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...beach. Another improvement is the way the tiny, dual-joint speakers can be made to pivot in six directions instead of two, allowing the wearer to position them at almost any angle. Operationally, the Thump 2 is a breeze, coming with a USB cable that lets you plug it into your laptop, PC or Mac, and upload songs in WMA, WAV or iTunes formats as well as regular MP3. It can also store data files, which leads one to the tantalizing possibility of turning up to a meeting, taking off a pair of shades and uploading a presentation from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch: Sound and Vision | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...beach. Another improvement is the way the tiny, dual-joint speakers can be made to pivot in six directions instead of two, allowing the wearer to position them at almost any angle. Operationally, the Thump 2 is a breeze, coming with a USB cable that lets you plug it into your laptop, PC or Mac, and upload songs in WMA, WAV or iTunes formats as well as regular MP3. It can also store data files, which leads one to the tantalizing possibility of turning up to a meeting, taking off a pair of shades and uploading a presentation from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound And Vision | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...addiction to oil.” Possibilities include a gas tax, increased subsidies for hybrid vehicles, or penalties for gas-guzzling SUVs. With the right economic incentives, consumers would be happy to pull up to the 76 or Mobil station only every other month in 100-mile-per-gallon, plug-in hybrid cars. According to a 2004 report from the Congressional Budget Office, it is estimated that a gasoline tax of 46 cents a gallon, up from today’s federal tax of 18 cents, would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 percent over the next 14 years. We would...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Rehab for the Oil Fix | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...author's death, the copyright on Peter Pan will have lapsed everywhere outside Britain where it enjoys perpetual protection. gosh has never disclosed, at Barrie's request, its income from stage and screen productions and other tie-ins, but the hospital is banking on a new Peter to plug the gap. Barrie took seven years to turn his play Peter Pan into a best-selling novel; McCaughrean has delivered Peter Pan in Scarlet in as many months and though she's sworn to secrecy, she's itching to talk about it. There will be flying and fairy dust, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return to Neverland | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

...next two years? Yet that is what officials on both sides of the Atlantic are saying as the alliance faces up to the reality of its ambition, announced in February 2005, to take on a bigger role in Afghanistan. The Dutch parliament is now threatening to pull the plug on the Netherlands' 1,200-strong contribution to the expanded mission. The Netherlands is still gripped by the humiliation its country's troops suffered almost 10 years ago when they were taken hostage and then had to stand by as Muslims were herded out of Srebrenica to a massacre. Other European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

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