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...high-tech, high-fashion clothes that come with electronic devices sewn right into them. The new threads, which Levi's has dubbed ICD+, were created by Massimo Osti, and will debut next month in Europe. So far the line consists of four jackets, one of which features a built-in MP3 player, cell phone and microphone. Levi's says it has no plans to launch ICD+ in the U.S. And that's O.K. with us. Really...
...dime-size wafer, not expected before 2025, would store micronutrients in hundreds of mini-reservoirs. After the wafer is swallowed, built-in sensors would respond to various chemicals, acids and proteins in the G.I.'s gut signaling hunger. A resulting small electrical charge would dissolve a thin gold cap on a reservoir, releasing the needed nutrients...
...copies. Anyone who has seen the verso, as it were, of a dead ray, or skate, the commonest of sights in a Paris fishmarket, knows that the underside of this fish bears a grisly resemblance to the human face. But that sort of double meaning, with its built-in pathos, would probably have struck the artist as a bit cheap. Diderot, despite his great admiration of Chardin, thought the ray disgusting--but there's nothing to suggest that Chardin was repelled by those glistening pearl-pink guts or the lunar luster on the ray's skin, let alone that (like...
...enough to pay the difference. (Products in the Digi-Walker line range from $25 for a bare-bones model that just counts steps to $35 for the deluxe edition, which, at the touch of a button, also converts steps to miles and calories burned and comes with a built-in stopwatch for those who feel obliged to set a more vigorous pace.) Of course, you could do this mentally: 10,000 steps = 5 miles = 500 calories, roughly...
Also from Sony was a radical new addition to its Mavica line of digital cameras. The Mavica MVC-CD1000 ($1,300, available in August) comes with a built-in CD-ROM burner, so when you snap a picture, you don't have to download it to your PC. Instead, the camera writes the image straight to a disc. No fuss, no muss...