Five Ideas to Watch
Inc., June, 2004 by Patrick J. Sauer and Jessalyn Swindoll
1. A Rock for Stocks
For Father's Day, retailer Brookstone is pushing glowing orbs and beacons from Ambient Devices in Massachusetts. The gadgets change color with the weather or the Dow (e.g., red = your stocks are up; blue = find a ledge). Ambient's David Rose hopes that soon, "people will have a dozen in their house, just like clocks." Maybe, but at $149 to $179, these mood ring updates are pricey.
2. Another Kind of Print Monitor
Gateway is now offering a biometric fingerprint sensor on its popular 450 notebook computer. The scanner, embedded in the PC's palm-rest, can remember fingerprints for multiple users -- and can cross-reference them with various passwords, so you can instantly log on to secure websites such as your bank's. Gateway positions the...
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