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...muddied (unscrupulous dealers sometimes soak new carpets in tea or other chemical treatments to make them look older). And make sure the colors haven't run into the carpet fringe - a sure sign of chemical dyes and modern manufacture. Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny - lightly greased from the wool...
Bottom-pressure recorder Can detect minute changes in water pressure caused by a passing tsunami as small as 0.4 in. (1 cm...
...alternatives based on nanotechnology and holograms have so far failed to materialize. So Cornice Inc. of Colorado is trying to perfect a technology based on the standard hard drive, which has been around the computer business for nearly a half-century. Cornice has shrunk the drive, normally about 10.2 cm by 14.6 cm by 2.5 cm in a standard computer, to a cell phone?friendly 3.6 cm by 4.3 cm by 0.5cm. It removed a lot of the supporting electronic chips, transferring tasks like disc-speed control and memory buffering to other chips on the cell phone. Co-founder...
...Price of a 4-cm platinum-and-diamond Hello Kitty figurine at an Osaka department store
...distant future, flat TVs will be hooked up to PCs, which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought a 42-in. (107-cm) plasma TV on the Internet from Gateway for $3,000 and has got an instant popularity boost. "Everybody who walks into the house comments on the TV," he boasts. "They look at it like the piece of wall-mounted art that it's supposed to be. It really does look cool." Wheeler eventually...