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...wireless relies on the Internet. For close communications, many handhelds, including budget models for kids, have infrared sensors that let one unit interface with another nearby. Executives can use it to beam their business cards from their device to someone else's. And it's the technology behind that romantic Palm commercial in which two beautiful strangers, spying each other from different trains as one pulls away, manage to communicate: she sends him her phone number before they're whisked apart. (Yes, you can really do it if both Palms are on and you're close enough together...
Retailers, in particular, are salivating at the possibilities. When you walk through a shopping mall in the future, stores will be able to beam messages tailored just for you: the lawn mower you were asking about last weekend has come in; the casual pants you always buy are 40% off today...
...Sommers' failure to contact Gilligan personally even once spurred The Boston Globe's Alex Beam to dub the Atlantic Monthly's article an "attempted drive-by character assassination" in his column last Friday...
...fleet of 747s with lasers. These "Warbirds" could explode enemy missiles shortly after launch, well before they could unleash their batches of warheads on American soldiers or local civilians. Computers on the plane will bend the laser's "rubber mirror" hundreds of times a second to keep the beam fixed on the missile's skin for the three to five seconds needed to destroy...
...Visor, at $149, is kind of like the VW Bug of yesteryear. It's cheap, has a certain elegance and runs on the same gas as the Palm line. But if you want a luxury ride with tons of options, go with a Palm. Either way, you can still beam...