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PHOTOS AND GRAPHICS At The Epicenter Paths to Pleasure Quotes of the Week This Week's Gadget Cartoons of the Week More graphics >> More photos...
...little-known company until five years ago, when it launched its BlackBerry, a handheld gadget for writing and receiving secure e-mail. Before that Lazaridis tinkered with industrial displays and developed a fast way to read time codes on film. "We've always been innovative," he says. "Whatever we get involved in, we sink our teeth into." Today the very term BlackBerry is synonymous with wireless e-mail. More than 1 million people use the gizmo, led by a long list of the rich and famous that RIM says includes George W. Bush, Sarah Jessica Parker, George Clooney...
...matter how ingenious the gear or the gadget, technology has its limits. What makes an Olympian a winner depends mainly upon muscle strength, stamina, skill and desire. Still, with history being made by the millisecond in Athens, athletes can use all the technological help?and all the extra red blood cells?they...
PHOTOS AND GRAPHICS At The Epicenter Paths to Pleasure Quotes of the Week This Week's Gadget Cartoons of the Week More graphics >> More photos...
...Philips Keyring Camcorder isn't the first key-chain-size device to pack 128 MB of memory. And it isn't the first miniature MP3 player. But it is the first USB gadget sold in the U.S. with a video camera, still camera and MP3 player all inside a single unit about the size of a breakfast sausage. There's even a tiny LCD screen on the back for viewing images...