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What's the 21st century's pet rock? A jumbo Tamagotchi pet? Nah. French tech company Violet (www.violet.net) has created Nabaztag, a plastic, 23-cm-tall (with ears up) white rabbit with a constant wi-fi connection. The device provides access to other Internet users and vital daily information like traffic reports and the weather. Programmed by its owner, Nabaztag (rabbit in Armenian) relays the information in a slightly cartoonish female voice, and flashes colored lights on her tummy when new e-mails arrive. The wi-fi rabbit, which also plays MP3s and MIDI files and dances a jig, flags...
...pension fund is worried enough to have begun unloading some of its real estate holdings. Phyllis Rockower, who started the Real Estate Investor's Club of Los Angeles in 1996, is worried too. Membership in her club has soared. "Most people who come to my meetings sold their high-tech stocks after 2000," she says. "We had to move to a bigger room. It's either a sign of the times or a market top." What's her bet? Rockower has six houses on the market--nearly every investment property she owns...
...Australians inserted a patrol undetected to monitor the escape route. From more than 1200 meters away, high on a mountain, the patrol spotted a group of al-Qaeda figures dressed in Russian camouflage and wearing black balaclavas. They carried high-tech weapons, and appeared to be guarding a white-robed older man with a cane as they fled the battlefield...
...months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion people who will be buying a phone - need a phone - over the next five to 10 years," says Allen Burnes, Motorola vice president of high-growth markets. "This is the huge growth opportunity." High-tech companies are pushing into previously unexplored markets because most people who can easily afford computers and cell phones already own them. "The biggest problem facing global companies is the capacity for organic growth," he says. "At the same time, there are 4 billion people in the world saying, 'We would like...
Given this remarkable mix of acceptance and skepticism, it's not so surprising, then, that Henry Bauer, the editor of S.S.E.'s journal and a dean emeritus at Virginia Tech, wrote the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky, whose best-selling books in the 1950s argued that Old Testament miracles were triggered by close encounters with Venus. But it's also not surprising that that same Henry Bauer has published papers arguing that scientists have ignored powerful evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is real...