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...after a 10th century Viking king), which uses short-range radio waves to enable any two devices to transmit data up to 328 ft. Expected to take off next year, Bluetooth will allow users of any digital camera to send images to their cell phones. The phones can then beam the files to a website. This will eliminate the need for a pricey wireless modem card (currently about $400), making the cameras much more economical...
...current nascent state," declares art historian Paul Tucker, squinting wishfully against the sun. The University of Massachusetts professor is shadowed by an I-beam mass of welded steel that looms 55' tall above a campus soccer field. The construction, a piece by sculptor Mark diSuvero, is entitled "Huru," a word that means both hello and good-bye in an aboriginal Australian language. Appropriately situated to greet incomers from University Drive, "Huru" was the first piece of artwork in Arts on the Point, the public sculpture park at UMass Boston and a gargantuan contemporary art project that arguably borders a renaissance...
...whizziest new device, an ultrafast form of computer scanning called electron-beam computer tomography (EBCT), picks up the presence of tiny deposits of calcium in the heart. One study based on the scan showed that patients who build up 20% or more calcium each year have an 18-fold greater chance of suffering a heart attack than those with less calcium in their hearts...
...Skids. Faulkner learned to drink in Mississippi, and Southern Culture "learned to dance" (albeit somewhat woozily) in the same place, as one of the songs of their newly released album, Liquored Up and Laquered Down, proudly proclaims. The same region of the United States that gave birth to Jim Beam and Jack Daniels produced Rick Miller, North Carolina native and founder of the band, who warned the crowd at the Middle East of the dangers of getting "Drunk and Lonesome (Again),": "Whenever I get liquored up, I always seem to end up in a cheap motel...
...next frontier? Wireless. Palm Pilot users can already use PayPal and their units' infrared technology to "beam" each other cash. And with Web-enabled cell phones, PayPal can be used to make payments remotely. That means in the future, when you go shopping or eat out, instead of reaching for your wallet, you may reach for your cell phone--and an online-payment service. Ultimately, it may be your cash--as much as your frantic hunts for first-class postage--that PayPal and Billpoint render obsolete...