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...more thorough listen to the production on this album quickly banishes the need for any comparisons. The tape is saturated with a woozy, beautiful wall of sound—lo-fi, to be sure—that’s all Grizzly Bear’s own. “There’s a lot of sort of hissing and background noise [on Horn of Plenty] sort of just because I wasn’t pro at it,” Droste says. “I ended up just sort of keeping it.” The album...
...good songwriting—will inspire record labels to demand higher artistic standards in their other acts. And lest we forget, 2004 also had lots of great rap albums. Madvillain, the brainchild of emcee MF Doom and producer Madlib, broke out of the underground with a relentlessly unique Lo-Fi collaboration. The absurdly gifted young producer Kanye West picked up the microphone and silenced his doubters, proving himself a witty and charming new voice. Eminem returned from a two-year break with—well—something completely different, a record that sometimes seemed unfocused, but always remained interesting...
...fi (wireless fidelity) is the cable-free technology that lets people surf websites and check e-mail while sitting in a Starbucks, an airport lounge, a hotel lobby, a city park or anywhere close to an antenna. The technology has grown dramatically in recent years: French research firm IDATE counts 130,000 hot spots in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, and U.K. research group Analysys predicts that by 2009 there will be over 38 million wi-fi subscribers in the U.S. and Western Europe alone. Most observers believe that its next big step will be the introduction of WiMAX...
...Another wireless challenge is in the home. Although households, especially in the U.S. and Asia, are increasingly popular places for wireless networks, wi-fi has difficulty handling large video files. That's because its speed is not always fast enough to transport movies without glitches; you may have noticed the problem when trying to beam Bridget Jones's Diary from the computer in your living room to your TV in the corner. Several companies are working to develop another wireless technology called UWB (ultra wide band) that provides 10 times the bandwidth of wi-fi. Although UWB signals...
...connectivity between all consumer electronic devices in their homes and offices. This is the new reality." Of course, the biggest test for all the Pioneers is: Will people actually use their technology? There are, for instance, at least half a dozen technologies vying to become the next-gen wi-fi, and only one will win. Take it from Cooper, the grand old man of ArrayComm, who says, "everything takes longer than you think, because people take time to change.'' But then, he notes, people balked at the PC and the cell phone...