Word: smarts
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...Internet service providers, are acting as corporations do and trying to turn a profit. But we the users, Facebook addicts, and literature researchers alike, need to watch carefully to make sure this essential principle doesn’t fall by the wayside. For if the network gets too smart for its own good, who knows what great procrastination tools of the future will never make it to our desks?Matthew A. Gline ’06 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Amazing Allysen from Playmates is a smart doll for the tween set. She's programmed to learn a child's preferences--favorite colors and hobbies, best school chums--and work them into conversation. Armed with a vocabulary of more than 100 words, Allysen speaks in the recorded voice of a real girl. Her ability to process voice commands--a technology that hasn't always worked so well in the past--is supported by sophisticated software, her creators say. The animatronics controlling her face are finely tuned to produce subtle facial expressions that are perfectly suited...
Harvard must lack talented athletes. That’s just the way it’s supposed to be, because if you’re smart, you can’t possibly be good at sports. So next time you hear me or another Harvard sports naysayer complain, don’t argue...
MANY TV SHOWS can set you on pins and needles. But only this one is about pins and needles. This competition among aspiring fashion designers, heading for its second-season finale in March, stands out because its smart, bitchy, funny competitors have brains and artistic aspirations beyond basic-cable fame. And no reality host is more dryly funny than Tim Gunn, the designers' mentor, whose derision for a badly made outfit cuts like a well-honed pair of shears...
WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A tasteless dating show--a squad of socially challenged nerds paired with intellectually challenged hotties--became TV's most sweet-hearted reality series. In the platonic pairings, the guys teach book smarts and the women teach their partners social skills while competing for a $250,000 purse. (A version with smart chicks and beefcake studs is in the works.) Both groups build confidence and learn what they have in common. It's a rare series that, by playing to stereotypes, ends up disproving them...