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...want to introduce the Jacuzzi to newly affluent Chinese peasants. Instead of shipping the tubs from California, you simply ship the VEC unit, or cell. To make the tubs, two composite skins are draped over a foam model, and a thermochemical reaction causes them to harden into shape. (Because no metal bending is involved and the "thermoset" process uses chemistry, not immense heat, the molds cost a fraction of the conventional version.) The skins are then attached to a universal frame. The cell is closed and filled with pressurized water, which braces the skins together. Then composite materials are injected...
Since the entire unit is virtually self-contained, it can be assembled and running anywhere in a matter of days. If the market in baths dries up, you can switch the mold skins to make another product within an hour. Labor? O.K., you have to add hardware or electrical wiring to the finished product. But the VEC cell requires three people and very little technical expertise--as long as there is a link to the mother node...
Napster is, of course, the wildly popular file-sharing service whose 20 million users have downloaded some half a billion songs--most of them copyrighted, all of them free. To the music-industry plaintiffs in this week's suit--including Warner Records, which, like this magazine, is a unit of Time Warner--services like Napster are simply high-tech piracy. The industry is worried that in the future, only a few CDs will be sold; everyone else will download from the Net. In this suit, the Recording Industry Association of America and 18 record labels are asking Judge Marilyn Hall...
...HUPD unit was dispatched to assist a person who had fallen out of a wheelchair...
...cheapest model online at digiwalker.com It's made by a Japanese company called Yamax and distributed in the U.S. by a Kansas City, Mo., outfit called New Lifestyles. It arrived in the mail a few days later with a little instruction booklet that explained how to calibrate the unit to my stride. That took about five minutes. There was nothing more to do but clip it to my belt and start walking...