Word: palming
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November on Florida's Gulf Coast makes a much different postcard. Newly planted palm trees line swaths of land buzzing with the construction of one business complex after another. In a spiffy new housing development, the Everetts relax under the vaulted ceilings of their living room, gazing out through glass doors at their pool and hot tub overlooking a lake. A year ago, Delia's employer, magazine distributor Source Interlink, decided to consolidate its several big-city offices and relocate to Bonita Springs, Fla. (pop. 32,800), a fast-sprouting town on the booming stretch of coastline between Fort Myers...
...soon as the curtain rose, I was struck by how well the set and lighting design worked together to conjure the play’s exotic world. Papier-mâché palm trees, swaths of pastel gauze drawn up to evoke the island-mountains, and bright lights in pinks and turquoises (shifting whenever there was a change in mood), were just the sort of cotton-candy mood-setters that the production needed. The effect was not particularly subtle, but it was completely satisfying...
Ready for a shocking fashion statement? The No-Contact Jacket may look pretty fly, but it's also a piece of serious personal-defense technology. If the wearer feels threatened in any way, she (so far it's only for women) can activate a switch in either palm that blasts an 80,000-volt electrical pulse through the jacket's material. That's enough to knock anybody back a few paces. Powered by a regular 9-volt battery, the No-Contact Jacket is fully insulated, so the wearer won't feel a thing. Even when...
Long ago--around 2001--a cell phone that was also a Palm-type organizer was enough to make a gadget freak drool. Now you can get hot video games and a decent MP3 player wrapped up in one device. Lots of handhelds have full Web browsers too, along with instant messaging and a medley of ring tones that are fast becoming standard fare. We even found a GPS tracking device with a built-in jogging computer that you wear on your wrist. Fortunately, many of these new machines also come with improved battery life and enhanced color screens. This...
Tapwave Zodiac More game platform than organizer, the Zodiac is the only Palm OS device to offer 3-D graphics. Its Bluetooth wireless technology lets you go head to head in games like Doom II. tapwave.com...