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...advances the past few years have seen in technology, consumer electronics has no excuse for being boring. The good folks at Lexon, as well nearly the entire population of Japan, have long understood this. The hourglass-shaped Diablo radio, designed by Elise Berthier, has no switches. You swivel the top half to turn on the power and increase the volume. You swivel the bottom half to find your favored station. It's simple and satisfying. And if the news is bad, you can always look to the radio to give you a smile...
...advances the past few years have seen in technology, consumer electronics have no excuse for being boring. The good folks at Lexon, as well nearly the entire population of Japan, have long understood this. The hourglass-shaped Diablo radio, designed by Elise Berthier, has no switches. You swivel the top half to turn on the power and increase the volume. You swivel the bottom half to find your favored station. It's simple and satisfying. And if the news is bad, you can always look to the radio to give you a smile...
MYST WATCH If you lost sleep over Myst, the best-selling computer game of all time, put on some coffee: 500,000 copies of Myst 3: Exile ($45, for Windows and Mac) just hit stores. Exile has the same lush fantasy graphics as Myst, but now you can swivel your point of view a full 360 degrees to admire them. What's more, this time the puzzles are easier--not that you shouldn't still clear your calendar...
Behind the outsize leather seats for driver and companion is a small salon with a couch, a pair of swivel armchairs and a coffee table. Next come the kitchen and dinette, equipped with a table for two, standard-size sink and dishwasher, a 21-cu.-ft. refrigerator/freezer, including icemaker, and a clothes washer and a dryer. The bathroom has a toilet, two sinks and a full-size shower with brass fixtures. The bedroom, with a queen-size bed, has a second TV set, and a satellite dish on the roof keeps the bus linked to dozens of stations even while...
...This time it's two good guys (Yen and Yu Rong-guang) against one preternatural baddie (Yam Sai-goon). The heroes try to keep their equilibrium while dodging flame darts from Yam; they use burning sticks as swords; they balance one pole on another, like a teeter-totter, and swivel on either end; Yu climbs up to stand on Yen's shoulders; finally they pole-vault to safety as Yam falls below to be impaled and roasted. (Rule No. 1: at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire.) Piling impossible climax on incredible...