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...many calories are you burning reading this magazine? Now there's a way to find out. Just breathe into the BodyGem, a hand-held gizmo that instantly measures your base metabolic rate. Armed with that information, you'll know how many calories you can eat per day and how much exercise you'll need to burn them off. The BodyGem is available at select health clubs--check www.healthetech.com to find out which ones--just in time for turkey season...
...technology side, the Harry Potter hand-held electronic games are outdated. The tiny, colorless, dot matrix screens are a far cry from the technological genius of a Gameboy Advance, but young children may be lured by the simplicity of the games and the colorful and creative 3-D control pads. The Fluffy Action Game actually snaps the mouth of two of its three heads on the player’s thumbs. “That’s right,” says the packaging, “his mouth could suddenly snap closed and chomp your fingers! If you?...
...This hand-held icebreaker, sold in pink and blue, works like a walkie-talkie, simultaneously sending and receiving information from other carriers. Users can select preferences, such as “dance,” “butch,” or “horny, “ in order to screen potential hookups. The Gay Radar responds more forcefully when the person detected fits those preferences. When it zones in on a particularly hot homosexual, Gay Radar goes wild, beeping, flashing, and vibrating, a particularly subtle signal that there may be love at first detection...
...hoods laboriously seal their comrade's corpse behind a wall, then hear the sound of a beeper?it's the dead man's, which they need to get further instructions, and they buried it with him behind the wall. Wai visualized this complex farrago with a dizzying display of hand-held, fish-eye, overhead, upside-down shots. The film seemed to herald a brazen, bracing solo directing career. Instead, he went back to scripting...
...Just such complaints, after all, combined with a coldhearted cost-benefit analysis, have prompted many states to take a hard line approach to mobile phone usage. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 42 states have introduced laws barring drivers from using hand-held cell phones. Most lawmakers see the ban as a win-win proposition - while irrefutable supporting data are still in the pipeline, preliminary evidence suggests that drivers are more reckless when they?re on the phone. And if simply keeping people off their cell phones while they drive (or just putting the darn thing...