Word: gadget
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...gadget freak at heart, but there's no need to look like one. On the outside, Dockers' Mobile Pant appears to be an ordinary pair of tailored slacks. But tucked inside its waist seams and hidden behind zippers on the legs are three extra mesh-lined pockets for stashing everything from your cell phone to your PDA. One piece of advice: make sure you unload your cache before passing through airport metal detectors, or you'll be outed as a geek faster than you can say Palm Pilot...
...writing this column while plugged into a gorgeously tactile white-and-chrome gadget the size of a cigarette pack that is giving me a better-than-CD-quality rendition of Hey Jude. For a music junkie like me, listening to tunes at work is not unusual. Listening on a portable device is. If this were a Discman or a regular MP3 player, I would be fretting right now about how much battery power I was wasting, and I would certainly have to hunt for another album before I reached the end of this page. But this tiny beauty, known...
...months ago, Sanyo introduced a washing machine that it says can clean clothes using only water, ultrasonic waves and electrolysis. No detergent necessary. The machine is environmentally friendly, and gadget-happy Japanese have snapped up more than 30,000 units. But now Sanyo's pitch is being refuted by the Japan Soap and Detergent Association, which says the machine doesn't clean well and can damage clothes. Sanyo says it has no immediate plans to market the product--which has an optional detergent cycle--in the U.S. But Brian Sansoni, a spokesman for the $8.5 billion soap industry, is taking...
Surely enough, cultural critics have trumpeted the detrimental impact of the cell phone on society. Are we not disingenuous hedons, appropriating a gadget with the pretext of boosting efficiency, when in fact we use that technology for useless chit-chat? Even the most avid cell phone apologists concede that this is a rhetorical question. Of course cell phones are mostly frivolous and only occasionally useful. Ultimately, users argue, the cell phone is a benign force, and on the rare occasion that it seems absolutely necessary (“Where are you, I’m outside Mather?...
LIGHT FANTASTIC The hot new gadget at this week's National Hardware Show in Chicago is a breakthrough in...night-light technology? Yep, the Elumina Dimmable, available this fall for $5.99, is the most sophisticated device of its kind ever made. Its features include 10 brightness settings, an extra-long life-span and a special sheath that extends to cover the night-light's plug when it is removed from its outlet--to reduce the risk of bedtime shocks...