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Last year, Eric Harris had thrown a chunk of ice at Brooks' car, cracking its windshield. Soon after, the Browns had discovered the spewings on Harris' website, geysers of hate like the one saying Harris longed to "blow up and shoot everything I can. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame...I don't care if I live or die in the shootout, all I want to do is kill and injure as many of you [expletive] as I can, especially a few people. Like Brooks Brown." Harris claimed to have the weaponry to carry out his threat against Brown...
...getting pretty thin lately. Now NXT has taken this anorexic trend about as far as it can go: to invisible. The company, based in London, has developed a way to make speakers so transparent that they can overlay any flat surface--PC monitor, TV screen, picture frame, even car windshield. A prototype covers a laptop with a vibrating sheet of clear plastic and produces a stereo sound that seems to come right out of the screen. No licensees yet, but with tech this cool, it's only a matter of time...
...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make...
...already framed your college acceptance letter, researched the laminating options for your diploma and garnished mummy's windshield with H&R decals. But for true portability and maximum display value, the class ring is the quintessential trophy. After all, "life is good, wrap it around your finger and take it everywhere you go!"--or so claims the ArtCarved jewelry company, purveyor of quality class rings...
...already framed your college acceptance letter, researched the laminating options for your diploma and garnished mummy's windshield with H&R decals. But for true portability and maximum display value, the class ring is the quintessential trophy. After all, "life is good, wrap it around your finger and take it everywhere you go!"--or so claims the ArtCarved jewelry company, purveyor of quality class rings...