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...hottest gadget at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week was a familiar one: the trusty television. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to offer a new twist on the old tube. Alongside the traditional TV brands were entries from companies that have never made TVs before, including Yamaha, Daewoo, Epson and Gateway. Why are so many players moving into the TV business? Because more and more TV owners are ready for an upgrade. Most cable and satellite broadcasters offer some high-definition-TV (HDTV) programming, but you need an HDTV set if you want to watch. At the same...
...picks are designed to appeal to the professional woman, but they'd be just as much at home in the country club as in the boardroom. Bottega Veneta: The Italian house has adorned the arms of fashionable women since the 1970s. Go for a $1,500 hand-painted python tube designed by Tomas Maier. Snap-closure compartments give it a practical twist, with enough room for your mobile phone and PDA. Tod's: These tie-end bags, $1,200 apiece, are so soft they could have been made from taffy rather than leather. But they still look sophisticated enough...
...anywhere within about 30 m of the base station, which transmits a cable-TV or DVD signal using the same frequency spectrum as cordless phones and wi-fi. A rechargeable lithium battery that lasts four to six hours cuts the TV loose from electrical wires as well. The portable tube will be available worldwide by early 2004. - By Daniel Sieberg...
...most frightening plans involve his desire to employ unconventional weapons. His most prized possession, he says, is a cache of 82mm mortar rounds. Mohammed displays one of the rounds and proclaims, "This is a chemical mortar." Encased in a green storage tube with a flip-lock lid, the weapon has liquid sloshing inside a bulbous head reeking with a putrid odor that burns the nostrils. The Russian markings on the weapon identify it as a TD-42 liquid, high-explosive mortar. It's impossible to know what is really in the device or if the boasts...
...ever had a colonoscopy--that much dreaded procedure in which a physician inserts a lighted tube into your rectum and snakes it up your large intestine, looking for abnormal growths that could lead to colon cancer--it's easy to see the appeal of the so-called virtual colonoscopy. The procedure is far less invasive: a small device blows air into the rectum to inflate the bowel while a C.T. scanner takes X rays. Unfortunately, the results from early virtual colonoscopies did not measure up. In some studies, they missed half the polyps that needed to be caught...