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...down jacket, the long underwear and the extra-thick scarf. Designed for extreme cold, the North Face MET5 jacket can keep you warm all by itself, thanks to a network of microscopic, waterproof heating elements woven into the fabric. Working a control unit stashed near the chest, you can dial the heat up to 114[degrees]F. Small lithium-ion batteries keep the juice flowing for up to five hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Best Of The Rest | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

BEOCOM 6000, $475 This cordless phone from Bang & Olufsen www.bang-olufsen.com is functional as well as stylish. One base unit can support as many as six handsets ($275 each for extras); if you add a number to the speed-dial/caller-ID database of one handset, you add it to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Roiff and the Kennedy brothers initially submitted a script, entitled “Dial R for Room Service,” but it was rejected for the 152nd production two years...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Snow Place' Like the Pudding for 154th Show | 9/25/2001 | See Source »

...link peripheral devices, such as PDAs and printers, to other computerized devices. Chips up to 30 ft. apart built on the new standard can exchange audio and data at a rate of 500 to 1,000 kilobytes every second--more than 10 times as fast as your dial-up modem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Net: Wi-Fi Gets Going | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...transmits data 10 times that distance and at much more than 100 times the rate of a dial-up modem, making it an ideal technology for linking computers to one another and to the Net in a wireless local-area network, or WLAN. It also has the advantage of being unequivocally here and relatively easy to use. All you need is a specialized PC card (for as low as $90) that slips into a slot in your computer, and an access point or base station (available for less than $300) capable of linking several computers. The downside? Higher power means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Net: Wi-Fi Gets Going | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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