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...want to upgrade the look and feel of your computer but don't want to shell out for the latest 10,000-googlehertz monster, why not invest in a new keyboard instead? Logitech's new Cordless Freedom Optical ($100, mouse included) is the ultimate in typing comfort. Its sleek design tilts the keys at an optimal angle, there's no cord to knock over your coffee cup, and it's loaded with shortcut keys and a scroll bar for efficient Web surfing...
That is why the nearly century-old American industrial icon has so much riding on the V-Rod, the sleek, radically new bike it will unveil at this year's gathering. Even though the company, based in Milwaukee, Wis., is firing on all cylinders, it could be headed for a nasty spill if it doesn't navigate this generational speed bump. Despite its powerful brand, Harley has failed to attract enough young riders, who prefer the speedy, more technically advanced machines from Asian powers like Honda and Yamaha and European rivals BMW and Ducati. While it still leads the pack...
...Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry...
Sharks are one of nature's ultimate designs, tested over 400 million years--confident, sleek and lethal (see graphic). Studies show some sharks can measure changes in electric currents as tiny as five-billionths of a volt. They use this ability to hunt for prey hidden under the sand and to navigate according to the earth's magnetic field. "They are like some high-tech AWACS thing, with all their sensors," says Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif. When they do attack a human, the weight of evidence now suggests, they...
Aaliyah tends to dress all in black--black dresses, black boots, black whatever. She will venture into other hues, but her fashions are almost always stylish and sleek. Let the Jessica Simpsons and Mandy Moores have the pastels and plaids. Says Aaliyah: "There's a dark side of me that comes out in everything I do." Even as she steps into the spotlight, she's got one leg in the shadows...