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...films have always portrayed the house of the future with sleek lines and magically appearing appliances capable of performing the most onerous of household tasks with just the simple touch of a button or a voice command. And while there still may not be a way to get out of actually scrubbing your tub, smart-home technology is giving the homeowner a level of automation futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall-to-Wall Wiring | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...biggest names, including Galina Ulanova, who danced the definitive Romeo and Juliet in the 1950s, and her contemporaries, the couple Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev. During the height of the cold war, it remained one of the Soviet Union's most potent exports. Beautiful and mysterious, the Russian dancers' sleek lines and avant-garde choreography dazzled Westerners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retaking Center Stage | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...familiar buttons. This happens in the work of the collective of four Russian artists who operate under the name AES&F. Their pictures of kids flourishing heavy weaponry in futuristic wastelands count too much on our response to the poses of fashion photography. Maybe you can arrive at some sleek, sexy images that way. But at that point, you're not making conceptual art. You're trying out for the next Prada campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: If You Build It They Will Come | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Yard, it can satisfy any Harvard student’s technological needs. Finally, the hours you devote to e-mail, Facebook.com, Google, YouTube, phone convos, text messaging, drunken party photos, and the sonorous beat of “SexyBack” can be spent in the company of one sleek Apple device. Kicking back, you struggle to remember what life was like without the iPhone, back in that dark time before 2007. Thankfully, the memories quickly fade as you drown them out with the melodic crooning of Justin Timberlake and the obnoxious tones of Aleksey Vayner...

Author: By Firth M. Mceachern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: iLove the iPhone | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...they're atypically large in a city of closet-like accommodations. Collins leaves his materials - limed oak, rich leather, creamy cotton - largely unembellished and judiciously uses lush color, like the paisley-patterned wallpaper that could be 21st century William Morris. His best touch combines beauty, comfort and whimsy: the sleek white rocking chair moves like your grandpa's but looks like modern sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

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