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...know music relaxes the mind," says Osim representative Alan Tan. For those interested in revving up, the chair can also stimulate. "You can see an exciting movie, watch a concert, or just watch MTV and feel like you're there," Tan says. Sound from the TV or hi-fi translates into pulses in the chair, allowing daredevils to feel like they're swinging from the rooftops with Spiderman, while dancers can shake it with OutKast without ever getting up from the chair. Osim introduced the iSymphonic AV in Asia this spring, and a version without the video hookup will...
...every album sold, compared with the $1 or less many other major artists make. Back in the 1980s, Davis promoted Mannheim Steamroller by offering its trademark mixture of New Age melodies interspersed with sound effects (notably in the Fresh Aire CD series) to stereo and hi-fi dealers as demonstration tracks. Since then, he has set up a specialized distribution network, allowing him to sell at more than 40,000 non music retail outlets, including sporting-goods vendors, supermarkets, greeting-card emporiums and truck stops...
...science-fiction films is to be reminded of the frailty of man's prophetic powers. Who would have guessed that some new ideas would fall out of favor (manned space travel) and some old ones would last (that 19th century gizmo the internal-combustion engine)? The fashioner of sci-fi Utopias or dystopias is advised to keep it simple and avoid embarrassment later...
Tough cops, car chases, killer bots--the sci-fi action-movie format is starting to rust. Director Alex Proyas used to be able to spiff up the genre; his Dark City and The Crow created vivid, lurid nightscapes. This time, even given a lavishly muscled superstar and a murder plot with a soft heart (Sonny is a member of a minority the prejudiced cop has to learn to love), the gifted visualist goes all pedestrian and impersonal...
...Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Can a fantasy fan dream a little and predict that by 2035 sci-fi movies will come up with inventive new ways of frightening us about the future...