Word: icebox
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...Touring these swank digs, it's hard to remember that this is the same city where 15 years ago the richest folks found delight simply in a new icebox. The pace of change in Shanghai (double-digit growth rates for the past decade) is so rapid that my real estate agent had upgraded her Nokia cell phone between our first and second meetings?the third mobile she'd got in as many months. Sure, most people aren't living in the ch?teaus of Shanghai, but incomes have increased so fast that 60% of the city's households now own their...
KITCHEN NET Next time you have an epicurious.com emergency, CMi Worldwide hopes you'll reach for its iCEBOX, a 9-in. TV with Web access, e-mail, an audio and video CD drive (but no DVD player) and spillproof wireless keyboard. The $500 unit, due out in March, only works with the company's own $20-per-month Internet service--a drawback for those already online with another service. Designed specifically for the kitchen--a bracket, sold separately, makes it a space saver--the iCEBOX can do something few other info appliances can: connect to closed-circuit cameras for monitoring...