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...COVER: TECH REVOLUTION...
Meet the brave new tech influentials, from outsourcing impresarios to embryo cloners...
...TECH: A stereo that learns its owner's taste; Laverne & Shirley...
...coach on her own. Such stories puzzle Andrew Krieger, a U.S.-based financial executive, who believes India isn't living up to its potential. He wants to help change that. Krieger, who studied Hindu philosophy, is pouring $120 million into a planned sports facility in the Indian tech hub of Hyderabad, where international coaches will groom future champions in all sports. It will be a replica of IMG Academies, a coaching center in Bradenton, Fla., that has produced the likes of tennis champ Maria Sharapova. India "is a land of entrepreneurs," says Krieger, "and sports is the greatest entrepreneurial system...
Iris and fingerprint scanning, onetime biometric techniques of the future, may soon be things of the past. The newest trend in high-tech identification scans the veins in your hand. Scientists noticed that vein patterns in the fingers and palm stay in the same place from birth, and the arrangement of veins in each person is unique. By shining a light at the hand or finger and then capturing an infrared digital image, devices developed by Fujitsu, Hitachi and other Japanese firms can ID people in an instant. The first systems will soon appear in Japanese banks to verify...