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...npr.org) I had never bothered sifting through the thousands of stations that broadcast online. Now a start-up called Sonicbox is making it easy for lazybones like me to tune in to the rest of the world from the comfort of home. Its new iM Remote Tuner is a handheld remote control for Internet radio that not only lets you switch stations from up to 100 ft. away from your PC--even if you're in another room--but also lets you play the music through your home stereo speakers. You can get it online at sonicbox.com...
...MAILIN' ME? Passengers in New York City taxis are generally too busy fearing for their life to get bored, but in that unlikely event, they can now pass the time by surfing the Internet. The Web portal Yahoo has mounted Palm VII handheld computers, which can access the Internet wirelessly, in the backseats of 10 New York cabs; it also painted and upholstered them in purple. Unfortunately, you still won't be able to hail one when it's raining...
Admit it, you snickered when you first heard that women would be weight lifting in these Olympics. You imagined huge hairy-chested Belarussians with no teeth who built up muscle from pushing a handheld stump-jump plough. But I have seen this sport and, reader, it is glorious. This is the kind of sport for which the Olympics were invented...
...barely seen at all. It was created by Spike Jonze, the 29-year-old director of Being John Malkovich, a surreal movie about people getting inside a celebrity's head. No wonder it's a Gore favorite. (Bush's most recent favorite is Forrest Gump.) After using a handheld camera to shoot the Gores at their Tennessee farm and a North Carolina beach house, Jonze came up with a deftly cut montage of Gore kicking back and having fun. He makes Tipper blush by showing off the nude self-portrait she painted when pregnant with Karenna. He offers the obligatory...
...wasn't exactly going into this purchase cold. I've been playing with a pre-production model for the past month and think it's a great tool not only for my mom but also for most people looking for an entry-level handheld. The best thing about it is that it runs Palm's operating system. That means you can load virtually any of the thousands of free applications available on the Net for Palm compatibles...