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08.08.2005 - Weird News For The Wired: Part II
<p>It's summer. The tide is high, the humidity unrelenting, and the news keeps producing more twists as the weeks roll by. For your summer reading, I offer up a quick tour of some of the more recent weird news for the wired: </p>
<p>Talk about hiking up the distraction meter. Motorola has teamed up with Oakley on a <A HREF="http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166402307">combination sunglasses/cell-phone headset targeted at hands-free driving. Supposedly, you can cut the glare while chewing the fat safely. I dunno, you still have to take your hands off the wheel and fiddle with small buttons--now dangerously near your line of vision. And at $295, these glasses should offer X-ray vision, or at least a video link to whomever is calling. Already I can see a major drawback looming on the horizon--figuring out where you left the darn things.</p>
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