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Kajeet, the Bethesda, Md., start-up that provided Rachel with her Nokia 6165i, has developed its new service in large part with input from kids like her. "We think kids are smart," said Kajeet's co-founder and CEO Daniel Neal. "Our entire philosophy springs from this one core idea. We want our kids to be agile with technology, and we want to help them respond with confidence to what's happening in their world." But it will have to sell the idea that kids can handle it to the real potential buyers: their skeptical parents (and grandparents...
...house of the future with sleek lines and magically appearing appliances capable of performing the most onerous of household tasks with just the simple touch of a button or a voice command. And while there still may not be a way to get out of actually scrubbing your tub, smart-home technology is giving the homeowner a level of automation futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study by the Z-Wave Alliance found...
...while you'll still have to do the folding yourself, Whirlpool is testing a line of "smart" washers and dryers, which enable consumers to monitor the status of their rinse cycle remotely and control the washer or dryer by computer or cell phone. But presumably it still takes a human hand to separate the lights from the darks...
...recent sign of the turnaround is the changing fate of the DaimlerChrysler/Mercedes Smart car, which is a megahit in Europe, Australia, Asia and Canada because it gets up to 69 m.p.g. (diesel) and is so small that two can fit into a parking space but which Mercedes delayed bringing to the U.S. for fear of tarnishing its identity as a status brand. Now the company is scrambling to get it to the States as quickly as possible...
...first started asking as a doctoral student at Harvard, where she won the University’s Toppan Prize for her political science dissertation that she completed in 1997.Isabela Mares met Gay at graduate school and has known her for 15 years. “She was so smart,” says Mares, now associate professor of political science at Columbia University. “She finished amazingly fast. She was the best student in our year.” After six years teaching at Stanford, Gay has returned to Harvard.Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis “Skip?...