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...storied history in the wired world. Take singing fish, digital guard dogs and belly-dancing robots. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, second-tier techno-marketers are proudly carrying on the tradition, hawking wacky wares that beg the question: do we really need this stuff? Last year, an iPod-Dock/Toilet-Paper Dispenser stunned the crowd. Once gadgeteers had explored the kitchen, living room and bedroom, they rushed to the final frontier: your bathroom. Among the thousands of objects cluttering booths throughout Las Vegas's CES convention halls this time around, here are some of the oddest...
...Cell phones do all kinds of stuff-calling, text messaging, Web browsing, contact management, music playback, photos and video-but they do it very badly, by forcing you to press lots of tiny buttons, navigate diverse heterogeneous interfaces and squint at a tiny screen. "Everybody hates their phone," Jobs says, "and that's not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there." To Jobs's perfectionist eyes, phones are broken. Jobs likes things that are broken. It means he can make something that isn't and sell it to you for a premium price...
...Alford, an Allston resident who said he has attended every task force meeting since April, said he wants Harvard to be successful but is worried about how quickly the plans for the science complex are progressing. “It’s the big print that gives us stuff, and it’s the little print that take it away,” he said. “I think it’s important that we be very careful to watch...
...their company, Reversible, decided to morph the everlasting stuff into a hip line of handbags and totes. Together with a small team of artisan workers in Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyons, they scissor out the best graphics to produce one-of-a-kind carry-alls. But more than just an original fashion accessory, Imberton sees them as a "modest" initiative to develop an environmentally responsible solution. Only a tiny fraction of billboards in France are recycled. Removed from their supports, some end up on farms, tossed over woodpiles or machinery. Others are burned, which, if not done properly, releases dioxins...
...largest distributors in the Middle East, decided to buy the rights to distribute Borat, half his staff thought he was crazy. "And not for reasons you might expect," he said from his office above the company theaters in a Beirut shopping mall. "Not because of all the Jewish stuff...