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 Helping
Hands
When high school
student Ryan Patterson, 18, saw a deaf woman trying
to order food at a Burger King, he had a eureka
moment: Why not create a device that translates
sign language into text? Armed with that idea
and a leather golf glove, Patterson created a
device that senses its wearer’s hand movements
and transmits them wirelessly to a tiny handheld
monitor, where they appear as words. The device
won Patterson a top prize at the Siemens Westinghouse
Science and Technology Competition.
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The
Cutting Edge
Ever since the advent of the Swiss army
knife, mankind has sought to fit more
and more tools into smaller devices.
The latest triumph of ingenuity over
simplicity is the i-Quip, which puts
an extraordinary number of traditional
gadgets-and quite a few new ones-into
a compact design. The i-Quip is divided
into two separate pod: one holds quotidian
tools (blades, scissors, screwdrivers,
etc.), the other such high-tech necessities
as a digital compass, a barometer, a
clock, a flashlight and an altimeter. |
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Magic
Fingers
If computer monitors can shrink to almost
nothing, why not keyboards? They soon may.
Two companies have developed prototype “virtual”
keyboards designed to accomany portable
devices like PDAs, tablet PCs and cell phones.
Here’s how they work: a laser beam
projects a glowing red outline of a keyboard
on a desk or other flat surface. A sensor
like those used in digital cameras monitors
they reflection of an infrared light projected
on the same spot. It can tell which “keys”
you are trying to strike by the way that
reflection changes. Someday, similar keyboards
may be built into the gadgets they work
with, so that they disappear when not in
use.
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Wired
Kingdom
Ever want to build a cathedral? Underwater?
Change your clothes, your face, your whole
body? Fly? You can’t do any of that stuff
in real life, but you can do it all and more
in Second Life, a startlingly lifelike 3-D
virtual world now evolving on the Internet.
Unlike other shared online adventures, Second
Life isn’t about building things, meeting
people and expressing yourself. Even if you
already have a life, you may want to get a
second one. |
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Politics
of development and
women in Afghanistan
By Hafizullah Emadi
Royal Book company, Bg-5, Rex Center
Basement,
Zaibunnisa street, Karachi: 74400
Tel: 021-5684244 |
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From South Asia
to North America An autobiography
1915-2000
By Syed Habib Ahmed
Published by: Oxford University Press,
5- Banglore Town, Sharae Faisal,
PO Box 13033, Karachi- 75350
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Kashmir:
What next?
Friedrich- Naumann- Stiftung,
P.O. Box 1733, House 40,
Street 27, F-6/2, Islamabad,
Tel: 051-2278896
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Brothers
in the Raj:
The lives of John and Henry Lawrence
By Harold Lee
Oxford University Press,
5 Banglore Town, Sharae Faisal,
Karachi-75350, Tel: 021- 4529025.
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 The
Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers (2002)
Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy
and Drama
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin,
Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Christopher
Lee
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Produced by: Fran Walsh, Barrie M.
Osborne, Peter Jackson, Tim Sanders
Written by: Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh,
Peter Jackson, Phillippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Time: 2 Hours 59 Minutes
Rating: PG-13 for epic battle sequences
and scary images.
Synopsis:The second chapter in the
J.R.R. Tolkien saga, the hobbits Frodo and
Sam brave terrible dangers in an attempt to
have the evil ring destroyed, while Aragorn,
Legolas and their allies strive to rescue
the abducted hobbits Pippin and Merry from
the clutches of evil. The great wizard Gandalf
also makes his miraculous return to aid in
the struggle against the united towers of
Saruman and Sauron. |
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Catherine was born in Swansea, Wales on September
25th, 1969. Catherine had a strong work ethic
instilled in her at a young age. Her dad owned
a candy factory, and Catherine has said that she
has many fond memories of snuggling up to her
father, who smelled like sugar. Still, neither
fishing nor candy-making were the life for her,
and she developed a passion for acting while still
very young.
Catherine and Michael Douglas' first son, Dylan
Michael Douglas, was born on 08/08/2000 in LA.
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Catherine
married actor Michael Douglas on 18/11/2000, in
a beautiful ceremony at New York's Plaza Hotel.
Catherine's family arrived from Swansea to New York,
including grandmother Zeta. Baby Dylan was at he
ceremony as well. Actors Jack Nicholson, Sir Anthony
Hopkins, Danny DeVito, James Woods and Goldie Hawn
were among the roughly 250 people in attendance
at the ceremony. The maid of honor was British television
presenter Anna Walker, and the best man was Cameron
Douglas, Michael's son from his first marriage. |
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