Word: bug
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...Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA L'oeuf bug! A cybervirus as lethal as its Philippine cousin travels under the leggy tennis star's name TINTIN Zut alors! A bawdy spoof sends the francophone toon traveler on a salacious trip to Thailand AKEBONO First foreign sumo champ crashes motorcycle, then apologizes. To the bike? Verbatim...
...annual Toy Fair in New York City last week, the bots were everywhere. Foot-long bug bots crept across exhibit floors. Two-legged baby bots took their first toddler steps. A testy and surprisingly lifelike dinobot snapped its mechanical jaws...
What distinguishes the latest crop of robots from their strictly mechanical forebears is their ability to react to their environment (rather than dumbly obey the whims of their five-year-old masters). For example, Hasbro's B.I.O. Bugs send out radio and infrared signals to sense who or what is in the room. If it's a predator, the bug might decide to fight, gaining strength with each match it wins. Touch its antenna, and it will scurry away to flock with other bugs. "You can train them, but you can't tame them," says creator Richard Yanofsky, who claims...
Naturally, the 750NAV was far from bug free. Sometimes it couldn't communicate with its global-positioning satellites; other times it did so imperfectly, locating us with pinpoint accuracy miles out at sea. I liken the experience to traveling with a really knowledgeable but hopelessly drunk guide...
...park's attractions, It's Tough to Be a Bug and a 3-D Muppets show, were imported from Florida. Even Soarin' over California, a simulated hang-gliding ride over the ocean, mountains and deserts of California, which promises to be one of the park's biggest hits, can easily and cheaply be reinvented in a few years when the experience starts feeling...