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...encouraged another: the love affair with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill - who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor" - retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling menswear in the '70s. Now the company is tuning up its image with the help...
...THERE A HIGH-TECH DEVICE YOU CAN'T DO WITHOUT? I definitely like my BlackBerry. I like my digital camera. I'm amazed that you can buy something for $200 that can hold 488 8-megapixel photos. It's incredible...
...Okay, so you can't imagine spending $550, or even $400, on high-tech sunglasses, especially ones you can't wear in many situations and, also especially, ones that you suspect make you look dorky. How about $200? That's the lowest priced pair of the cheaper iZon Digital sunglasses (available at izonstore.com), which lack Oakley's reputation for eyewear but nevertheless have a decent-sounding integrated MP3 player that's just as easy to load up on your PC. Instead of adjustable ear phones, the iZon has standard earbuds dangling from short wires, but at a distance...
Most counterterrorism experts don't think high-tech bomb-detection solutions will ever work for public transit. Trains and buses are useful precisely because they are convenient, fast and cheap--and therefore hard to secure. That's why the oft repeated complaint that the government spends far more on aviation security than on transit is a bit of an oversimplification. It's true that the Feds have spent $18 billion on protecting planes and only $250 million exclusively on transit since 9/11. But that's partly because aviation is much easier to secure. And it's also because local officials...
...with the money the country has, all it has to do is buy innovation or get it for free. People are falling all over themselves to establish a presence in China. Over time, the Chinese will learn how to innovate, just as they have learned how to make high-tech products at rock-bottom prices...