Word: snappingly
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While the m100 is roughly twice as thick as my Vx and slightly longer, it has some decent cosmetic touches. Snap-on face plates, for instance, so you can color-coordinate it with your cell phone or shoes or whatever. And the flip-down plastic lid that protects the screen has a little porthole cut out so you can see the clock. This is not exactly revolutionary, but it's smart...
Take, for instance, the new voice portals. These are being billed as the equivalent of Web portals--those gateway, one-site-fits-all Web addresses like Yahoo, Excite and Snap. Instead of sitting at a computer and tapping websites that serve as hubs for news, weather and sports updates, with voice portals you can request info over the phone...
...brought with it one of the greatest successes in world economic history: the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. Led by Congress and fired by Harry Truman's conviction that a prosperous Europe would be a stable Europe, the plan pumped billions into the devastated Continent and produced a rapid snap-back. The lesson for the rest of the world seemed obvious: with enough money and vision, it was possible to build vibrant economies even on the ruins of a bombed-out Continent...
Also from Sony was a radical new addition to its Mavica line of digital cameras. The Mavica MVC-CD1000 ($1,300, available in August) comes with a built-in CD-ROM burner, so when you snap a picture, you don't have to download it to your PC. Instead, the camera writes the image straight to a disc. No fuss, no muss...
Scientists have long believed that constructing memories is like playing with neurological Tinkertoys. Exposed to a barrage of sensations from the outside world, we snap together brain cells to form new patterns of electrical connections that stand for images, smells, touches and sounds...