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...Kamen's bid to "give the disabled the same kind of mobility the rest of us take for granted"--a six-wheel machine that goes up and down curbs, cruises effortlessly through sand or gravel, and even climbs stairs. More amazing still, the IBOT features something called standing mode, in which it rises up on its wheels and lifts its occupant to eye level while maintaining balance with such stability that it can't be knocked over even by a violent shove. Kamen gets annoyed when the IBOT is called a wheelchair. It is, he says, "the world's most...
...Medford, it must be said, was so impressed that he is taking a sabbatical at DEKA, though he remains on the government's payroll.) To make the machine even safer, it comes equipped with three computerized keys that set speed and performance limits. The slowest setting, now called training mode, used to be jokingly referred to around DEKA as CEO mode...
...chance to play a female character named Turkey but she did, in Stephen Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle vendor, for which she was again nominated by the Academy. She was back in psycho mode for Four Faces of Eve, a movie in four dislocated parts shot by Kar-wai's noted cinematographer Chris Doyle. And in Sylvia Chang's Tempting Heart, she plays a bisexual with yearnings for both Hong Kong actress Gigi Leung and Japanese-Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. Mok may not get marquee roles...
...there exist many face-saving alternatives to puppets. The English department might allow adapted, satirical theatrical works modeled after Shakespeare, East Asian Studies grad students might put on Noh plays, chemistry students could create intricate marionettes that caricature professors entirely in ball-and-stick model form— whatever mode of catharsis toots each departmental horn. I imagine a designated “satire week,” in which students from various departments present their lampoons to the cheers and jeers of Faculty, simultaneously bonding with their instructors and addressing the fundamental power asymmetry intrinsic in the teacher-student...
...INFOCOMM TM510 The external LCD screen is one of those features every clamshell-style phone should have--it lets you see who's calling without fumbling around to open the phone. The light, compact TM510 has other extras worth paying for too, like voice-activated dialing, a vibrate mode and a phone book that handles five numbers for each of 199 names. www.lginfocomm.com...