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...there are over 200 million broadband subscriptions in the world, growing to over 400 million by 2010, according to market research firm In-Stat. And Informa Telecoms & Media says there are over 2 billion mobile-phone subscribers, growing to 3 billion by 2008, many of whom will have high-speed service. Each of those are candidates to haul their home TVs around on their laptop and phone screens without having to buy pricey video packages from mobile-phone carriers. Still, detractors question whether there is much of a demand for the Slingbox beyond sports nuts. "The Slingbox will spread...
...Easy Rider The foldable IKOO electric scooter is ideal for nipping around the neighborhood. A 4- to 6-hour charge will take you on an emissions-free journey of 18 miles at a top speed of 18 miles per hour. Available for $999 from ikoo.us...
...tense moment arrived. In the B-52, Pilot Charles C. Bock checked his air speed (450 knots), asked Scott Crossfield on the intercom if he was set. The reply: "I'm ready when you are, buddy." Bock went through a five-second countdown, then punched a red button on his control panel. With a metallic click a locking device opened, and the X-15 dropped silently on a long, fast, powerless glide toward the desert floor...
...goofed, it would have looked kind of sour.") Testing his controls with a wide, lazy-S turn, Crossfield, following procedure, jettisoned the X-15's ventral tailfin, which would have interfered with extending his tail landing skids. He zeroed in on the lake bed, cutting his air speed from 285 m.p.h. to 185 with three nose-up "porpoising" maneuvers. The X-15 touched effortlessly onto the lake bed, slid 4,600 ft. to a dust-raising stop. Said Test Pilot Crossfield, father of five: "I hope all my landings are as nice as that...
...song, “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” by Hall and Oates. Immediately, I realize the error of my ways. I cannot buy skinny jeans. It’s wrong, I am not addicted to heroin or speed. I am not Tina Turner. I am not on “thirtysomething.“ Skinny jeans are an anachronism I do not deserve and would not do justice. I put the jeans down sadly, full of the knowledge that I can never have the thighs or the white mod sunglasses...