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...Harvard Provisional Store, known lovingly to those who can purchase alcohol as the Pro. Though less relevant to students’ lives, the closing of the classy Upstairs at the Pudding restaurant after a University buyout is another casualty. Instead of independent stores, Harvard Square now mirrors an outdoor mall. Staples joins Abercrombie & Fitch, Pacific Sunwear, Pizzeria Uno’s, Urban Outfitters and the Sunglass Hut, among the other chain stores that radiate from Out-Of-Town News...
...them: half-man, half-machine. Part of my face and most of the top of my head are covered by evil-looking electronic gadgetry; there is more scary stuff strapped to my left wrist and around my waist. Getting into character, I wander around a giant shopping mall in Fairfax, just outside Washington, D.C., frightening the living daylights out of small children. It's all I can do to stop myself from intoning, like the captain of the Enterprise: "I am Locutus. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over." When they see me coming, kids stop...
Before coming to the mall, I tried out the MA-IV at the Xybernaut headquarters. I surfed the Web, first checking out some Star Trek sites (it seemed the appropriate thing to do), then the soccer scores and my e-mail. I considered playing an online computer game, but then remembered that I'm lousy at those. So I sent a how-are-you message to my boss in Hong Kong. For the first 10 minutes I fumbled with the tiny keyboard and trackball. But soon I was able to write entire sentences with relative ease - about 10 words...
...consumers," he says. Newman doesn't know this, but he's talking about me: I still swear by my old Palm Pilot. Would I buy a wearable? Yes, if it weighs less than a kilo, costs less than $1,500 and - as cool as I felt at that Fairfax mall - doesn't make me look like a Borg...
...Smart T shirts may only display age-appropriate material and must turn off political messages when entering a mall or other public facilities. Covering a smart T shirt (i.e. with a jacket) will require the wearer to refund the smart T shirt a prorated fee for the time covered...