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...moment of truth arrives when I'm invited to test the first Chatpen, developed in-house by Anoto. As writing instruments go, this one weighs no more than your average Mont Blanc and is about as long. But it's twice as thick: the infrared camera, which peeks out from under the nib of a basic ballpoint, seems to take up a lot of room. Most folks would find this pen too fat for comfortable writing. Wiebe assures me this is only a prototype, and the final product will be practically indistinguishable from an ordinary...
...Annals of Motor Transportation ASIAN VALUES What is it that binds Asia together? Long grain rice? Pegged currencies? Excessive humidity? McDonald's, free trade and air conditioning are eradicating those common cultural touchstones. And now the last great Asian unifier?thick, leaded, URBAN SMOG?is under threat by culturally insensitive Europeans. Last year, the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, with technical assistance from Denmark, introduced a clean alternative to the three-wheeled, polluting TEMPOS and TUK-TUKS that ply Asia's cities. More than 600 electric three-wheelers now operate in Kathmandu, and while they are cleaner and safer than their...
...main road bristling with Toyota dealerships and Nikkomarts. The citizens make their living from the soil, and everyone knows the business of Mrs. Chang down the street, for example, and her son Li who just bought a new Nissan Cefiro. They speak Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent so thick that mainlanders can't follow a word...
...Then Chen addresses the small crowd under the canopy, straining to find that memorable tone?his voice modulating, his thick southern accent wandering through tenor registers as he praises the community for pulling together. He has done a hundred of these stump speeches?dedicating elementary schools, christening buildings, opening military bases. What he is saying is by now rote, the usual praise for Taiwan and the spirit of its people. But what he seems to be trying to get across is: come with me, come with me to this new Taiwan, this better place, we will have to find...
...seems Jobs has finally figured out what the public wants in a laptop computer. The new iBook looks and feels very much like a titanium Powerbook that went through a compactor and got drenched in milky-white plastic. This is not a bad thing. The newcomer is 1.3 in. thick--a mere 0.3 in. deeper than the titanium model, yet has shed about 2 in. in length (meaning you can almost hide it under an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper). Its keyboard is still full-size, however, and the plastic-rubbery covering should scratch and stain even less than...