In an electronics showroom, beneath a huge poster of President Bashar al-Assad and his father, I get chatting to a young man of about 20; he seems prosperous, starting off the conversation by talking about his expensive car.
Mr. Omar, who runs the De Afghanan Fine Kabob and Tandoori House, and his brother, Wais, a manager at a Silicon Valley electronics company, plan to distribute posters that show an X across the face of Osama bin Laden, who is the prime suspect in Tuesday's attacks.
The increasingly high-tech American military is a poster child for applying electronics, materials and networking know-how to other real-world applications, like industrial infrastructure and smart grids.
"Instead of sending a man up a ladder with a bucket of paste to stick up a poster, you can change an advertising message electronically". The company, like other electronics firms, is also investing heavily in steganography.
(Although Apple is the poster child for Foxconn, just about all of our electronics are made in the same Chinese factories, as the Times article noted.
Carell plays Andy Stitzer, a sweet-natured electronics store employee who lives alone amid his Star Wars posters, his computer games and his vintage action figures, preserved in their plastic boxes because they're worth more that way.
Freeman and Lowe carefully populate their installation with those objects most prone to turning into useless crap: betting forms, posters, videotapes, pornography, cosmetic surgery technologies, beauty products, industrial electronics, public safety notices.
Apparently the poster uses "technology enabled by integration of conductive ink, capacitive touch and conventional electronics to provide a musical experience in a new format, combining science, design and music".
Apple is the poster child for the conditions at the Foxconn factory, and no wonder: it's the most profitable electronics company.
