Word: beep
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Then at once the road reappeared. Beep…beep! My phone lit up. It has found a faint signal—just one bar, but enough to call home. As I parked to talk with my mum, I kept the engine running and left the headlights on. I told her about the people I met that day and the glaciers I would visit tomorrow. She asked me all the usual questions, to which I gave all my usual answers. But this time it was different—I carefully considered each question before replying. Through the encompassing darkness...
Embarrassment needled me in the head like a virtual noogie. Wireless computing, it dawned on me, was no longer emerging. It's here. The gap between what I cover as a journalist and how I live widens daily. Despite a long-held fascination with the shine and beep of all things high tech, I'm becoming more of a fumbling Luddite. And that's a bummer, because any digiratus will tell you that not only does technology change quickly but the pace at which it changes is accelerating. According to this logic, in 10 years we'll be buying newer...
...service provider, posted a quarterly net profit of -3 million - the first since it floated in April 2000 - thanks to a rapid increase in the number of its broadband subscribers. Candid Camera Phones South Korea 's government called on cell-phone manufacturers to fit picture phones with an audible beep that would sound each time an image was snapped, to prevent illicit shots being taken...
...center of the power game knew their lives had changed. At the Naval Research Laboratory, which was in charge of America's entry in the space race, Project Vanguard, the engineers bathed the roof in searchlights so they could adjust their radio dishes to pick up the defiant beep from Sputnik, the 184-lb. intruder that had not only humiliated the U.S. but ratcheted up the cold war. The Soviet rockets obviously were bigger and better than we knew...
...from a good seven minutes' walk away. (To be safe, Clifford has the ignition shut itself off after 12 minutes if there's no key in it.) For urban-jungle dwellers, the range is more like two blocks. The Matrix can be set to vibrate rather than beep when the alarm goes off--which should mean more sleep for the rest of your family. Not to mention your neighborhood. --By Chris Taylor