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Machina may refer to: * Machina (band), a rock and metal band * Machina (company), a clothing brand company specializing in wearable technology * ''Machina'' (magazine), Polish music magazine * Machina, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Yoba State * ''Machina/The Machines of God'', a 2000 album by The Smashing Pumpkins * ''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'', another 2000 album by The Smashing Pumpkins * Mark J. Machina (born 1954), American economist * Queen Machina, one of the main villains from ''Power Rangers Zeo'' * An earlier title for '' Elephants Dream'', a Blender 3D animated short film * A machine-based weapon in ''Baten Kaitos Origins ''Baten Kaitos Origins'', released in Japan as ''Baten Kaitos II'', is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Monolith Soft and Tri-Crescendo for the GameCube. It is a prequel to ''Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'' (2003). Simi ...'' * A powered machine in ''Final Fantasy X'' * The Machina, a non-play ...
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Machina (band)
Future Leaders of the World is a rock band formed in 2003 by singer and guitarist Phil Taylor, drummer Carl Messina, and bassist Toby Cole, in Buffalo, New York. Their debut album, '' LVL IV'', was released in 2004. With a new lineup, the band was renamed Machina in 2005. They released another album under the Future Leaders of the World name, ''Reveal'', in 2015. History Future Leaders of the World was formed in 2003 by guitarist and singer Phil Taylor in Buffalo, New York Buffalo is a Administrative divisions of New York (state), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and county seat of Erie County, New York, Erie County. It lies in Western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of ..., with drummer Carl Messina and bassist Toby Cole. After driving to Los Angeles to record the demo sessions, Cole left due to mental exhaustion. In late 2003, bassist Bill Hershey and lead guitarist Jake Stutevoss joined the lineup, and the band signed a deal ...
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Machina (company)
Machina is a clothing brand company specializing in wearable technology based in Mexico City and San Francisco, accelerated by Highway1 and Wayra. The company attempted to make a MIDI controlling jacket. A 2012 review in TechCrunch called the jacket "a cool concept and an interesting and kinetic way to trigger and control beats and sounds." The company was founded in 2011 by Linda Franco, Antonio Perdigón, and Daniel Fernández de Córdova. A Kickstarter project in 2013 produced a prototype, with a delay of almost a year behind the projected delivery date. Since then, there have been no substantial updates and the announced open-source hardware has not materialized. As of 2017, the company has been developing developing OBE, a jacket for virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment ( ...
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Machina (magazine)
''Machina'' was a monthly music magazine published in Poland between from 1995 to 2002, and from 2006 to 2012. The title was subsequently reduced to a website but ultimately ceased activity in 2015. History The magazine began activity in 1995 and its founder was Marek Kościkiewicz, one of the members of a popular Polish pop rock group De Mono. The first editor-in-chief was Andrzej Sienkiewicz, later replaced by Bogna Świątkowska and Marcin Prokop. Its contributors included Grzegorz Brzozowicz, Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz, Rafał Bryndal, Daniel Wyszogrodzki, and musician Kazik Staszewski, among others. ''Machina'' was regarded Polish equivalent of the ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, covering popular culture, including music, film and literature. Between 1997 and 2000, every issue included a promotional CD. The magazine went out of circulation in 2002, and in 2005, the title was bought by the publisher PMPG Polskie Media with the intention to relaunch ''Machina''. The reboot issue w ...
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Machina, Nigeria
Machina (also known as Matsena) is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Machina at . It shares a border in the north with The Republic of Niger. It has an area of 1,213 km and a population of 61,606 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 630. Climate Temperatures in Machina range from 59°F to 105°F, rarely dropping below 54°F or rising above 109°F, and there are hot, miserable, mainly gloomy rainy seasons and blistering, windy dry seasons. With an average daily high temperature of 101°F, the hot season lasts for 2.5 months, from March 26 to June 12. May, with an average high of 104°F and low of 82°F, is the hottest month of the year in Machina. With an average daily high temperature below 89°F, the cool season lasts for 1.8 months, from December 9 to February 2. In Machina, January is the coldest month of the year, with an average low of 60°F and high of 86°F. See also * List of Local Government Ar ...
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Machina/The Machines Of God
''Machina/The Machines of God'' is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on February 29, 2000, by Virgin Records. A concept album,Interview with Billy Corgan, May 24, 2000, KROQ-FM it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official LP record, LP release prior to their initial breakup in 2000. A sequel album—''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music''—was later released independently via the Internet, and in highly limited quantities for the physical version. Following the electronic rock, electronic and industrial rock elements established by its predecessor, ''Adore (The Smashing Pumpkins album), Adore'', ''Machina'' again proved controversial to the band's fan base and failed to reconnect them with chart-topping success. However, after the relatively brief ''Adore'' tour, the new lineup with Chamberlin and the former Hole (band), Hole bass guitarist Melissa Auf der ...
