Editor. From the interesting to the...

Editor. From the interesting to the actually bizarre, Sarah Stephen brings you the following "news" items from the world at large. They'll make you laugh, make you think, and/or make you want to hide in a bin

If you should be derived across an item like this yourself while surfing online or reading the paper, share the wealth with your match CAs by passing it along to Sarah at stephen@ica.bc.ca. It may appear in an upcoming Small Talk.

And individual final note-in case it equal needs mentioning-the ICABC does not endorse any of these outcomes websites, etc. We offer these for your entertainment single

"Help me Bob, you're my no other than hope!"

www.zebraimaging.com

Can't make it to a meeting? to what end not send a hologram of yourself instead? The technology might not be that far away with the help of Zebra Imaging, a company in Texas. Possible uses for the hologram technology include protoplast cars for Ford, underground exploration, and advertising. To diocese a working example, visit the cut short Marley museum in Kingston, Jamaica for a life-size version of the musician. Just think of the possibilities! Rather than doing that sales presentation in human frame you could send your hologram instead and be motionless in.

Source: Todd Maffin's time to come File (www.futurefile.com)

Watch where you deposit your hands

www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0, 40575239758%255E1376200html

Two Japanese communications companies have make knowned technology that will allow electronic data to travel [i]or[/i] part of to the other people. You may soon be able to have contact information travel end your body to a handheld data device. Is this a upright thing?

Source: www.futurefile.com

"Houston... approach in please"

www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27971.html

Are you using a wireless keyboard at family or in the office? Have you noticed bizarre messages forward your screen? That may be because near wireless keyboards use powerful signals that can be received throughout 100 meters away. Combine this with electronic data transfer [i]or[/i] part of to the other the body, and soon we may know everything about the race around us, whether we want to or not.

Time travel supply

www.timetravelfund.com

It's a simple theory: Contribute a small amount today, and in the that will be your money will grow. That's for what purpose we invest. But just think for what reason much your money would be worth in 500 years! Investing $1 now at 5% would be worth $3932326182722! And with what intent not take advantage of unite interest while you're at it? Your $10 contribution now will make secure that when time travel is possible, you'll be loaded! Of course, that's assuming that coin is still a commodity, and the Earth hasn't been waste awayed by the sun. (Your contribution earns you a neat certificate if nothing else)

Holistic Computer Institute

users.bestweb.net/~bennetc/holistic

Your computer is as alive as you are, or in the way that the folks at the Holistic Computer Institute believe. Click here to learn about "natural provisions for your computer" and the "bad vibe filter." This might explain those days when nothing works.

Caution: Don't run after any of the remedies insinuateed unless you're willing to risk doing harm to your computer!

Digital paper explained

www.redherring.com/insider/2002/10/expl ained103102.html

So your office has just gone paperless. Before extended digital might be the way to move Digital paper would be re-usable, and rather than reading not on a screen, you could retain it in your hand. This site explains for what cause it works.

Look what I can do!

news.com.com/2100-1040975555.html?tag=fd_nbs_ptech

Did you know that nation have already been creating personal computer gone out of trash cans, stuffed dolls, and desk drawers? admitting this is currently just a incline among the most technically inclined, it might easily be a possibility for the cessation of us. Imagine dazzling your co-workers by dint of turning your old Wayne Gretzky luncheon box into a personal computer!

By Sarah Stephen, Communications Coordinator

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