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...evening cookouts--can be a real drag if you can't tell who's who. Pc/nametag, a Madison, Wis., company that makes ID products for business meetings, thinks its GloTags are the solution. The reusable plastic tags are the size of a business card and are powered by lithium batteries. The tags come with special markers filled with erasable glow-in-the-dark ink. Just write on the faceplate, switch on the tag and project your name in lights. Pc/nametag can also customize the tags to feature corporate logos or slogans. Although GloTags are decidedly less geeky than...
...scarf. Designed for extreme cold, the North Face MET5 jacket can keep you warm all by itself, thanks to a network of microscopic, waterproof heating elements woven into the fabric. Working a control unit stashed near the chest, you can dial the heat up to 114[degrees]F. Small lithium-ion batteries keep the juice flowing for up to five hours...
...included) and speak the number aloud; voice-recognition technology converts the sounds into digits and places the call. To activate the phone, users simply push the green call button. Color-coded lights indicate when the 30 min. of prepaid talk time is running low (yellow) or out (red). The lithium-ion batteries will last for up to two years, so your minutes will probably run out before your batteries...
MODERATE $329 Palm m500 At a svelte 4 oz. and 0.4 in. thick, the M500 doesn't look like a workhorse. But there's power in that tiny package--8MB of memory and rechargeable lithium polymer batteries. Best of all, it comes with all the trimmings: a backlit black-and-white screen, a vibrate alert and a slot for expansion cards roomy enough for an entire travel guide. www.palm.com...
...also the temperatures, to a millionth of a degree, of these warm and cool regions gives theoretical physicists all sorts of information about the newborn cosmos. They were already pretty sure, from the equations of nuclear physics and from measurements of the relative amounts of hydrogen, helium and lithium in the universe, that protons, neutrons and electrons (the building blocks of every atom in the cosmos) add up to only about 5% of the so-called critical density--what it would take to bring the cosmic expansion essentially to a halt by means of gravity...