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...dark figures, tattered and beaten, crawl across the screen. Fighting the unforgiving desert sun, they fortuitously stumble upon a decades-old downed plane. Cut to the next scene: we find the heroes of Sahara windsurfing amidst the desolate landscape using the plane’s right wing as a makeshift sail, as good ole American rock blares in the background. And that’s when it hits you: you have no idea what’s going on, or even what movie you’re watching anymore...
...bender is captured for the first time in a funky yo-yo size sphere that comes in four bright colors—golden yellow, ocean blue, dark purple, and red. “Are you an animal, vegetable mineral, or unknown?” questions the two-inch LCD screen, daring all cynics to try their hands at beating the game. The glowing orb then asks 19 more questions, letting the user choose between possible answers yes, no, sometimes, and unknown...
...policy, one with potentially powerful ramifications: when people pay attention to questions of technology policy, they don’t do so by virtue of morals, or even idle curiosity. They do so because they are surprised to find that the rules that govern the world behind their computer screen simply don’t conform to their basic intuitions about governance and ethics...
Craving more than monochrome? The display's the thing on Toshiba's Gigabeat MEG F20--a gorgeous, 2.2-in. color screen that can crisply handle JPEG images, slick menu icons and even animated graphics that pulsate in synch with your music. Unlike the Sony and Apple players, which are closely bound to the companies' Sony Connect and iTunes Music Store, the Gigabeat can download songs from most music sites, and there's a forthcoming $449 version with an enormous 60 GB of memory...
Another iPod mini challenger is the Zen Micro, made by Singapore-based Creative Technology. Like the H10, the Zen Micro sports an FM radio and audio/voice recording. The unit has a solid feel, a sharp, white-backlit screen and an easy-to-understand menu rivaling Apple's famously user-friendly interface. At $250, the 6-GB version costs the same as a 6-GB iPod mini; it's also smaller, plays tunes in the Windows Media Audio format as well as MP3, and when you throw in the radio and recording features, it might be a better deal...