Word: jugs
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...money in the jukebox but can't hear his song. The older woman nods toward a wall-mounted TV, where the greyhounds are in their traps at Warrnambool. "No music till the dogs are finished," she says. Her young colleague is now circling the bar clutching a large glass jug, coins and notes beginning to fill it. "You have some money for my jar, please?" she says. Presuming she relies on tips, you drop in a couple of bucks...
...Stew Design Workshop's Strata chair, crafted from 38 unique pieces of laminated plywood and inspired by geologic formations in the American Southwest, $4,400 (stewdesignworkshop.com) Opposite page: Peonies painting by Stephen Courbois made from pieces of old wallpaper, price upon request (518-321-6517); Esque's Water Drop jug, handmade from recycled glass and processed using wind power, $368 (branchhome.com) Chista's Tamarin slice table by Alon Langotsky, $2,600 (chista.net...
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...
...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