Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema.
We last left off on the cyberpunk streets of LA in Strange Days. This week, in honor of the loss of the man behind so many 1980′s icons, Movie Gadget Friday is paying homage to filmmaker John Hughes with a look into the 1985 cult-classic Weird Science. Tapping into the geek-fiction fantasies of most tinkering teenagers, real-life gadget specs are stretched to surreal capabilities to create the ultimate female bombshell. It’s without surprise that the character’s name, Lisa, was inspired by the Apple Lisa, Apple’s first GUI computer.
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