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Breast implants, liposuction, hair plugs--these are the celebrity surgeries we are excited to hear about. Laser eye surgery is arguably less sexy than mole removal, except perhaps when it comes to Elton John, a man who has made a virtue of his myopia. John claims to have amassed 4,000 pairs of glasses during his career, but now, he says, he's grown weary of specs: "I'm so fed up with 'Where are they?'" he said in a television interview, explaining why he's having the eye procedure done early next year. Look for 4,000 pairs...
...computer monitors can shrink to almost nothing, why not keyboards? They soon may. Two companies have developed prototype "virtual" keyboards designed to accompany portable devices like PDAs, tablet PCs and cell phones. Here's how they work: a laser beam projects a glowing red outline of a keyboard on a desk or other flat surface. A sensor like those used in digital cameras monitors the reflection of an infrared light projected on the same spot. It can tell which "keys" you are trying to strike by the way that reflection changes. Someday, similar keyboards may be built into the gadgets...
...wait, there’s more! The Vapir is also armed with a purple laser light, which in Vapir-brochure-hyperbolic-speak is elegantly termed the “Herbal Illuminative Photon Ejector,” so that the user can see the essence of plant before becoming one with it. The on-panel digital display also features a handy alarm to alert you when digital aromatherapy session should end and your post-digital-aromatherapy-session snack should begin. Future models of the Vapir even promise a USB port so that the device can interface with the Internet or your...
...right, this could happen to anybody. But then the family dog gets infested and infected, attacks two of the kids, dies gruesomely, is buried and sends an infernal laser beam into the grieving brother, who becomes a blood-sucking vampire. This family makes the House of Atreus seem like the Partridges. By the time Granny?s birthday cake is served - and one of the guests notices too late that it?s full of worms, cuing her to vomit the Betty Crocker Maggot Mix on the floor ? you may want to follow the advice of this patch of ?Devil Fetus? dialogue...
Singlehanded competition features a captain without a crew sailing a laser, not the two-man larks that Harvard usually employs. To prepare for the uncommon boats, the team has been practicing in them once a week since the women qualified for their national tournament in early October. Other than that weekly preparation, the Crimson has not been able to devote too much time to singlehanded sailing...