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You’ll have as much fun as Inspector Gadget when the text you highlight gets scanned into a digital format. The IRISPen Express Text Recognition pen scanner can read almost any font, as well as 55 languages. Since it reads 1000 characters a second, it won’t slow you down. If you want to scan full pages, Planon System Solutions’ DocuPen is the smallest option out there. With an advanced charging feature that recharges the pen every time you upload data to your computer, you’ll always have enough juice to finish...
...Incredibles has those characters, that heart. And after that poignant stretch of family dysfunction, the movie brings on its supervillain--Mr. I's onetime groupie Incrediboy, now the cunning, gadget-obsessed Syndrome (Jason Lee)--and explodes into the year's wittiest, zippiest adventure, with each knockout action sequence eclipsing the last and with echoes of '60s James Bond films and Fantastic Four comic books. But it's still unusual: in its length (nearly two hours), in its rating (PG for "action violence," a first for G-loving Pixar) and in its cast of human characters...
Internet service providers like Verizon and gadget stores like Radio Shack say the act's wording is too draconian and makes them liable if customers use their wares to break copyright law. "It will be hard for us to introduce any digital product or service that delivers entertainment content," argues Sarah Deutsch, general counsel for Verizon...
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...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...