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...program will ultimately help students looking to become involved in the high-tech world through a variety of programs--for example, providing mentors, bringing speakers to campus, and helping students obtain start-up capital for their projects...
...their retail services, we have seen, surprisingly, an explosion of small neighborhood banks that capitalize on the idea that people will pay a bit extra to see a friendly face." And smart marketers won't underestimate the appeal of a smile: Counterintuitive as it may seem in today's high-tech, high-volume world, these community banks - whose primary selling point is their lack of size - are thriving...
...GRIP For Luddites who still write with pens, A.T. Cross has developed a high-tech item to make the job more pleasant. Twist a dial on its Morph pen ($50), and the device changes from its initial cylindrical shape into a flexible triangular prism, giving you a better grip and providing soft, flat surfaces for your thumb, index and middle fingers. The rubbery material has a pleasant, almost sensual feel, and the sleek design--available in eight colors, including copper, gold and green--makes a style statement...
According to Alexander S. Aiken, associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, high-tech cheating in computer science departments was a precursor to the ways the Internet is now being used to cheat in the humanities...
PSSSST!!! Kids love to share secrets, and now they can do it in high-tech style with a new line of personal communicators. Hasbro's Talkin'acha ($30 in August) is a handheld-size mini-recorder that lets kids create voice messages as long as 8 sec. and pass them to similarly equipped friends three ways: through removable "buzz cards," by holding up two communicators together or simply by touching each other on the arm. Shown here is Girl Tech's Laser Chat ($15 this spring), which can record a message and send it wirelessly as far away...