie palace, the dark cathedral where the communicants' separate obsessions become one dream on a giant screen. And the most fluid form of movies is animation. Paprika is both an argument for and a demonstration of animation's power to put us into a state of alert hypnosis. Watch the images that float by, the impulses that pass from the characters to you. You are getting... very... dreamy...