Word: nomadism
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...next frontier in portable digital music players is space--storage space. You can't squeeze a rock epic like Kiss's Double Platinum into the 32 MB (an hour of music, at best) that is standard on such popular MP3 players as the Rio 600. But the new Nomad Jukebox ($499), due out next week from Creative, has a hotter-than-hell 6 GB of memory. That's enough to keep you rockin' all night...
Alcatraz (Parfums Deja New) Ocean Drive (Parfums Deja New) Pi (Givenchy) O2xygen (California North) Adidas Moves (Coty) Contradiction (Calvin Klein) Casual Friday (Escada) Beach Smells (smell THIS) Modern (Banana Republic) Nomad (Crabtree & Evelyn) Positively Him! (BeautiControl) Pruning Shears (Demeter...
...unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should live like a Mauritanian nomad...
...robot deployed in Antarctica to look for meteorites has returned in triumph. Nomad, a joint project sponsored by the Robotic Institute of Carnegie-Mellon and NASA's Space Telerobotics Program (bet you didn't know they had one), set out on its own to look for space rocks stuck in ice and came back with three of them. Scientists hope Nomad's success bodes well for robotic exploration of other planets. You know what they say about Antarctica: if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere...
...Nomad is unquestionably the most successful attempt at robotic exploration ever attempted. Looking something like a driverless dune buggy, Nomad weighs 1,200 pounds and measures 2.4 meters square. It's built around a chassis that mechanically changes shape to conform to the demands of the landscape, and each of its studded, snow-tired wheels has an independent motor. It's powered by a gasoline generator and makes a top speed of .5 meters per second...