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...This portable gadget runs little Web applications so you can access Internet information quickly and easily without your computer. Widgets update you visually on the weather, traffic or stock market, or you can use them to showcase your Flickr photos bedside, or to check out just about any other bit of Web content that interests you, even an eBay auction. This simply designed, elegant little device stands alone and can travel with you. After winning an innovation award at CES this week, Emtrace will release it in the U.S. this spring, though the price has yet to be announced...
...Wouldn't it be nice if you could diagnose your car's ills without handing over the keys to a shady auto mechanic? Car MD's handy new $90 gadget is designed to measure the health of any car made in 1996 or later. The little device plugs into a port below your car's dashboard and presents a red, yellow or green light to let you know if there's something wrong with the vehicle's electronics. It won't tell you if your tire pressure is low or give you a detailed breakdown...
Since this is the last Gadget of the Week column before Christmas, I decided to lend a hand to any panicked last-minute shopper-or any lucky electronics store gift-card recipient. We covered a lot of great potential gifts in November's tech buyer's guide, but here are a few more essentials...
...glasses without generating eye-punishing heat or bulking the device up. Kokinakis says people tend to watch video in 20-min. vignettes while sitting on a train or plane, so the goggles may not need the same battery power demanded of notebook computers. For now, he says, the iPod gadget relieves you of having to tilt your head down or hold your arm up to look at the image...
...Veldt” centers on the newest gee-whiz gadget that an overworked father of the “Father Knows Best” ilk (Jonah C. Priour ’09) gets for his parentally-neglected kids (Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 and Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09): a playroom which perfectly reproduces any place one could wish to go. It comes to represent the children’s resentment toward their parents, eventually allowing their emotions to take murderous form, despite the worries of their mother (Victoria J. Crutchfield...