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Former President Bill Clinton is riding green, thanks to Ford Motor Company. The automaker announced today that it has crafted a hybrid SUV fit for presidential service. In addition to getting 32 miles to the gallon, the Mercury Mariner Hybrid ?Presidential Edition? is designed to be an executive's office on wheels and boasts a Secret Service-approved security system...
...shiny metal friends as forces for good. Last week Seiji Uchida, who has been paralyzed from the neck down since 1983, came within 150 m of summiting the 4,164-m Breithorn, in the Swiss Alps, with the help of a robotic power suit named HAL (for Hybrid Assistive Limb, not to be confused with the homicidal HAL 9000 computer in 2001). Starting at 3,800 m, he hitched a ride up the mountain on the back of his friend, climber Takeshi Matsumoto, who wore the computerized exoskeleton built by Japanese tech firm Cyberdyne (not to be confused with...
...HowStuffWorks Easy-breezy explanations of how things work, from money laundering to hybrid cars, game consoles to the human kidneys...
...Since its launch eight months ago, the unique hybrid site that is part smokinggun.com, part Entertainment Tonight and part Candid Camera, has trained its seemingly omnipresent microphones and lenses at the gated driveways of movie star residences and the velvet-roped entrances to Hollywood's hottest nightspots, while scouring public records and plumbing a deep well of sources to capture the boldface names in their habitat...
...more of our technology intersecting with home entertainment," says Ro Parra, a senior vice president of Dell's home and small-business group. To entice gamesters and movie watchers, Dell has unveiled new models in its multimedia XPS line. The units range from a $3,500 desktop-notebook hybrid with a 20-in. screen and a remote, to a $2,270 gaming desktop with a swanky scarlet-and-gray exterior and high-end specs. Its purchase of Alienware, a leading seller of game computers, will give Dell cachet in that segment. Parra says Dell's stores give consumers a chance...