Sorting Through Large-Screen Monitors Graphics professionals aiming to produce better-quality work are turning to sizable 19- to 25-inch monitors. But selecting a monitor isn't simply a matter of going out and purchasing "the best one" on the market. Knowing the right questions to ask can help you to narrow the field and focus on monitors that are well-suited to your specific requirements.

Movies That Move Us An intense demand for new different attractions as well as phenomenal breakthroughs in computer technology have sparked an explosion in the development of high end digital adventures for entertain-ment. This first part of a two-part special report takes a look at so-called "passive" attractions.

A Select Few Push the Edge of Design Although computer aided industrial design (CAID) systems have been widely adopted by the auto industry and the in house design groups of large manufacturers, they have yet to win acceptance among the majority of small industrial design consultancies. But for those consultancies that have made the plunge there's no question in their mnds that CAID can offer significant benefits even to the little guy.