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...tethers stereo headphones to portable music players. This year everyone seems to be jumping for the chance to cut it. Creative Labs is introducing wireless headphones and an adapter for its Zen Micro that uses a technology called magnetic induction for a clean signal and long battery life. The kit will be available this spring for $150, possibly along with a universal wireless kit for other MP3 players. Motorola and Toshiba are both launching wireless wraparound headphones that use Bluetooth wireless networking to connect to laptops and cell phones, and HP recently introduced a similar pair, primarily for use with...
...outset of her career Sontag produced two fairly bloodless novels, The Benefactor and Death Kit. Neither one made it seem that fiction was her natural milieu. But she went on to publish some fine and original short stories and eventually returned to the novel with new juices flowing. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who sets up a utopian commune in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, all-purpose cultural critic that she made her lasting mark. "Sometimes," she once said, "I feel that...
...prowling under the dining table? Here's a new, high-tech solution from Innotek, based in Garrett, Ind.: pet-proofing Zones, discs the size of smoke detectors that can keep pets out of rooms or away from areas 12 ft. in diameter. Available at innotek.net ($100 for a starter kit), Zones can easily be installed in a doorway or under your favorite lounge chair. As with outdoor invisible fences, dogs wear collars that react when the pets get too close to a Zone. Innotek says the signal is a "nonpainful tingling sensation" combined with an audible cue--a deterrent...
...Regardless of any trivia question, the answer is 'Wayne Gretzky.'" TIP from the book How to Speak Canadian, Eh?, part of a $24.95 "Go Canadian" kit that helps Americans camouflage themselves as Canadians when traveling abroad
...Jetta G. Martin ’05, Annelisa H. Pedersen ’06, Jeremy J. Olson, Marin J.D. Orlosky ’07, Meredith E. Sandberg ’07, Karin C.L. Shieh ’05, Tina Y. Tanhehco ’05, Kit Tempest, Sonia K. Todorova ’07, and Timothy H. Wong ’05. Bring the kids; it’ll be fun for all ages. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $5. 8 p.m.. Also Saturday at 8 p.m. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts...