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...boost your chances of picking up a signal, you can build a Pringles-can antenna, a very cool home-brew device that plugs into most wireless cards. The easiest instructions are online at oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 Basically, you'll need a soldering iron, a glue gun and about $6.45 in parts from Radio Shack, Home Depot and the snack aisle of your grocery store. No time to build one? Perhaps one of your neighbors will help. After all, the whole block may reap the benefit...
...connect a notebook PC, you'll need a wireless PC card, a slim metal plate that slides into the laptop's PCMCIA slot and has a small antenna sticking out from the end (also $50 and up). To connect a Mac desktop or notebook, get an Apple Airport card ($99). If you're buying a new notebook, most major PC manufacturers will sell you one with Wi-Fi capabilities built...
...muscles. Pressure sensors detect the wearer's movements and direct the suit accordingly. AUTO SECURITY Remote Control Car thieves beware. A student in Bangalore, India has devised a system that can remotely immobilize a car after it has been stolen. The N-S Aero-Stop uses a transmitter and antenna to send a signal to an onboard device that shuts down power to the engine and ignition - as long as the pilfered vehicle is within a 1-km radius. Inventor Vinay Verma believes the device could be developed to reach a 10-km range. SPACE EXPLORATION Galactic Gardening Astronauts could...
...Jawboning paid off when female lawmakers demanded that the legislature be scoured for cameras. Lee was hired for the job. Lugging a metal case full of spinning dials and blinking LCD read-outs, he waved a big antenna over every nook, cranny and toilet in the building. At a subsequent press conference Lee, alongside the speaker of Taiwan's legislature, pronounced the place safe for womankind. It was, he says, the crowning moment of his career...
...first thing to get used to with XM is all the new channels. While you still get regular broadcast stations via antenna, there are 100 XM channels; about a third are commercial free. These stations are transmitted from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, so in theory you could listen to the same station from Seattle to Miami. While the XM offerings include radio versions of network fare like CNBC, ESPN and MTV, there are dozens of original music stations created by XM's staff...