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...know where your children are? You do if they're wearing the Wherify GPS Personal Locator ($399). At its core, the tracker relies on global positioning satellites that always know, within a few feet, Junior's location. Designed around a wristwatch, the personal locator also has a built-in pager and panic button for alerting 911. And you thought your mom was overprotective...
BERRYPHONE We remember the BlackBerry when it was a popular beeper-size, mini-keyboard-equipped pager that allowed users to send and receive e-mail wirelessly almost anywhere. Two years ago, it grew a bigger screen for Web browsing and appointment booking. Finally, last week, the BlackBerry PDA 5810 ($499) sprouted a cell phone. Now it's all grown...
...trademarking the phrase "Get Chipped!"--has big plans for its little device. In the next few years, it wants to add sensors that will read your vital signs--pulse, temperature, blood sugar and so on--and a satellite receiver that can track where you are. The company makes a pager-like gadget called Digital Angel that does both those things, and its engineers are doing their darnedest to cram Digital Angel's functions into a package small enough to implant. Once they do, VeriChip will be very powerful indeed. That's one of the reasons the Jacobses want...
...Price of a BlackBerry pager to be included in the gift bags given to Grammy Award presenters...
ALLOWED Cornrows or braids, baldness (both voluntary and "involuntary"), dyed hair if it looks "natural" (no blue, pink or fire-engine red), and one pager, cell phone or digital organizer per person (but not all three, since grenades have to go somewhere...