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MUSCLE POWER Here's a low-tech solution to the high-tech problem of the cell-phone battery that dies without a car or a wall plug in sight. Motorola's FreeCharge windup charger ($80; available this summer) lets you generate electricity with your upper-body strength. Just crank the handle for 30 sec., and the charger converts that mechanical energy into enough juice to power a cell phone for five minutes. Special adapters that fit other popular phones are sold separately...
...known on Apple computers as Airport and to PC geeks as 802.11b, is an increasingly popular way to get online without being tethered to a cable. The connection hangs in the air as a radio signal, ready to be received within 300 ft. of the transmitter. Plug an Internet cable into a wireless router (I used a $199 DSL router from Belkin), put wireless cards in all your computers (they cost about $100 a pop), and you're ready to surf on the move. So, as I discovered when I took a laptop outside, are the neighbors...
...People will beam their flow of sensory experience on the Web, so you can plug in and be someone else, a la Being John Malkovich. We will be able to expand human intelligence." --Ray Kurzweil
...your broadband connection's IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS IP addresses. You can get these things from your Internet provider; your customer-service rep will know what you're talking about. Each is just a series of numbers (e.g., 123.43.2.1) that you'll be prompted to plug in during setup. (If your provider supports a protocol called DHCP, your router should retrieve these settings automatically when you plug it in.) You may also be asked to choose an SSID (service set identifier), work-group names and a wireless channel; keep these consistent for all of your machines...
...been shipping to people for 90 days now,” the attorney told him, “but there isn’t a shred of information to tell people how to use it or even how to get it out of the box and plug it into the wall...