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SIGNAL TO NOISE Still wondering what information appliances are good for? Well, here's one that actually solves an everyday problem--Oreck's new vacuum cleaner with a built-in radio. Now you can rock out as you air your rug out without worrying that your Walkman will get tangled up with the vacuum's power cord. There's even a hook to hang your headphones on. Of course, you still have to haul the vacuum up and down stairs and push it around the floor. But hey, what do you expect for $499? The Oreck XL is available...
...alleged attacker was Michael Abram, 33, from the Liverpool suburb of Huyton. Nicknamed "Mad Mike" by neighborhood children, Abram was occasionally seen listening to a Walkman and serenading no one in particular from the balcony of his apartment. His mother told the Liverpool Echo that he had recently become obsessed with the Beatles but "hates them and even believes they are witches." He wore a Walkman, she said, "to stop voices in his head...
...Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century chosen by Guinness Book of Records: Rubik's Cube, the Walkman and Tupperware made the cut; computers didn...
...speech, starting with a five-minute intro from Stuart Little, the animated mouse who stars in Sony's forthcoming answer to "Toy Story." Idei also showed off a slew of new gadgets demonstrating Sony's new focus on "the power of hardware in a networked world," including the MS Walkman, a tiny portable device that plays digital music stored on Sony's 64-megabyte Memory Sticks (hence the MS), and a digital video version of the rewritable MiniDisc that lets you perform tricky cuts using the camera as an editing studio. MORE...
...walkers: Usually seen traveling in groups, these organisms like to occupy all of the space alloted by Cambridge's narrow paths. Passing a gaggle of these could be disastrous: an ill-timed swing of a one-pound weight or walkman could send you reeling either into the muddy banks of the Charles or in the middle of oncoming traffic. Instead, charge through the middle of the pack, paying no attention to their resulting bellows...