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This is why “Mad” Mike Banks, one founder of the seminal Detroit producer/DJ collective Underground Resistance, said “techno is deadlier than rap” even though the latter’s the one that yells in your face. Electronic music (modern hip-hop, which is indeed 95 percent electronic, is still 5 percent “real”) takes you from all angles. It implicates you directly as part of the phenomenon—forces (assumes, even) a response because it is effect. It could hurt you or captivate...
Google-Bombing, a recent trend among techno-savvy internet users that allows groups of united participants to manipulate Google’s search technology, has already resulted in several widely publicized cases of internet mischief...
TECHNOLOGY: Home digital-photo printers get better; techno toys for, uh, your...
...Techno playthings are stealing the show at this year's Toy Fair in New York City. Eto ($35, available this spring), from the Ohio Art Co., is an electronic Etch A Sketch that connects to your TV and lets you create drawings, animated cartoons and mazes onscreen. The I Message Girls Barbie ($25, available in May) from Mattel comes with a toy cell phone that can send instant messages to the doll and receive replies. Of course, no toy show would be complete without a gaggle of robots. One of the coolest is the remote-controlled Robosapien ($100, available this...
...tier tech-support firms--Geek Squad, a house-call service based in Minneapolis, Minn., and DriveSavers, a Novato, Calif., company that fixes fried hard drives around the country. Geek Squad boasts that its clients include U2, Ice Cube, Ozzy Osbourne and the Rolling Stones. DriveSavers touts its techno-healing work for Sean Connery, Sting, Adam Sandler and the Stones again (someone should tell Keith Richards to stop trashing his laptops...