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...extra-fat memory. But it will allow you to send e-mails, surf the Net, work on a few documents and do some undemanding graphic chores while you're between hotel rooms - which is all most business travelers want from their laptop. It's also equipped with an internal wireless LAN module, letting you check your messages or log on wherever there is a hot spot instead of having to plug into a phone or data line...
Smart dust, actually. That's the name for the wireless networks of sensors, called motes, that Pister, 39, is building. Each mote has a chip about the size of a grain of rice that detects and records things like temperature and motion at its location. Attach it to a battery the size of an aspirin, and a mote will keep doing this for longer than a year; add a power source the size of a bottle cap, and your mote is good for a decade. Most important, the motes have minuscule radio transmitters that talk to other motes...
...glass elevator glides from pristine courtyards to a fifth-floor penthouse, where there's a sleek lounge with leather sofas and a 50-in. plasma TV. Botway's 250sq.ft. corner room has floor-to-ceiling picture windows that offer a panoramic view of the city skyline and a wireless Internet connection that, among other uses, lets her know when her laundry is done. Says the freshman, 18, from East Setauket, N.Y.: "I was, like, 'Wow, this is so cool...
...anytime soon. O2 flipped on its 3-G switch now because Irish regulators require it do so by the end of the year. After all the phone talk, an O2 spokesman said the first significant commercial use of 3-G will be as an add-in card that provides wireless Internet to laptops. That had a familiar ring: a week earlier, Vodafone said it is to offer 3-G for laptops in Germany and Italy . But wait - wasn't 3-G all about leaving the computer at home? Isn't that why companies spent €100 billion on licenses? Apparently...
...said wired access still has some advantages over wireless, like the faster speed of the connection...