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...England Medical Center in Boston, it is literally child's play. Doctors there are trying out a toy-like device called PediSedate for putting kids to sleep without anxiety. Meant for kids ages 3 to 9, the gadget looks like a big, plastic version of a pilot's headset--in a choice of blue or cranberry--with a snorkel attached. The contraption is connected to a Nintendo Game Boy or, for music lovers, a portable CD player. When it's time for surgery, the child dons the headset (instead of a scary face mask), and, while happily preoccupied, is slipped...
TALKING BLUES The Bluetooth wireless data standard is being incorporated into more and more gadgets, from laptops and printers to cell phones and Palm Pilots. What does it let you do? A cool example: Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Headset HBH-30 ($150) is a lightweight earpiece-microphone that lets you speak unobtrusively through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone sitting in a backpack, a briefcase or even another room as far as 30 ft. away...
Students also provided translations for several workers in Haitian Creole and Portuguese via headset...
...paraphernalia on me: the heaviest bits are the CPU (900 g) and the lithium-ion battery pack (450 g). Being, ahem, somewhat heavyset myself, I scarcely feel the extra weight at first; but after 30 minutes my neck and shoulders are strained from wearing the 400-g headset. With time, practice and some gym work, I could probably get used to the load. Luckily I won't have to. In a couple of months, Xybernaut will launch the MA-V, the next-generation wearable. In December it will release the first mass-market version, yet unnamed...
...also talk to the house itself by wearing a headset -- ordering the home's interactive fairy, "Wildfire," to make you a cup of coffee in the kitchen, run the washing machine, or turn the television...