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...partially exposed to the elements, so many pedicabs come equipped with a blanket for cold, rainy nights. Rickshaw rides aren't cheap, though. In London, where most pedicab drivers ply their trade among the winding streets of the West End theater and entertainment district, a trip for two from Waterloo Bridge to Soho will run you about $20. In Paris, where rickshaws also go by the name pousse-pousse, a 40-minute ride around the city's main landmarks is $80 for adults and $40 for kids...
That's exactly what the employees at iAnywhere Solutions, a unit of Sybase headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, are trying to figure out. About 18 months ago the company, which makes software for handheld devices, plunged headlong into the wireless world by turning its entire campus into a giant wi-fi hot spot. Employees--mostly in marketing and product development--with wi-fi--enabled laptops (about half the 250 full-time staff at headquarters) can access the Web at lightning speed from anywhere in the building, no wires necessary...
...like they used to be. All that wiring has been shaping the way offices look--in some buildings, for example, walls are built not to support the structure but to carry cabling. Next year iAnywhere will move into a brand-new space on the campus of the University of Waterloo that has been conceived with wi-fi in mind. Patrick Simmons, a partner in the firm designing the building, RHL Architects, says wi-fi removes constraints that have become second nature to architects. "You were kind of tethered to the system," Simmons says. "[With wi-fi], you don't have...
Nothing but a battle lost, said Wellington of Waterloo, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. And so it is as the war in Iraq turns into a fight for peace and a nation's soul. The conflict may be over, but the combat hasn't stopped. Markets are open, but the lights are still out, and there are shortages of everything but flies. Iraqis are free to march through the streets demanding that U.S. troops pull out, and to walk up to Marines and ask why there aren't more of them to help keep the peace...
...year. "The new material is far more robust than normal glass-based solar cells," says Dan Davies, an engineer at Solar Century, a London-based renewable energy company, "and it could also lead to a new flexibility in building design or be incorporated into consumer electronics." The University of Waterloo in Canada is anxious to use Spheral solar cells in its new School of Architecture building. "The beauty of this material is that we can use it on curved surfaces, but we can also swag it like a textile to provide shading and cut out glare on windows," says Rick...