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...step, a magnetic sensor in the heel measures the force exerted by a runner and transmits this data to a microprocessor under the arch. The chip drives a tiny cable system that adjusts the heel, which gets harder to cushion the blow when your tired feet are pounding the pavement and then softer to relax them while walking across the lawn. The shoe might also relax your wallet: the Adidas 1 will retail at $250 when it hits stores this winter. --By Sean Gregory
...gotten even easier to do (and, logic dictates, worse-sounding): pimply techheads everywhere are filling the internet with cryable cross-genre “mash-ups” of old and new pop songs (cf. Jay Z’s lyrics on top of Pavement, Weezer, Sgt. Pepper). Erstwhile DJ, dork-stud and half of the folksy Kings of Convenience Erlend Oye doesn’t need to prove his musical chops, and as the DJ Kicks logo indicates, he’s no “Rad DJ” Adrien Brody. For this umpteeth compilation of the famed...
...want to eat the best pickled-tea-leaf salad in Rangoon, possibly in all of Burma, go to Mrs. Greedy's tea shop, a collection of plastic furniture occupying the pavement opposite Sule Pagoda. And if you want to talk without fear of being overheard, do what my Burmese friend Ko Myo did when I met him there one evening: lift up one of Mrs. Greedy's tables and set it down several feet from the nearest customers. Even then you talk in an undertone. It's a reminder that despite Burma's tourist-friendly veneer?how many dictatorships have...
What carry him through these rough patches are his voice--which has a wry charisma reminiscent of the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus--and terrific production by Ethan Johns. On My Way is barely electric, but Johns (whose father Glyn was a pioneer in intimate recording techniques and one of the early producers on Let It Be) finds a way to make it rock at every opportunity. For now, Kweller is still just a guy with a guitar. But he's aging quite well. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...solution, says engineer Bob Bernhard, co-director of Purdue University's Institute for Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways, is to change not the tires but the road surface. "You can make the pavement porous," he says, "which affects the air-pumping mechanism. You can also mix a little rubber in with the asphalt, which changes the road's stiffness." Porous surfaces are already being rolled out in parts of Georgia, Florida and Arizona, as well as in Europe...