Word: gadgeteers
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...stand to be apart. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced this week that Apple TV will soon play YouTube videos. Google recently unveiled a desktop search program especially for Mac users. And Google tools increasingly appear to be a key part of the secret sauce behind Apple's signature new gadget, the iPhone, set for release in June...
...wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...
...Kajeet is trying to blend cool technology with practical parenting to create a must-have gadget. At a suburban Baltimore research facility recently, a group of pre-adolescent beta testers prepared to share their feelings about the service. The good news for Kajeet: all four guinea pigs, Christian, Derrick, Trent and Nick gave the phone service high marks. "I've been wanting for something like this for a year. It makes me feel independent and my friends can find me anytime," said Derrick, 12, adding after a pause, "and if I'm in trouble I can call my parents." Kajeet...
...most other colleges, a student with cash to burn is likely to purchase a new Playstation 3. We splurge on incessantly blinking, cinderblock-sized phones. The former provides escapist fun; the latter ostensibly enhances productivity. The fact that such a gadget is fast becoming the trendiest luxury item in the Yard is a good indicator of how overly serious—and seriously un-hip—Harvard students are. Is it any wonder the administration deemed a fun czar necessary...
...must be a Copernican revolution. Viganella native Paolo Ragozza responds with a chuckle. "For us," he says, "it hasn't changed anything." Still, the nearby lodge owner is happy if the mirror brings new guests. "You'll see," he says, before giving driving directions, "it's a nice gadget." The town square is tiny, with no stores or restaurants, and is encircled by abandoned 15th century stone and wood cottages that look like drooping gingerbread houses. It is the vision of a dying mountain town, except for the odd 5-m-by-8-m rectangular slab of metal perched...