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CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK The Jumbo Music Block ($60, for ages 1 and up) is designed to be Baby's first gadget. Made by Neurosmith, which specializes in tech for tykes, it's a plush cube 14 in. on a side--that's about waist high on a toddler--and covered with bright, colorful touch-sensitive shapes, each of which hides a secret pocket. It's designed to teach music and motor skills: touch a shape, and it plays a maddeningly perky tune...
STUNTS Canada's London Free Press showed an egg frying on the trunk of a car; the New York Times had a photo series of an ice cube melting in the sun; a N.Y.C. TV station brought a camel into its studio...
...Glass is like ice," Hajek says. "If you put an ice cube in the microwave, it won't melt. The microwaves go right through it. But if there's as much as a drop of water on the ice, the drop will heat up and melt the whole cube." After two years of painstaking research and experimentation, Hajek identified a metallic compound - he won't say what it is - that functions like the drop of water on the ice cube. Hajek's compound kick-starts the melting process and can then be removed without a trace. "You need to know...
SQUARE PEG Apple's distinctive Power Mac G4 Cube, which made such a splash in industrial-design circles when it debuted last summer, has gone the way of the dodo and the Apple Newton. The Cube--a full-fledged Mac packed into a gleaming clear plastic case 8 in. on a side--looked at first like another computing coup for chairman Steve Jobs, but it never quite caught on. It was too expensive (about $1,300) and too low powered, and users complained that its touch-sensitive power switch caused unintentional shutdowns. At least we still have the flower-power...
...Black and White creator Peter Molyneaux filled the floor way faster than Regis last year. This year, attendees are dreaming of Will Wright premiering the Sims Online, Sid Meier unveiling Civilization III or Mr. Miyamoto and his mysterious Nintendo Game Cube games. They can't wait to see what kind of a show-stopper Microsoft's X-box is, or whether last year's best of show, the still-unfinished Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PlayStation2, can live up to its Daikatana-sized expectations...