Initially, Jobs steered the company's efforts toward marketing the Pixar Image Computer and developing high-tech graphics software.
For Nokia, Nuovo designed phones in splashy colors and phones with removable faceplates and phones the size of makeup compacts and phones with high-tech graphics.
Without high-tech graphics or extravagant claims, the PBS series "Secrets of the Dead" has thrived for seven seasons (a dowager in TV years) by blending history, science, archaeology and other disciplines with old-fashioned detective work.
The first is the shift from traditional pachinko, which resembles a vertical form of pinball, to more modern pachislot machines, which can incorporate high-tech graphics, slot-machine features and larger potential payouts based on "accumulating jackpots".
NBC, which has woven rock music, high-tech graphics and MTV-style vignettes into its Olympic coverage to lure younger viewers, would like athletes to act their age, but the athletes want to persuade corporate sponsors that they are mature enough to handle a spokesman's duties.
CNN took high-tech graphics even further: at one point, a hologram of the CNN correspondent in Chicago, Jessica Yellin, was made to look as if she were on Wolf Blitzer's set, but she actually looked like an alien caught in a "Star Trek" transporter.
It was only once we were inside the cinema, immersed in surround sound and high tech digital graphics (so sorely lacking from the original films) that it occurred to me that perhaps the film might not be suitable for my young child.
For two weekends, Nov. 12-14 and 18-20, the Brooklyn Academy of Music will screen a variety of films that trade high-tech computer graphics and special effects for old-fashioned foam and fabric.
Carpenter wanted high-tech computer graphics which were very expensive at the time, even for such a simple animation.
For Danielle Scutt, high tech was the thing as she showed her graphic clothes as a moody film in the digital center at the British Fashion Council venue.
