Gadgets galore: whether it's music, lawn mowing, or bicycles, these cool new gizmos will keep you on the cutting edge.First you'll tell yourself that it's triple the price of a new iPod Shuffle The smallest and most basic iPod, and the only iPod without a display screen. Designed for people who just want to press start and play their tunes sequentially or at random, the shuffle holds up to 240 songs in 1GB of flash memory. . Then you'll hear the realistic bass tones and rich sounds coming from the Shure E4c Earphones ($300), and you'll evict the voice in your head that said it. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Music isn't enough. Now you can get your video to go as well. The iRiver PMC-140 ($550) lets you watch up to 80 hours of video on the road or on your couch. Because sometimes it's just too much to cross the room to find the TV remote. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There have been folding bikes for a while, but nobody has done it as well as the Dahon Speed P8 ($500). You won't be embarrassed to roll up to your office in this one, and you won't have to worry about it snapping in half every time you tap a curb either. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TrafficGauge ($80, plus $7 monthly service for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ) one-ups GPS devices by giving you what you really want--info on whether that Lakers game or that rain cloud is going to ruin your commute home. Right now it's just for the L.A.-Orange County and Seattle regions, but expect new cities soon. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Live a corporate fantasy on the high seas high seas In maritime law, the waters lying outside the territorial waters of any and all states. In the Middle Ages, a number of maritime states asserted sovereignty over large portions of the high seas. as you loot, pillage PILLAGE. The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enemy. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. , and "realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. priorities" the old-fashioned way in Sid Meier's Pirates! ($50) for Xbox. Sid's not a pirate, just a game designer--just so you know. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mowing is loud, eco-unfriendly, and allergy-inducing. Now you can fix at least two of those things with the Neuton Cordless Electric Mower ($360), a cute, quiet little mower that snips your grass without frying your nose with the fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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