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...system installed in a large Ford pickup truck looked more like a family-vacation outfit than a security tool. Each of four passengers had a color video screen and easy access to a small box with knobs and a joystick. Only this wasn't a game: it was part of a remotely operated weapons system. The screens display views from cameras atop the truck with a range, clarity and thermal-imaging capacity that permit operators to see what the human eye cannot. The joystick allows a gunner to aim the cameras and fire a machine gun, also mounted...
...horizon could disrupt LCD's emergence just as easily as LCD has begun to supplant cathode-ray tubes. And even against existing technologies, Sharp faces a formidable battle. Junzo Masuda, director of iSuppli, a market-research firm in Kyoto, says the real test is how Sharp's big-screen TVs ultimately fare against a technology called plasma display panel (PDP), currently the dominant type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether it can reduce costs enough to defeat the makers of PDP sets, which are significantly cheaper. "There is a real price...
...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder "Albert Einstein - Chief Engineer of the Universe," runs in Berlin's Kronprinzenpalais (Crown Prince's Palace), now a museum. "Chief Engineer" is an interactive exhibition that uses films and touch-screen PCs to help visitors learn about Einstein's theories. tel: (49-30) 22 667 344; www.einsteinausstellung.de The scientist did not want his final residence at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to become a memorial, and the house is now privately owned. But his former flat in Bern, Switzerland...
WHAT YOU GET As the first luxury hybrid SUV, the $48,535 400h comes equipped with creature comforts like a navigation system, rain-sensing wipers, aluminum alloy wheels and a screen that lets you see what's behind you simply by looking at a dashboard monitor. (A camera mounted just above the rear bumper provides the video stream.) We found the navigation system to be slow and confusing but loved extra-cost options like the heated front seats ($540) and the rear-seat DVD system with wireless headphones...
Fences never did get made into a movie (though Wilson has written a new script, and producer Scott Rudin is trying to bring it to the screen). But that kind of principled pigheadedness seems perfectly in character for a man who has spent two decades of his creative life on a single mission: a cycle of 10 linked plays, each representing one decade in the black experience in 20th century America. The plays have received wide critical acclaim, Broadway runs, two Pulitzer Prizes (for Fences and The Piano Lesson) and upwards of 2,000 productions in regional theaters across...