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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Australian Slang from A to Zed | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In it for the Long-Haul | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

Catalano said HUPD is concerned because these 10 thefts target a specific item...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Investigates Thefts of 10 Projectors | 12/10/2003 | See Source »

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