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Style meets technology with Zegna Sport's new iJacket, below, a double-layered, waterproof shell with an inside pocket that accommodates an iPod. For easy use, the iPod is connected to a clear panel near the outside left cuff of the jacket that the wearer uses to control the iPod's functions without having to open the jacket or the inside pocket. The iJacket can be washed like a normal jacket, without any extra care...
...elderly often land in the hospital because they've forgotten to take medication. Microsoft and Intel are developing a wristwatch that prompts the wearer to take his pills. The doctor types into his computer instructions on when medication should be taken, and the information is transmitted to the patient's computer, which downloads it to the watch. Around the appointed hour, when the senior is near the location where the pills are stored, a sensor tracking the senior's movements alerts the watch, which signals that it's medicine time. The watch, which should be available in two years...
...environmentally conscious few, Friday is not just the start of the weekend; it is free-trade Friday—that special day of the week when organic bananas are available in Harvard dining halls. Branded with an “organic” label, such bananas reassure the Birkenstock wearer that he has hugged his equivalent of a tree that day. Pressed for specifics on the banana’s virtues, said eater will give some mealy-mouthed response (maybe it’s the taste?). Despite the apparent frivolity of organic food, however, there are concrete health and environmental...
...Afghanistan.) I come from a Muslim family and have spent years living in various Muslim communities around the Middle East. Every single Muslim female friend I've had, from pious to secular, veiled to vixen, has been unable to befriend, or even hold a proper conversation with a niqab-wearer. The young son of a close friend, raised in a large Muslim family in a large Muslim country, calls them "ninja ladies." Covering the face, whether in Yorkshire or Beirut, seems to send a universal message of separateness. If the full-face veil is considered creepy by many Muslim women...
...diverse society, they are probably expected to just deal with it. Schoolchildren are a different matter altogether. They may not be briefed on the roots of such Islamic mores, but they'll still wonder why they can't see their teacher's face. I wouldn't want a niqab-wearer as a role model for my child, and I wouldn't want to explain that his teacher considers her bare face somehow immoral. It is ironic that living in an Islamic theocracy, this is something I would never have to do, while non-Muslim British parents are being asked...