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Walk Man Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba Availability: Near future, $14,000-$19,000 To Learn More: sanlab.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp Enter ... Mecha-Grandma! Japanese researchers have developed a robotic exoskeleton to help the elderly and disabled walk and even lift heavy objects like the jug of water above. It's called the Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL. (The inventor has obviously never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.) Its brain is a computer (housed in a backpack) that learns to mimic the wearer's gait and posture; bioelectric sensors pick up signals transmitted from the brain to the muscles...
...biggest new wine out of France last year was born in the mind of an American: Joe Gallo. That's Gallo, as in E&J Gallo Winery, America's biggest wine producer and a company many people still associate with California jug wines like Carlo Rossi. Three years ago, Joe, co-president of the company and son of legendary co-founder Ernest, returned from a trip to Europe and asked his consumer-research team to explain his French paradox: that most Americans still rated French wines as the best in the world but the French were rapidly losing market share...
...second largest wine company, with estimated sales of $3 billion (after publicly held Constellation Brands, whose series of acquisitions brought sales to $4.1 billion), family-run Gallo has the industry's top research and marketing staff and has become legendary for seizing on consumer trends--whether they were jug wines in the '70s, Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers in the '80s or development of new premium wines like Gallo of Sonoma ($10 to $65 a bottle) in the '90s. Since 1996, Gallo has quietly launched foreign ventures, most notably Black Swan, produced with Australia's Brian McGuigan winery. The brand sold...
...already planning new international brands, from Chile and Germany. He thinks the company's New Zealand partnership has a lot of potential. "Our objective is to fill as many different niches as we can," says Gallo. It's wine on a global scale, a long way from California jug wine, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. --With reporting by Liz Keenan/Sydney, Mimi Murphy/Rome and Grant Rosenberg/Paris
...kind of illustrated autobiography. Crumb provides commentary on his development as a person and an artist in passages interspersed with copious examples of his art and family photos. (A full multi-media package, it also comes with a CD of Crumb's recorded sessions with various amateur string and jug bands.) In a conversational style that frequently lapses into hilarious tirades against consumer culture, the media and any of a half dozen other peeves, Crumb reminisces about growing up as a child of 1950s suburbia through his later years as a museum-worthy "arteest" living in France. Always entertaining...