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...facial recognition to stay locked on your mug, even as you move side to side or up and down. It doesn't always get things right--busy backgrounds can confuse the Orbit, and it may stop following you if it spies something of greater interest. (Hint: Keep any giant Tiki-god statues out of sight.) While videoconferencing or taking pictures, you may find it more practical to manually override the facial recognition and steer the Orbit to the best viewing position. But when the meeting is over, the hyperactive camera is an unexpectedly amusing...
...technology to create what nature had by the Triassic period: a free-range dinosaur. Built by Walt Disney Imagineering, this friendly fellow goes by the name Lucky. He's 9 ft. tall, and unlike his animatronic ancestors (which date to the singing birds and flowers in Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room that opened in 1963), Lucky wanders on his own, untethered by any wires and cables. He can laugh, sneeze, smile, yell and sign autographs, and once in a while, he gets the hiccups. What's his secret? His brain resides not in that cute little head...
...Great Wolf Lodge in suburban Kansas City, Kans. (off I-70 and I-435), and the 1-acre Splash Lagoon in Erie, Pa. (off I-90). Great Wolf has an Aveda spa and camping-themed restaurant. Splash Lagoon's water attractions include the Black Hole tube slide and the Tiki tipping bucket. --By Betsy Rubiner
...would have been classified as clinically insane if you predicted that Tommy Maddox would be starting in the playoffs while Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady watched on TV. And forget about the odds of only one of the league's top-10 rushers (the Giants' Tiki Barber) advancing to the postseason...
DIED. THOR HEYERDAHL, 87, unorthodox Norwegian adventurer-anthropologist who in 1947 sailed the Kon-Tiki, a tiny balsa raft, from Peru to an island near Tahiti in an attempt to prove his unorthodox theory that the Polynesian Islands could have been settled by prehistoric Peruvians, not by Southeast Asians; of brain cancer; on the Italian Riviera. The so-called Kon-Tiki man did not sway scholars, who dismissed him as an amateur, but his 4,300-mile, 101-day journey across the Pacific riveted the public, spawning his internationally best-selling memoir, Kon-Tiki, and an Oscar-winning documentary...