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...Zodiac is the latest bad boy to challenge Game Boy on its own turf. The new handheld combines a Palm organizer with vivid-video games and comes fully equipped with a hot graphics accelerator, analog joystick and high-res LCD screen. Designed by former Palm engineers at the Mountain View, Calif., start-up Tapwave, the Zodiac will be available for preorder on Sept. 17 at tapwave.com ($299 for 32 MB of internal flash memory and $399 for 128 MB). Greater entities than this have tried and failed to trump the mighty Game Boy, but Tapwave is stacking its deck...
...defend everywhere--from airports to office buildings to cargo ships to hospitals. Sept. 11 shed an urgent light on our vulnerabilities and galvanized us to protect ourselves with something better than duct tape. So get ready for the next wave of high-tech defense: radiation detectors, Internet safeguards, handheld anthrax "sniffers." There's no panacea, but in a world of ancient hatreds, modern shields still have their uses. Here's what's next in three key areas...
...important next step would be to make the detection technologies faster and smaller. At Livermore, scientists developed and recently licensed a device called RadScout. Designed to detect trace amounts of radiation, it's a battery-powered, lunch-box-size handheld detector that customs officers could use to inspect suspicious containers at close range. Bruce Goodwin, head of the lab's nuclear-weapons program, says he hopes to see future versions of the device no bigger than a pen and "cheap enough so that every cop can have...
...POWER UP Batteries, batteries, batteries. And don't forget batteries. Lay in a supply now of all you will need to run flashlights, radios, handheld fans and anything else that takes portable juice. Remember to reverse the position of batteries stored in flashlights to prevent them from accidentally switching on and losing power. If you don't have a portable radio, buy one, but first check your clock radios and plug-in CD/radios since some of them also have battery capability...
Billings shows his students how to use the line to estimate unknown square roots as a handheld bell rattles through the hallway, heralding the beginning of the 50-minute lunch period...