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(02/13/02 6:00am)
Until about 5 years ago, unless you had access to professional
facilities or a few thousand dollars to spare, the only way you
could edit or dub your vacation videos was to connect two VCRs and
be fairly adept with a remote, or else risk losing that
unforgettable shot of Junior launching a spitball into the Grand
Canyon. The explosion of relatively affordable digital video
hardware has had an unprecedented impact on home moviemaking,
imprinting our memories on our desktops and compressing them for
friends and family to view over the Internet.
(01/30/02 6:00am)
It is the cornerstone of digital audio'a medium embodied in
matchbox-sized desktop players and king-sized lawsuits. It
stimulates our eardrums while we are checking our e-mail or
commuting.
(12/04/01 6:00am)
In these final tense weeks of the semester, many students feel
like they will never get every term paper completed, every test
studied for and every holiday gift bought without something
important being left on the proverbial back burner until the last
minute. Some still swear by old-fashioned sticky notes and strings
tied around fingers, but others have turned to a unique class of
electronic organizers known as personal digital assistants. Devices
based on an operating system called PalmOS, manufactured by Palm,
Inc. and associated companies, are among the leading models of
PDAs. (The devices were introduced under the trade name of
PalmPilot, which is still commonly used colloquially but has not
been used commercially since the Pilot pen company sued for
trademark infringement.)
(11/20/01 6:00am)
It's an overcast Sunday afternoon. Your favorite NFL team is on
a bye week and the thought of studying turns your stomach, so you
microwave a bag of popcorn, pop open a can of your favorite
libation ... and then turn on the computer and click on a movie
icon.
(11/06/01 6:00am)
In 1895, Professor Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a strange new
type of radiation. After some experimentation, he had his wife put
her hand between a cathode ray tube and a piece of
radiation-sensitive paper, and found that he could readily see the
shadow of her wedding ring and of the bones in her hand. He called
the mysterious radiation an X-ray, from the mathematical use of X
to stand for an unknown, and so began the science of medical
imaging.
(10/17/01 6:00am)
It is one of the most versatile and formidable new technologies
in existence. Its applications range from the manufacture of
blazingly fast passenger trains to the development of specialized
bombs with the potential to obliterate an enemy's firepower using
methods formerly exclusive to the realm of science fiction.
Superconductivity not only has the potential to fill the most
impatient individual's need for speed but could also save
lives.
(10/03/01 6:00am)
How would you like to live to see the Badgers go to the Sugar
Bowl or meet your tenth-generation grandchildren? You may think it
impossible, but some people hope to do so through cryonics'the
process of freezing a human immediately after death under the
assumption that technology will someday be advanced enough that the
person may be reanimated and brought back into a healthy existence.
Those who can afford it can choose to either have the entire body
frozen or, in cases of clearly irreparable deterioration, the head,
in hopes of returning it to a healthy body in the future.
(09/19/01 6:00am)
Are your desires to be digitally urbane constantly hampered by a
PC that freezes every time you breathe oddly? Or have you developed
an unsightly rash or a flu virus you just can't shake, and the
doctor can't do anything but dismiss your symptoms as lack of
sleep? The next 20 years may see a decrease in positive responses
to these and similar questions due to the rapidly emerging field of
nanotechnology.
(01/29/01 6:00am)
In the most crowded race in the city, four candidates will
compete for the District Madison Common Council seat in the primary
election, Feb. 20.
(01/26/01 6:00am)
When the word hypnotist comes to mind, some think of a
sinister-looking character in black with spinning white globes set
deep in an imposing brow. The seductive voice behind the eyes has
the power to make people do anything the hypnotist desires.