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...Gizmos for the Real World "Coolest Inventions" was an interesting survey of up-to-date products [Nov. 24]. I especially liked the item on Toyota's Intelligent Parking Assist, the optional self-parking feature in the new Prius that uses software to allow a car to parallel park itself while the driver doesn't even have to touch the steering wheel. This technology will be a big seller, especially for drivers like my mother, who faces many difficulties in parallel parking. Koji Yamazaki Toyohashi, Japan...
...Setting the Record Straight Digital Audio The Coolest Inventions item "Digital Jamming," about a new electric guitar [Nov. 24], mistakenly said that Gibson is the "first musical-instrument maker to release an electric guitar with a digitizing microprocessor and circuit board built right in." Gibson was not the first to produce this type of guitar. The musical-instrument company Line 6 began selling its Variax guitar with a digitizing microprocessor in December...
Mobile: Shortened from “mobile phone.” Can be directly substituted for “cell phone,” surprisingly enough an item equally annoying in Australia as it is across the Pacific...
Maybe The Crimson didn’t turn out to be the one-line resume item I had thought it would be. But driving the U-Haul back from New Haven, singing oldies as we barrelled down the dark Mass. Pike, I didn’t regret not seeing my roommates more ornot finishing my Dostoevsky. And yet, when we pulled into The Crimson’s parking lot that night, I was glad to go back to my room and finally get some sleep...
Catalano said HUPD is concerned because these 10 thefts target a specific item...