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...while i-mode operates at only a poky 9.6 kbps, the company promises that when its service moves to third-generation wireless technology, 3G, it will blow away anything on your desktop PC. DoCoMo will introduce 3G in Japan this spring and then begin a global rollout in Europe, first using a somewhat slower interim technology. AT&T Wireless plans to offer a version of i-mode later this year...
...GETTER Hey, parents! We've finally found a video-game system designed to lengthen--not shorten--your child's attention span. Developer East3 redesigned some NASA biofeedback technology to build the Attention Trainer, a helmet that monitors brain activity through the scalp. The data are relayed wirelessly to a PC and used in special games developed by Hasbro Interactive in which vehicles move faster or targets grow larger when players focus their attention. At about $1,000, it's not quite ready for the PlayStation crowd...
...recycled PC, on the other hand, is literally a gold mine. Pentium and other processors have golden tips. A computer's main circuit board, fashioned from copper and fiber glass, is studded with silver and gold connectors. A steel frame keeps the unit sturdy, and aluminum or copper heat sinks prevent the cpu from overheating. The outer plastic case can be recycled to make everything from pothole filler to pencil holders. Even the cords dangling from the back have rich copper wiring that can be reincarnated as pipes, pans or furniture...
...other reusable parts, it's still tough to make any money recycling PCs. Minus the cost of processing, the average used system is worth a measly $6 in raw materials, according to electronics recycler Envirocycle in Hallstead, Pa. The monitor is worth just $2.50. When IBM announced its consumer-PC recycling program last fall, it decided to have the carcasses shipped not to its 700,000-sq.-ft. recycling center in Endicott (where it mines corporate PCs for parts) but to an independent recycler 30 miles away. The reason: "Typically all that low-end stuff is not profitable," says Lawrence...
...material value of each PC that the first step in recycling is to try to resell the machine--either whole or for its working parts. IBM resells a third of the used equipment it gets back from corporate leases in online sales and auctions. "It's a profitable business for us," says Joe Lane, general manager for global financing. Old chips get second lives in electronic toys. Outdated CD-ROM and hard drives are reborn as replacement parts...