Word: sockets
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...Show Your Bones,” due out this March, will sound more like a dull White Stripes imitation than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ searing previous work. Where on their debut album, their sound was packed full of edge, passion, and finger-in-the-socket guitar innovation, the new sound of the band, or at least what can be gleaned from their latest track, is comparatively conservative. The guitars are still distorted and the drums still heavy-hitting, but it seems that they have turned the volume down from eleven to about seven and a half. Let?...
...tried to process it cognitively. "Unfortunately, the wrong things that you need to do to build [panic disorder] are the logical, sensible, reasonable things-focus on the situations in which it might happen, and try to control them. Well, you might as well put your finger in a wall socket...
...Another very cool snap-on accessory is the AAA battery charger. Although you can already plug the headset into a wall socket or, as I just mentioned, one of four existing car chargers (sold separately), you can also keep a battery stashed for an emergency juice-up. Just stick the battery in a lipstick-sized case, and snap it to the charging cradle where the tiny headset rests. You can't charge while talking in either scenario, but that would get messy anyway and besides, it only takes three hours to fully charge it up for five hours of talk...
...Like the magpie Scissor Sisters and other light-fingered musicians, Goldfrapp shamelessly borrows past pop genres, playing to an audience too enthralled to obsess about originality. And yet there is something unique about her trips to the past: Supernature shimmers along with an electric buzz like a dangerously overloaded socket, enlivening the edge between human voice and machine. "I think that's why we love old analog synthesizers - like the Mellotron, which tries to imitate a human sound, an acoustic sound that's a bit wrong somehow," says Goldfrapp. They even break their own rule and plug in a guitar...
...spent millions to modify a handful of gas and diesel-powered Mercedes Sprinter vans into plug-ins, which will be tested as early as this fall by commercial partners in the U.S., such as utilities. Chrysler says the vans can run 20 miles on batteries charged both via the socket and, like the Prius, by braking. Cost will matter, says Rolf Bartke, head of the Mercedes-Benz van division. "In the end it should be viable and economic for our customers." Bartke says the aim is to bring the battery cost down below $10,000 within four years...