Word: celling
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...versions of the Palm Pilot increased as rapidly as scores on a pinball machine, and ever more advanced handheld gadgets debuted at a dizzying speed. As the year progressed, those who didn't crave or couldn't indulge a moment's isolation began connecting to the Internet through cell phones or to instant-messaging systems via the BlackBerry two-way pager...
...though scientists are formulating theories. One is that when a gene sets out to make proteins it can splice itself together in alternative ways; another is that some genes in man are left running longer than they are in a mouse--so that our bodies grow bigger, our brain cells more numerous and so on. "It's not as if a new kind of brain cell were invented 150 million years ago [when mice and men diverged]," says Robert Weinberg, a professor at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. "The arguments will be settled only 10 or 20 years from...
...Santa in December, the nation's retailers are very hungry. Their customers, faced with a slumping stock market, rising energy prices and a crushing debt load, aren't the free spenders who fueled booming holiday seasons past. Psyched out, tapped out and even shopped out--How many cell phones and cashmere scarves do you really need?--they are making this holiday, as a Los Angeles boutique owner puts it, "ho ho hum." "Some CEOs haven't seen it this bad since 1990-91," says Peter Schaeffer, a partner at Ernst & Young...
...able to sense tremors and other signs of stress in a prevaricator's voice. The Handy Truster comes in several colors, and its South Korean manufacturer, 911 Computer, insists that it's just for fun. (The pitch: "Enjoy the truth game with your colleagues!") It also works via cell phone for remote or uncooperative subjects. Don't hang up the lasso just yet, though. Handy Truster promises to catch only 8 lies...
CAMERA READY Add the digital camera to the list of devices, such as cell phones and personal digital assistants, that moonlight as MP3 players. Samsung's new Digimax 35 ($200) takes digital still photos, plays MP3s stored on a CompactFlash memory card and works as a Web camera. The resolution is passable, but the 8-MB memory card that comes with the unit is barely enough to hold one or two songs. Also, there's no LCD screen for previewing pictures. Maybe this multitasking camera is spreading itself a little too thin...