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...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...
...natural-gas processing complex helped determine how the sprayers should organize their visits. Teams of Equatoguineans collect and test mosquitoes from traps in various homes to see where adjustments need to be made. Information about family health, mosquito numbers and geopositional locations is recorded on the spot with handheld wireless devices and transmitted to a centralized location...
...might see how a system like this can bring peace of mind. It does, however, bring it at a cost. Before you sign on, you need to have a broadband connection to your home and a home-network router, preferably a wireless one. The lowest-priced starter kit is $400, and once you get it going, you will realize quickly that you will want to augment that with additional devices. Extra door/window sensors cost $35 a piece, and extra lamp controllers cost $50. There's also a monthly fee of $15. Although you can pay upfront for a whole year...
...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...