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Shiny, Shiny. Say ciao to the black scuba suit your
G4 has been wearing for the past year. The kids over
at Gyms Pacific in Palo Alto, California, have been
working hard to bring the laptop-wielding generation
appropriately urbane and hip new neoprene sleeves
like this one. They are water resistant, washable with
soap and water, and sure to catch the discerning eye
of that cute girl sitting across from you in the terminal.
http://store.gymspacificstore.com
Just Do Hop It. Icelandic entrepreneurs have jumped on the
search engine bandwagon with dohop.com, a custom facility
for searching the best flight deals with one click of a mouse. The
marketing catch with this site is that it searches both low-cost
carriers – over 600 of them – as well as scheduled airlines, and can
list prices for you in local currency, all in just a few seconds. There’s
also a comprehensive facility for finding the other search engines’
best last minute travel deals. It saves a lot of time if you’re looking
for the best Internet fare, but if you need to plan an obscure route,
old-fashioned travel agents probably still have the best advice.
Shoot Like a Pro. This is one camera the Leica-own-
ing Brad Pitt will put on his wish list. (Who are we kid-
ding? Mr. Pitt is richer than God, and is having a baby
with Angelina Jolie. He wishes for nothing.) The Leica
C-Lux 1 is fashionably compact (5x10 cm), elegant
and stylish, and it takes outstanding digital pics.
The Panacea. Jetlagged? Malnourished? Feel a sore throat coming on?
Pack a few magic sachets of the cultishly popular vitamin supplement
Emergen-C and fizz your ailments away. The fizzing powders of Emergen-
C offer 1,000 mg of Vitamin C and 32 different mineral complexes and B
vitamins. Sweetened with fructose, it’s used by athletes for quick energy
and is probably verboten on your Atkins or South Beach diet. But it does
wonders for the rest of us. Look for it in well-stocked vitamin aisles,
hippie-esque grocery stores, or order directly from the manufacturer
at www.alacer.com. Comes in cranberry, tangerine, black cherry, lemon
lime, raspberry, tropical, and several other incarnations, including diet
and additional supplement versions.
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