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Walk Man Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba Availability: Near future, $14,000-$19,000 To Learn More: sanlab.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp Enter ... Mecha-Grandma! Japanese researchers have developed a robotic exoskeleton to help the elderly and disabled walk and even lift heavy objects like the jug of water above. It's called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL. (The inventor has obviously never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Its brain is a computer (housed in a backpack) that learns to mimic the wearer's gait and posture; bioelectric sensors pick up signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles...
...dictionaries cited above unlock some of the secrets of the new lingo, as well as providing glossaries of longer established slang. "The chief components of slang are sex, money and intoxicants," says Jonathon Green, who compiled the latest Cassell's. It used to take years for such words to enter the lexicon, he adds, but "through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs...
...hills north of San Diego. But while the spa's spare, utilitarian interiors may have been the height of fashion in the 1980s, they did not age well-especially in the face of the competition that emerged with the spa-building boom of the last few years. Enter investors John and Terri Havens. The New Orleans couple bought Cal-a-Vie in 2001 and embarked on a mission, Terri Havens says, "to bring top-of-the-line luxury...
...late 1980s, Daver was one of the first Indian women to enter technology marketing. Neither black nor white, she grew accustomed to being stared at and judged differently, despite wearing Western clothes and speaking flawless English. Today, the mother of two is still in a rarefied position as just one of a handful of Indian female executives nationwide...
...this weekend, the Harvard football team will finally get a glimpse of the veteran foundation of its defensive secondary.Senior cornerback Gary Sonkur will likely see his first substantive action of the season on Saturday against Penn. He dressed last week against Columbia for the first time this year. Entering the fall season, observers predicted that Sonkur and fellow senior corner Keith Howell would create the best cornerback tandem in the league. But Sonkur battled hamstring problems throughout fall camp and was unable to shake the injury until last week.“He’s a very experienced...