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PRINTS CHARMING There's a reason you hide your printer under the desk: printers are the plain Janes of the home office. But the P-2600 ($50) from Apollo, a unit of Hewlett-Packard, begs to be displayed. It comes in midnight blue and white and boasts an appealing round-edged design. Print speed is a respectable seven pages a minute for black and white. Color printing is slower, but at least you'll enjoy the view...
Wang Shen is a printer in China's capital, and his business is inking just about any document you want, legitimate or otherwise. But even Wang was taken aback when a man in a baseball cap strolled into his narrow, back-room shop, plonked $80 on the table and asked him to forge a pilot's license. Two days later, it was ready, expertly laminated and adorned with a pair of red seals. "It looked very real," says the 34-year-old printer. "The man came back and told me no one could tell the difference...
...Wang now prefers to travel by train: he has learned firsthand that you never know who's flying your plane. (Then again, he has heard of a rival printer who has been producing bogus train-engineer diplomas.) But Wang figures it's better to be in a train accident than a plane crash?though it may not make much of a difference, considering how many doctors in China are practicing thanks to fake accreditation certificates from printing shops like Wang...
...unexpected, after the bad history of India, the invasions and the dispossessions, and after the rigors of the recent independence struggle. But it was in keeping with the mystical, almost Gandhian, idea of India he had laid out in 1949 in Mr. Sampath (in the United States, The Printer of Malgudi): the idea of an eternal India, ever healing, ever renewed. He had been too long away from India, he said. He was getting restless; he needed to go for his walks, to be among his characters...
...iSmell works a bit like an ink-jet printer. You slip a scent cartridge into the shoe-box-sized device, which can mix thousands of smells using the same chemicals found in perfumes and food. It then releases a dose of the scent in short, focused spurts. Though a spokesman announced the company's demise last month, DigiScents continues to pin its hopes on the video-game market. Co-founder and chief executive officer Joel Bellenson predicts that a year from now players firing off a round of ammunition in a virtual shoot-out will be immersed in the smell...