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Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music
''Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music'' is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000. Plans for a standard physical release, bundled with the first part '' Machina/The Machines of God'', were revealed to happen sometime in 2013, but was postponed due to legal setbacks. In an Instagram Q&A in 2018, the band's frontman, Billy Corgan, revealed that all legal issues had been resolved. The two albums have been remastered and are scheduled for release as a deluxe box set on August 22, 2025. The album itself, a double LP, was packaged with three EPs full of B-sides and alternate versions. The album's artwork was created by Carlos Segura. Both ''Machina'' albums are loose concept albums telling the story of "a rock star gone mad". ''Machina II'' was the last Smashing Pumpkins studio album until the band reformed in 2006, their final studio album to feature guitarist James ...
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Mark J
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency iss ...
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Queen Machina
''Power Rangers Zeo'' is a television series and the fourth season of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, based on the 19th Super Sentai series ''Chouriki Sentai Ohranger''. It is the continuation of ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' and aired in 1996. ''Power Rangers Zeo'' is the first season of ''Power Rangers'' to follow the ''Super Sentai'' practice of annual Ranger suit changes. Plot After witnessing the destruction of the Command Center, the powerless Rangers discover the Zeo Crystal intact in the rubble—apparently dropped by Goldar and Rito Revolto. The Crystal guides them to a portal which takes them deep underground to the Power Chamber where they find Zordon and Alpha 5 (Power Rangers), Alpha 5 waiting for them. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers become the Zeo Rangers, a new team of Rangers powered by the Zeo Crystal. The four remaining Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Tommy Oliver, Adam Park, Rocky DeSantos and Katherine Hillard become Zeo Ranger V — Red, Zeo Range ...
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Elephants Dream
''Elephants Dream'' (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled ''Machina'') is a 2006 Dutch animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The film is English-language and includes subtitles in over 30 languages. Plot An old man, Proog, guides the young Emo through a giant surreal machine, in which the rooms have no clear transition to each other. After Proog saves Emo from flying plugs in a room consisting of a gigantic telephone switchboard, they run through a dark room filled with electrical cables and flee from a flock of bird-like robots. In the next room, Emo is tempted to answer a ringing phone, but Proog stops him and reveals a trap. The room is also occupied by a robot resembling a self-operating typewriter, which Emo appears to laugh at. The next room is a large abyss from which metal supports appear from below; Proog nimbly dances across the abyss ...
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Baten Kaitos Origins
''Baten Kaitos Origins'', released in Japan as ''Baten Kaitos II'', is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Monolith Soft and Tri-Crescendo for the GameCube. It is a prequel to ''Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'' (2003). Similar to the first entry, the player assume the role of a "guardian angel, guardian spirit" – an unseen avatar (computing), player avatar – who guides protagonist Sagi and his party of companions in an adventure across an aerial floating island-based kingdom in the clouds. The game retains the original's focus around the concept of "Magnus" – magical cards that capture the "essence" of items found in the in-game world, where the concept is still used as a plot device, for Inventory management (video games), in-game item management, and as a basis for the card-themed battle system, albeit with minor tweaks. Unlike the first game, which was published by then-Monolith Soft owner Namco, ''Origins'' was published by Nintendo, and was not re ...
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Spira (Final Fantasy X)
Spira is the fictional world of the Square role-playing video games ''Final Fantasy X'' and '' X-2''. Spira is the first ''Final Fantasy'' world to feature consistent, all-encompassing spiritual and mythological influences within the planet's civilizations and their inhabitants' daily lives. The world of Spira itself is different from the mainly European-style worlds found in previous ''Final Fantasy'' games, being much more closely modeled on a setting influenced by the South Pacific, Thailand and Japan, most notably with respect to its vegetation, topography and architecture. The creation of Spira includes distinct ethnic minorities including a portrayal of the fictional Al Bhed language that is prevalent throughout the game's dialogue. The backstory and concept behind the dark religious themes of ''Final Fantasy X'' were a central theme to the story and their ultimate resolution was well received. The popularity of the ''Eternal Calm'' video served as the impetus of Square E ...
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Ingress (video Game)
''Ingress'' (or ''Ingress Prime'') is an augmented reality (AR) mobile game developed and published by Niantic for Android and iOS devices. The game was first released on December 14, 2013, for Android devices and then for iOS devices on July 14, 2014. The game is free-to-play, uses a freemium business model, and supports in-app purchases for additional in-game items. The mobile app has been downloaded more than 20 million times worldwide as of November 2018. ''Ingress'' uses the mobile device GPS to locate and interact with "portals" that are in proximity to the player's real-world location. The portals are physical points of interest where "human creativity and ingenuity is expressed," often manifesting as public art such as statues and monuments, unique architecture, outdoor murals, historic buildings, local community hubs and other displays of human achievement. The game uses the portals as elements of a science fiction backstory along with a continuous open narrative pr ...
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