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...LIVING SPACE: British-French expat Jennifer Dyson was a longtime fixture on Tha Pae Road until this past February, when she moved her design-and-lifestyle emporium, tel: (66) 5321 5166, to Nimmanhaemin. "I suppose I was ready for a new environment," she says. Fans of her old store can still find plenty of its distinctive, boldly colored Thai and Vietnamese lacquerware. Other goodies include two-toned lambskin messenger bags and teak trays inlaid with mother-of-pearl...
...Past winners of the prize include Freeman J. Dyson, physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Charles H. Townes, UCLA professor and Nobel laureate for physics. The 2006 winner was cosmologist John D. Barrow, who has written in depth on the connection between life and the universe and what scientists may not understand about matter, space and time. Judges of the prize, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, include leaders from the fields of science and religion...
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...cleaning fanatics, a vacuum can mean only one thing: Dyson. Since the company's inception in 1993, James Dyson has strived to create innovative machines superior to anything else on the market. Now comes his latest invention, the Root 6, above, a handheld vacuum that won't lose suction, never clogs and has a lithiumion battery. And with its space-age good looks, it's nice enough to leave lying around the house...
...didn't take long for Dyson to reinvent the public-rest-room hand dryer. Most dryers blow hot air on your hands to evaporate the water pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this...