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Artistic Eyes Not content with designing magazine pages and perfume bottles, creative director Fabien Baron introduces a collection of eyewear for Modo. Handcrafted in Japan, each of the 14 styles is made of either block acetate or block titanium...
...Europe and Japan, mobile phones have become the indispensable tool of youth. At my niece's London high school, students routinely messaged one another during class. In the U.S., by contrast, the major phone companies haven't targeted kids, and the start-ups that tried to, like Modo, got nowhere. Why not? Chatting is just about the only thing that most of the miserably antiquated U.S. cell phones are good for. In Europe, by contrast, text messaging is almost as significant a use as talk, while in Japan, pink-haired, platform-soled teenagers play cute little games with each other...
...www.citysync.com) Vindigo covers most major U.S. cities; CitySync, which is produced by the people who write the Lonely Planet travel guides, doesn't include as many U.S. locations, but it does throw in cities such as London and Paris. I also brought along a weird little gizmo called Modo ($99 at www.modo.net) Modo is a city guide that runs on its own funky-looking hardware (it resembles an evil ladybug from outer space). It covers only New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the beauty part of Modo is that it receives its listings wirelessly...
...lunchtime--it gave me way too many restaurant listings, a number of which were halfway across town. If you're not into marathon walking, Vindigo's a better bet; it can sort its listings by distance from your present location. Over lunch I decided to catch a movie. Modo was the most helpful here. Not only did it give me accurate movie times, it also had the lowdown on which theaters had nice seats and big screens...
...great for pinpointing exactly where you want to go. CitySync costs more, but it provides a lot of data the others don't, such as museum hours, emergency numbers and even street maps. If I were visiting a city for the first time, I'd want CitySync with me. Modo is the priciest, and its search functions are weak, but it is full of quirky finds you would never see elsewhere...