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What's not clear, however, is whether stepping up the pressure on Ankara will produce the E.U.'s desired effect. Turkey could withdraw from the accession process altogether, although that seems unlikely for now. Rehn, who's fond of train metaphors, recently trotted out another one. Turkey's E.U. accession is not a Eurostar, he said, but the Orient Express. It may not get there too quickly, but it will get there. Someday...
Because video drains batteries quickly, another challenge MicroOptical faces is installing an efficient power source in the glasses without generating eye-punishing heat or bulking the device up. Kokinakis says people tend to watch video in 20-min. vignettes while sitting on a train or plane, so the goggles may not need the same battery power demanded of notebook computers. For now, he says, the iPod gadget relieves you of having to tilt your head down or hold your arm up to look at the image...
...look very much like Afghanistan after the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet troops--sectarian or ethnic warlords battling for territory, with the backing of sponsors from neighboring countries. An Afghanistan-style civil war would provide international terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and Hizballah with fertile ground in which to recruit, train and battle-test a new generation of global jihadis...
Next up for Lo's company, which launched in June 2004, is creating networks that will enable video streaming in places like coffee shops, airports and train stations. Eventually, the company hopes to expand its U.S. presence, having already landed partners in Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Estonia and Slovenia. Networking products become commoditized so quickly that nobody bothers with innovation, says Lo. "It takes a bunch of fools like us to say these products have got to be better. Innovation is worth something even for a commodity...
...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...