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Many of them have worked, including Electroshove, an assembly that can be snapped onto most conventional bicycles in a few seconds, converting them to electric models. Of his newer gadgets he seems most proud of Technalegs, a strap-on contraption with little, jointed, lockable, telescoping "intelligent canes" that can support as much as three-quarters of the weight of a hiker and his backpack. "You can carry your wife on your back all day without getting tired," he jokes...
...about an earlier American precedent? Is the OK Corral available? It might be satisfying to see if the teams of lawyers now assembled in $2,000 suits in courtrooms all over Florida would strap on hoglegs like Doc Holliday to back their boy in a dawn gunfight. The man who emerges from the smoke gets to kiss the girl and become president...
...strap one to your desk, and it's time for blast-off, right? Pretty much. The Cube is just as speedy as its larger G4 cousin. It's also shockingly silent, thanks to Apple's fan-free liquid cooling system--a technology that has clearly undergone some improvement since it was first used in the iMac last year. Back then, the casing got so hot you could fry an egg on it; the Cube is much better at keeping its cool...
...remember that when they find you dead in a spaghetti-strap dress...
...some point, the armada of devices we strap to our bodies like tools on Batman's belt will coalesce into a smaller number of multifunction devices. Equipped with radio links, a pda can serve as an appliance-control remote, a digital wallet, a cell phone, an identity badge, an e-mail station, a digital book, a pager and perhaps even a digital camera. There is sure to be a catchy name for this all-purpose Internet-enabled thingy, perhaps Wireless Internet Digital Gadget for Electronic Transactions, or WIDGET...