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It's all About Style. Apple's New Line of Fashionable Laptops
Apple's line of laptops aimed at consumers took a leap forward this week when the company released its new MacBook model. Intended to replace the slower iBook laptops, the new MacBooks have either a 1.8-gigahertz…
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BMW Targets New Drivers
It's hard to believe, but after all these years there are still a great many consumers, specifically luxury-car buyers, who associate BMW with the yuppie phenomenon of the 1980s. That's what BMW Vice-President…
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Super Powered Cable
The technology of delivering electric power through cables has hardly changed over the years. Almost invariably, the cables are made of copper, making them thick and prone to power loss due to resistance.…
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TALKING PAPER
A "talking print" featuring the voice of a kabuki actor (Toppan Forms Co.)
Electronic paper and other paper with innovative functions is now coming into use. Postcards that can talk have gone on sale,…
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Aerial Billboards. How effective will they be?
Given that US airlines are currently seeking additional revenue from nearly any source imaginable, perhaps it was inevitable that soon six commercial airliners operated by Allegiant Air will be wrapped…
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Let the car do the driving
Spotting an opening in traffic, my Mercedes-Benz surges forward, then settles in at a 60-mph cruise. When we hit a patch of cars, the S-Class sedan eases off the gas, slowing to 20 mph, and finally brakes…
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Da Vinci Code Promo Breaks New Marketing Ground for Google
Google has teamed with Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures to create a puzzle-themed 24-day contest for the studio's upcoming "Da Vinci Code" film. The program, which lets people opt-in to…
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Clever Green Machine
British engineers have designed a micro-car that could beat the traffic blues and help save the planet, writes Steven Morris.
FROM the much-mocked C5 to the maligned Reliant, the three-wheeled car has…
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Drive-Ins make a comeback
Drive-in theaters, those beloved pop culture icons of yesteryear were nearly extinct, but are now making something of a comeback.
Last weekend workers scrambled to ready the new showboat drive-in theater…
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One way to avoid traffic
A man who said he bought a device that allowed him to change stop lights from red to green received a $50 ticket for suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.
Jason Niccum of Longmont, Colorado,…
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Are social networking sites the next vehicle for advertisers?
MySpace, Facebook and other social-networking sites are all the rage, but they're having to hustle to get advertisers on board.
These sites, which let users create home pages, blog and message friends…
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Are tall non-fat frappacinos the new Big Mac?
Think there's already a Starbucks on every corner? Just wait. The fast-growing chain plans to nearly triple in size and some see it growing even bigger, one day topping hamburger giant McDonald's Corp.…
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Web searching using voice recognition. Ask Google?
Google may be working towards providing a method for users to make searches on the Web simply by speaking commands, according to a recent patent filing. Although filed in February 2001, the voice search…
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The allure of big city vacations
"It becomes, at least for some people, a kind of pilgrimage in the sense that you want to finally see the Statue of Liberty and it's in New York and you have to go to New York to see it, " said Witold…
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Angelic Couture
White is the New Black
White garments currently abound at boutiques and women’s apparel departments. The color caught on after it featured prominently in the 2006 spring and fall collections of famous designers. White blouses…
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Video games get very, very naughty
Online games have so far mainly revolved around the killing of fantasy monsters. The occasional fight with a Stormtrooper provides some variety. Companies are now developing a handful of games -- though…
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A Burning Need for More Porn
If you could buy a porn video, download it in about an hour and burn it to a DVD that will play in any standard drive, would you do it? What if it had built-in digital rights management (DRM) code that…
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Housefly Gets Glasses Made With Lasers
Pampering pets with designer goods isn't so unusual—and now even your houseflies can get outfitted in style.
An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of…
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Hip-Hop Goes Commercial
It all began with Run-D.M.C. In 1986, the Queens-bred kings of rap bumrushed Madison Square Garden with their sold-out "Raising Hell" tour. Russell Simmons had urged the group to record a song extolling…
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Intergalactic Getaways
$20 Million Vacations on the International Space Station
Former Microsoft programmer Dr Charles Simonyi has signed up for a holiday on the International Space Station.
The 51 year-old programmer, who was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft's Word and…
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