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...with the price at around $200. While those numbers don't get into iPod or TiVo territory, Krikorian argues that Slingbox is outpacing most debut devices. "We're actually on a pretty torrid pace for a new technology,'' he says. It's helped that critics have raved about his gizmo. "Once you have it, you'll wonder why everyone else doesn't," gushed msnbc in March. True, the setup can be tricky - users have to tie the device into an Internet router as well as into a TV set-top box, and they have to download software. And Slingbox makes...
...effects are even more eye-catching. According to research by global ad agency Mediaedge:cia, around 50% of adults worldwide have experienced "new outdoor" ads, a figure that rises to 65% of adults in Singapore and 75% in Hong Kong. In Japan, 30 million phones are equipped with a gizmo for reading QR Code, a tiny two-dimensional bar code commonly found on the front of magazines, which can bounce readers to a website, a competition or discount coupons. Last October in Tokyo, Northwest Airlines blew up QR codes to as large as 10 m in height and put them...
...users who have their hands full with other tasks at their desks can control their email with their feet. As an audience of assistants, members of the research team and star-struck employees watched, Gates, clad in a maroon crew neck sweater and khaki colored trousers, tried out the gizmo. Standing on the dance pad, he stomped on the down arrow and watched the cursor move down the list. His right loafer hopped on the right arrow until it moved up to the delete function marked by X and then he stomped forcefully and obliterated the entry...
...GIRLS WHO LIKE SOME CURL For eyelashes that need a tweak--or for the beauty-product aficionado--Tweezerman's limited-edition pocket curler is the ultimate stocking stuffer. The rounded, nonlatex pad is easy on the eyes, and the gizmo's cut-down size makes it portable in the purse...
...Toronto Film Festival, honors and expands the old formula. The townsfolk are preparing for the Giant Vegetable Competition held each year by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter). To allay the villagers' fears that their supersize tomatoes and zucchini may be ravaged by rabbits, Wallace invents a gizmo that captures the critters without hurting them--much to the disapproval of Lady T.'s slimy suitor, Victor Quartermaine (a perfectly pompous Ralph Fiennes), who would rather blast the bunnies to bits. Soon the locals have a larger, more vicious threat: the mysterious, vegemaniacal Were-Rabbit...