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...have $50,000 to spare for a real Hummer, then you might consider a more modest alternative: a line of gadgets from Conair that are modeled after the brawny cars. The devices include a digital boom box, a CD player and two-way radios ($99, shown above). Out in April, the radios feature a digital compass and voice activation...
...right on the money. The shareholders in their company, Patent Enforcement & Royalties, which trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange, are entitled to 50% of a $3 million January verdict against Land O'Lakes for infringing a New Yorker's patent of a low-fat coffee creamer. Three weeks ago, Conair, the hair-appliance maker, was ordered to pay a German inventor $28.5 million in back royalties for a device that prevents electric shock when driers get wet. "When the little guy needs help, that's where we come in," says McDonald, above...
...bridge the generation gap, designers are branching out from the traditional Asian look to include, among other things, Day-Glo marbles and colored lights. Some models are decorated with picture frames, others with spinning balls. There's even a dizzying version of a water-based Lava lamp. Conair, known more for its hair dryers than its home-spa products, is developing a fountain with water flowing over a 3-D photograph of--you guessed it--flowing water. "It's reinvent or die," says Abraham. "That's the only way to keep a trend like this going...
...going to escape because Gerard is busy and can't watch him just now that characterizes the mood of the film. Jones is aboard the prison transport plane because of this stupid public relations reason that his superior all but made up. (Didn't these people see ConAir? Why is it that people have to fly criminals anywhere? It's not like they have anywhere to go in a hurry.) When asked whether or not he's going to escape, Snipes says no, no he's not going to leave the scene of the second most ridiculously contrived escape scenario...
...country. "It changed my life," says Vince Witherup, who, given his visceral enthusiasm for the ways in which industry R. and D. has benefited society (like supplying airlines with less crack-prone cups), seems to be only half-joking. Witherup, vice president for international sales and marketing at the Conair Group, a manufacturer of auxiliary equipment for the plastics industry, was a recent college graduate in 1967. Back then he already suspected that plastics was an "exciting" field--an impression that seeing The Graduate somehow confirmed for him despite the fact that this is precisely what the film wasn...