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...m505 also features something new--at least for Palm: expansion cards that fit into a tiny slot. You can add memory, storage or prepackaged programs such as travel guides. Palm hopes to compete against Handspring by offering clip-on gadgets like cameras and phones. But come on, Palmies! Do I need another incompatible storage medium? I already have SmartDisks, CompactFlash disks, SanDisks and Memory Sticks coming out of my ears, not to mention floppies, CDs and DVDs. Now I'm supposed to embrace Secure Digital disks and MultimediaCards? I think...
...Economy comes in a variety of offerings, and this is the ultimate in high-tech self-serve. Manufactured by Sanyo Electric, this fully automated mini-convenience store is part of a new generation of vending machines popping up in a country that's long been obsessed with coin-slot culture. Sanyo's Auto Shop Vendor isn't just bigger than the Coke-and-coffee machines of the past; advanced mechanical engineering allows it to handle what was until recently an unthinkable variety of necessities and impulse purchases. "This is four vending machines in one," exults Sanyo deputy general manager Misao...
...When I was a child the blade slot fascinated me. Children have a highly developed sense of metaphysics. The slot seemed a tear in time, as if the blade that had just shaved my father, nicking his jawline, had for punishment been exiled to another dimension. That bourne from which no traveler returns. The wafer-thin blue blade was condemned to slide out of this world and to turn slowly in the black space that began on the far side of the inside of the mirror...
...such a slot yesterday, unused for years, I suppose. I am not nostalgic for the deadly old blades, which you screwed down into what was called a "safety razor" - an instrument that might leave the face dappled with bloodied toilet paper wads. The blades now rusting in the depository drew more blood in their time than the guillotine. For years, since the perfection of miraculous little whisker-reapers that come in cartridges, I have shaved blind, with impunity, without a mirror. I haven't cut myself since the Carter administration...
...sight of the blade slot made me think - if you will excuse these featherweight reflections - about the old rituals. Long ago, when men wore hats, shaving was a far more serious and ceremonial business than it is now. I keep to some of the old forms. I use a shaving brush, for example...