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...case your subwoofer lacks in oomph, this product will literally shake your seat with sound. Forget relaxing on the sofa. Buttkicker's makers want your behind to bounce in synch with a movie's score. Like Smell-o-Vision, this is a solution lacking a problem. If you need vibrations to draw you into a movie, the plot might need some work, not a Buttkicker. And it's not clear what rumbling the gizmo has in store for your garden-variety chick-flick. Does love shake...
...Detroit may also take comfort in knowing that the Chinese cars sold in America will be novelty items at first, and it will take years for the Chinese brands to establish nationwide dealer and service networks. Nonetheless, executives like Chen are optimistic that they'll deliver a product suited to American tastes (and pocketbooks). Liebao is one of the most popular SUVs in China and Chen sees no reason why it can't win over American shoppers too. "When you drive this car," he says of the CS6, "you'll think it has value." Let the great Chinese car race...
...Person of the Year [Dec. 25, 2006--Jan. 1, 2007]. It was well-deserved recognition for the Internet users who are coming together to shape the future in virtually every sphere of our lives. But it is also an opportunity to reflect on how the Internet is a product of the work of collaborating communities, which means there is no central control. Open standards and collaboration, rather than top-down or centralized governance, have ensured that the Internet's development remains in the hands of those who know most what they need...
...person knocked down a peg is a great American pastime. (Jobs declines to talk about the options issue.) But there's no point in pretending that Jobs isn't special. A college dropout, whose biological parents gave him up for adoption, Jobs has presided over four major game-changing product launches: the Apple II, the Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone; five if you count the release of Pixar's Toy Story, which I'm inclined to. He's like Willy Wonka and Harry Potter rolled up into...
...service partner, Cingular, and he got it. He even forced Cingular to re-engineer its infrastructure to handle the iPhone's unique voicemail scheme. "They broke all their typical process rules to make it happen," says Tony Fadell, who heads Apple's iPod division. "They were infected by this product, and they were like, we've gotta do this...