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...ultimate comfort food. But boiling the potatoes and whipping them up just right is a drag. Now homemaker Carmina O'Connor of Warrenville, Ill., has patented a mashed-potato machine that cooks, mashes and flavors potatoes in just 20 min. Chefs insert washed potatoes into a food processor-size device and add water and seasonings. A finalist in Hammacher Schlemmer's Search for Invention 2001 competition, O'Connor hopes that someday "mashed-potato machines will be for Americans what rice cookers are for Asians." Now all she needs is someone to make and market her invention...
...Child often championed bread machines and other modern inventions, such as the food processor. She also used big props, including a long, flashy “fright knife” and a massive mortar and pestle that her husband Paul once lugged home from a flea market in Paris...
...Forward Spin: The company is way out in front in Bluetooth technology with a single-chip solution that offers smaller size as well as lower cost and power consumption by integrating the radio, base-band processor and software. But small players like California's Transilica and Zeevo may be catching up, and big players like Texas Instruments have the resources to become major threats. Other challenges for CSR and the Bluetooth industry: reducing chip cost and ensuring that chips made by different manufacturers can operate with one another...
...that ruggedized laptops are often heavy--and pricey. That Rough Rider III runs $5,000. The good news is that manufacturers have begun courting the consumer market. Panasonic, the field leader, now offers so-called semi-ruggeds. The Toughbook 72, introduced last fall with a Pentium III 700-MHz processor, is water-resistant, can survive a 1-ft. drop onto concrete and sells for $2,700. The Toughbook 37 Ultra-Slim--just 1 in. thick and 4.4 lbs.--is around $2,000. Ruggednotebooks' XE-620 runs about $3,000. Other companies in the space: Melard, Itronix and Dolch...
...upset. Apoplectic, even. He says I've forgotten to update his processor. (Which isn't the case. The Pentium 34 isn't due out for another couple of weeks.) This furthers my suspicion...