Word: cool
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...same obstacles faced by African Americans in the traditional corporate world. Only in this case, he faced a new-boy network, made up mostly of white, middle-class male computer engineers mixing comfortably with M.B.A.s--guys who often knew one another as undergraduates. "Back in 1997, it wasn't cool to be a black dotcom," says Patrick McElroy, president of Atlanta-based EverythingBlack.com a virtual meeting ground for more than 600 African American-owned websites. Dwayne Walker, 39, a veteran of Microsoft who runs Seattle-based ShopNow.com recalls the visible discomfort of white venture capitalists in 1995, when he was seeking...
...COOL PUPS INVENTOR: JO WIDNESS If dogs had thumbs, they would probably stop drinking out of the toilet. They also might turn on the air conditioning when their owner leaves them in a hot car. Until evolution, there's the Chilly Dog, a car system with a preprogrammed temperature setting that automatically starts a car's engine and turns on the AC when things get too hot. The vehicle runs for a programmed period of time and then shuts off. The process repeats whenever the threshold temperature is reached...
...COOL LAPS INVENTOR: RAY NOVOTNY For the literal-minded few who insist on actually propping their laptop computers on their laps, the consequence can be an extreme case of warm thighs. The Laptop Soft-Seat, made of lightweight aluminum, absorbs the excess heat and keeps computers and knees cool. So does a table, but then that was invented a while...
...pinpoint exactly what was wrong. The Given Diagnostic Imaging System is a camera tucked inside a tiny capsule that, when swallowed, takes a sci-fi jaunt through the body, beaming detailed color images to a patient-worn belt that are then downloaded onto a computer for analysis. It's cool--and currently being tested overseas--but FDA approval is still years away, and so far doctors have been plagued by an inability to maneuver the capsule. We believe Martin Short is available...
Turning your dial to a pop radio station is like turning back to 1999. The Backstreet Boys' new album rehashes track-for-track the pointless pseudo R&B and insufferable ballads of Millennium (cool drinking game: take a shot every time you can name the Millennium song that inspired a new album cut). Perhaps the only interesting thing about Black and Blue is its odd title (didn't you expect something like Jive-in' with the Homies?). The Boys prefer to leave its meaning ambiguous, perhaps because the label chose the title and they're as befuddled...