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TOKYO The Japanese women who collect Tod's Wave Nuovo Allacciato ($396) appreciate the feminine style of this sneaker, which is perfect for dashing around the city...
...your tub, smart-home technology is giving the homeowner a level of automation futuristic enough to make George Jetson envious. Technology research firm InStat/MDR predicts the global market will grow from its current level of $1.3 billion to nearly $10 billion by 2010. A recent study by the Z-Wave Alliance found 72% of Americans say they would like the ability to monitor their home when they are gone. Nearly 34% of builders offered automation capability in 2005, according to the National Association of Home Builders. But the real breakthrough is the widespread availability of new wireless devices that...
...week that it also plans to ban the sale of most incandescent bulbs by 2012. Cuba and Venezuela are distributing millions of free CFLs (with Fidel Castro sending out youth brigades to actually swap the new bulbs for the old). Even Wal-Mart is trying to ride the CFL wave, having recently committed to selling 100 million CFLs this year...
...timing couldn't be better, as air travel is approaching pre-9/11 levels. Moreover, U.S. financial houses are rapidly expanding in London, and the merger wave is in full bloom in Europe. "I'm surprised that EOS and MAXjet are still with us," says Andrew Lobbenberg, a transport analyst at ABN AMRO, "but they've gotten lucky because of the transatlantic cycle. Business travel is booming right...
Maxïmo Park are a study in modern musical identity crisis. Critics adored the Newcastle, England quintet’s 2005 debut, but there was confusion: was this new wave or post pop? Was Maxïmo closer to Franzia or the Futureheads? The band posed aggressively in publicity photos but oozed modesty in interviews. Ultimately, their pop punk fell between the established polarities for an acceptable post-millennium 80s throwback British band. Now they’re back, and the video for “Our Velocity,” the single from upcoming...