Word: celle
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...desks, white noise generator and ample overhead lighting. The naturalist would receive a room with inclined walls and rock climbing grips, while the slacker would get a room full of last year's garbage. And, lastly and leastly, the aspiring investment banker, after putting down the cell phone for a much-overdue battery charge, will get additional practice at corporate life in a large common room complete with potted plants, conference phone, marble table and swivel chair. Modern Houses at last...
...Lawrence P. Largley, a 17-year-old Cambridge resident, dies of unknown causes in a jail cell just hours after he is arrested and allegedly beaten by police. Three days of rioting in the Roosevelt district of Cambridge follow...
...supermarket. Every Nokia phone sold today comes with four or five games built in. This summer Ericsson will offer phones with mini versions of Tetris and Solitaire. And at an annual gaming convention two weeks ago in Los Angeles, Nokia announced a developers' program that will bring to cell phones everything from chess to quiz games to action-adventures by next year. Don Mattrick, president of worldwide development for gamemaker Electronic Arts, believes such games on the run could account for as much as 10% of the company's revenue...
There's plenty more to come. Next year cell-phone service providers will begin offering an array of games you can play over their networks. Users will pay for them just as they do for a regular cell-phone call. In return, they'll get such options as playing poker with a friend in Fresno or entering the lottery on the fly. Nokia has even shown a text-based detective game. Rather than clicking on a picture as you would in Myst, say, you read a bit of the storyline, then choose what to do next from a list...
...just hope the games don't make using a cell phone any more expensive than it already is. With rates averaging $50 a month, it's hard to justify spending any more for unlimited games of Snake. Then again, I just might be persuaded by a multiuser version of Tetris...