Word: wireless
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...aside the better part of the morning to set up Logitech's Wireless DJ Music System. There's a USB transmitter that plugs into the PC, a remote control with 100-meter range, and a charging station that you connect to a sound system or boombox. With three distinct, potentially tricky components, I was prepared for a slow trudge towards harmonious functionality. Instead, I was grooving to my tunes...
...tunes, I mean songs I bought on iTunes. That's right, in addition to unprotected MP3s, the Logitech Wireless DJ lets you stream purchased tracks that were carefully locked down by the good folks at Apple (plus those secured in Microsoft's competing rights-managed formats). It's a can't-beat-'em-join-'em strategy: The practically invisible Logitech StreamPoint simply tells the iTunes and Windows Media Player software what songs to play. When the music starts, the software streams it wirelessly through the USB transmitter to the receiver waiting at your sound system...
...Many wireless music systems have walked in and out of my life, but with Logitech's simple setup and compatibility with all of my Internet music purchases, I was really loving it. The clincher is the wireless remote, which displays all of the artists, albums and songs alphabetically on a clear and spacious screen. There's a wheel for scrolling through names, and a special button for adding tracks to an on-the-fly playlist. Admittedly, the design isn't brand-new - Creative had a primitive version of this years ago, and Sonos has a more advanced...
...Lollapalooza for freethinking colleges that are looking for liberated students. Last year more than 600 people attended each of the sessions in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Washington. In a crowded Manhattan hotel ballroom, Maria Furtado, director of admissions at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., grabs the wireless microphone in front of a crowd of more than 500 parents, students and college counselors and happily shatters conventional wisdom. "Every spring and every fall, this is what you will see and hear in the media: 'No one gets in anywhere,'" she says. "Gloom and doom. Well, we're here to tell...
...control the vehicle via a small handheld device connected to the engine by cable. If you find the dangling wire ungainly, then Exkate, (www.exkate.com), another Californian company, offers wireless control options for its collection of powerboards. These run the gamut from a $250 kid's model (with a top speed of 12 km/h) to the $1,000 top-of-the-line X-24 (with a range of 20 km, a top speed of nearly 32 km/h and cruise control). Nipping to the shops will be more fun - and faster - than you've ever imagined...