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...California high desert. Hernandez was hit while he and his Marine platoon were trying to secure a landing zone for a helicopter that was bringing in troops to help take the "city." The enemy, masked by surrounding buildings and sandbag bunkers, fired on the group. The laser-activated beeper on Hernandez's belt went off, signaling that he had been killed in action; 22 of his 27 fellow platoon members suffered the same fate. All in all, it was a rough day for the Marines. "It was very difficult to find a place to hide," says Hernandez. "If this...
BERRYPHONE We remember the BlackBerry when it was a popular beeper-size, mini-keyboard-equipped pager that allowed users to send and receive e-mail wirelessly almost anywhere. Two years ago, it grew a bigger screen for Web browsing and appointment booking. Finally, last week, the BlackBerry PDA 5810 ($499) sprouted a cell phone. Now it's all grown...
...Ching-wan) is drawn into a heist scheme. Is it in China? Or in Taiwan? The two parts of this what-if scenario show the results, with some odd twists, as when the hoods laboriously seal their comrade's corpse behind a wall, then hear the sound of a beeper?it's the dead man's, which they need to get further instructions, and they buried it with him behind the wall. Wai visualized this complex farrago with a dizzying display of hand-held, fish-eye, overhead, upside-down shots. The film seemed to herald a brazen, bracing solo directing...
...citizen had a reasonable expectation of privacy when government intrusion occurred. That case involved a bookmaker's use of a public telephone, which was bugged - unconstitutional, said the Court. In another case the civil liberties crowd liked, the Court ruled in 1984 that federal agents couldn't put a beeper in a canister of ether, which they followed to a home where it was used to extract cocaine from clothing...
Still, from time to time, I go through periods of self-doubt, which lead to short bursts of self-improvement. During my latest attack, I came across a clever bit of exercise-related digital technology that might hold me over until someone invents an automatic exerciser. It's a beeper-size, clip-on device known as the Digi-Walker. Its function is Zen simple: step counting. Your goal is to walk 10,000 paces a day, as measured by the Digi-Walker. While there are plenty of cheaper pedometers that measure motion and extrapolate steps, I liked the elegant design...