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...center of the company's new mobile focus is the KeyCase, a folding cloth keyboard and case that works with Palm Pilots (but not, for now, with other PDAs). The device looks modest, but some road warriors may end up using it in place of a laptop...
About the size of a regular laptop keyboard, though with slightly smaller keys, the KeyCase is made of ElekTex, a lightweight fabric invented by Britain-based ELEKSEN, which combines conductive and traditional fibers in a way that allows it to be cleaned with a damp cloth and keep working even if you spill coffee on it. When a finger hits a key, the sensing system sends electronic impulses that can be understood by conventional electronic equipment...
...whole thing fits in a jacket pocket. The pitch: Why buy a regular protective case when--for less than $100--you can get one that will double as a keyboard? Says Bernard Gander, a Logitech vice president: "After this goes into production, we can print different designs on the cloth, perhaps even Gucci or Louis Vuitton versions...
...refugees or reassuring local Georgian officials who denied that there were any terrorists in the 17-km-long valley. This time, perhaps because the visit was unannounced, the mood was brusque and unwelcoming. Well-built young Chechen men with full beards and a young woman in a flowing face cloth slipped past but avoided conversation. They would be unusual in Chechnya, with its more relaxed approach to Islamic dress codes. Other residents were particularly incensed at a request to see the new mosque - built, according to officials in Tbilisi, by Wahhabi money from Saudi Arabia. "Go take pictures of churches...
...fractal, one of those naturally recurring patterns - like the day-to-day and year-to-year fluctuations of the stock market - that repeat themselves at all scales. The Halloween vandal who trashes a house and the Balkan despot who trashes a nation are both cut from the same black cloth. Their sense of impunity, of adolescent entitlement, of imagined roguish grandeur are identical - even if the size of their respective stages are different. For that reason, they should be treated the same. Slap them down, lock them up, expose them for the small and crude things they almost always...