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Running enthusiasts are rigidly divided into two camps: those who jog with music and those who say the tunes distract them from the experience of connecting with their bodies and their surroundings. The decades-old argument was born with the advent of the Sony Walkman in 1979 and isn't likely to be resolved anytime soon. However, a few new products should add some pep to the steps of those who like melodies on the run--and they might even make some pro-music converts. --By Desa Philadelphia...
...Walkman Sony's latest sports CD Walkman has the best skip protection on the market, one-hand controls, rechargeable batteries and a built...
...slumping record industry's best hope? Glue. To combat online piracy, Epic Records has started shipping music critics personal cd players that are glued shut. Sealed inside the Walkmans, to prevent any unauthorized copying, are upcoming releases by Tori Amos, Pearl Jam AND audioslave (The remnants of Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden). "It's a low-tech response to a high-tech problem," says Epic spokeswoman Lisa Markowitz. "A walkman costs $50, and we could be saving hundreds of thousands of dollars by preventing this music from getting out." Critics are asked to return the cd player...
...Turning Japanese When it comes to gadgets and gizmos, Japan has typically been about four or five years in front of the U.S. consumer curve. The Walkman is just one of many gadgets that was available in the Japanese market well before it made the trip across the Pacific. Now, enterprising companies are offering the sleekest Japanese consumer electronics to U.S. consumers. Dynamism Inc. takes orders over the Internet for the latest for Sony products that can't be found in the States...
...Indeed, there's a gaping cost-benefit gulf to be bridged before Honda's little walking man can evolve into the next Walkman. Consumers have been conditioned to expect robots to behave like C-3PO of Star Wars. But creating artificially intelligent machines that can sense and interact with the environment in a convincing way is a monumentally complex computing task. The Japanese government's Humanoid Robotics Project set out five years ago to deliver a robot versatile enough to perform hard labor in hazardous conditions. Some $40 million has been spent but the project's HRP-1 robot still...