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...What Lies Beneath? PACKING HEAT. It's time for serious sidelong glances. An Internet site is selling a line of undies called THUNDERWEAR for those who like their firearms up close and personal. Just tuck your gun into the secret pocket. (You can choose from various pocket sizes depending on whether you're slinging a .44 magnum or a mere "Saturday-night special.") In China, meanwhile, inventor Zhao Xin attempted suicide because of the failure of CHASTITY UNDERWEAR, which guarantees fidelity through a built-in combination lock. Zhao never got a patent approved, and perhaps it's just as well...
...Soft Technology Easy Squeezy Britain's ElectroTextiles, with international design group IDEO, has dreamed up two varieties of soft cell phone: a pocket mobile and a wrist device. It's ElekTex material combines conductive fabric with microchip technology. A PDA-friendly soft keyboard that can roll up in a pocket is expected next year. ElectroTextiles sees no end of applications for ElekTex, including clothes and toys. Next stop the beanie phone...
Chatting online with some Manila friends in 1999, Eyestrain decided to return to the capital. He got off the bus with $150 in his pocket and hopes of finding work as a programmer or system administrator. But without a degree, finding computer work has been impossible. Ieta Chi, general manager at Trend Microsystems, an antivirus company that employs more than 280 people at its Manila office, says his desk is flooded with applicants like Eyestrain. "We can't really afford to waste time seeing people who haven't even finished school," Chi says...
Bing, his long black hair half-tied into a ponytail, stands next to a cinder-block wall rubbing his eyes. Above his head, a thick trail of red army ants runs between a crack in the wall and a smashed piece of pineapple. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tissue in which he has wrapped four doa (bodies, slang for speed tablets). Jacky stops doing her nails, smiles and invites Bing back into her hut, asking sweetly, "Oh, Bing, where have you been...
...long run, though, Palm's biggest threat may come from Microsoft, which makes the Pocket PC software platform for PDAs sold by Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. "Microsoft has tremendously deep pockets, and it seems to stick to things until it gets them right," says Palm CEO Carl Yankowski...