Word: virtually
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...from the odd situation of having a side project get larger than anything most of them had ever done before. Certainly there will be more lunacy and oddball vocals. Gorillaz get a lot of criticism for being ostentatiously and deliberately genre-blending, poppy and the first “virtual band.” There once was a time people welcomed innovation from those able to synthesise different ideas into an appealing whole. Love them or leave them, they may well be the sound of the future. “It’s coming on, it?...
...products are avatars, digital cartoon characters that stand in for real people in Internet chat rooms. Freechal started charging for avatars last June. Already the company has captured some 110,000 Korean customers who spend an average of about $2.30 a month each on outfits and accessories for their virtual paper dolls. Doesn't sound like much, but it adds up to a $2.4 million boost to the local economy every year?generated by a company with no factory floor, whose only tangible product is intellectual property...
...costume jewelry on display. Like any fashion designer, Ryou is looking for inspiration for her next collection. But you'll never see mannequins strutting her stuff down a runway. Ryou is head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range of styles: punk rocker, gangster, curvy superhero. To do so, though, you have to pay real-world cash. Says Ryou: "Romantic is going...
...opening its household electricity market to foreign competition. French officials in Brussels cited the recent California energy crisis and the Enron scandal as evidence of the perils of opening up the sector to privatization. Strange then that the French national electricity company EDF, flush with cash from its virtual domestic monopoly, has been snapping up energy utilities in countries where the market has already been opened...
...physical forms of sex. “I realized that I never talked to a guy more than once,” she says sullenly. “And as far as the sex, it was never as good as the first time.” Her interest in virtual sex dwindled away...