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EACH FALL WE SORT THROUGH THE YEAR'S new gadgets to pick the coolest stuff from the most innovative minds in the world. This year we chose the iPhone as Invention of the Year, not merely for its revolutionary design and functionality but for how it will shape the future of communications. You'll also read about a motorcycle that flies, an umbrella that actually keeps your backside dry, an automatic-transmission bicycle and stilettos with collapsible heels...
...explains what Warren Buffett has to do with the future of undergarments. Finally, deputy art director D.W. Pine and photo editor Jay Colton gave the section its sleek look--as Apple has proved, when you're dealing with complex technology, you can't overestimate the importance of good, clean design...
...suited to developing economies like Mexico, Brazil and China, where it is doing well, than to mature markets like the U.S. and Japan, where it isn't. In the U.S., same-store sales increases are bumping along at 1% to 2% a month, while rival Target, the fashion-forward, design-centric glamour girl of discounting, runs up 2% to 4% monthly increases. Wall Street complains that Wal-Mart spends too much money opening the same old big boxes, so much so that Wal-Mart announced it will cut store growth and even trim store size. "You do more and more...
...first task was to design a machine that would allow kids to connect wirelessly to the Internet without an outside source of electricity, and that would be rugged enough to function in often harsh conditions. Prototypes of the laptop (dubbed XO) - with built-in video and audio, a hand-crank and low wattage requirements - are getting high marks from technology reviewers. Some 8,000 units are up and running in pilot villages from Cambodia to Uruguay. But perhaps an even more difficult task was to generate enough mass interest in the project to allow the computer to be produced...
...project are not quite there yet, the 63-year-old professor is as busy as ever piling up the snow. Such was the case Monday in Rome, where he was utilizing the most important new tool in his stump speech: the lime green laptop with a toy-like design that Negroponte carries with him everywhere. Throughout the day, he spoke to three packed auditoriums, and met with officials at the U.N.'s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Telecom Italia. In between, he taped an interview at Vatican Radio, lunched with...