Monday, December 15, 2003		IT Click

The new Napster pre-paid card, now available nationwide, is displayed in New York. The pre-paid card is one of a series of special holiday offers from Napster, allowing music fans for the first time to download Napster’s digital music without a credit card.

An outfit installed with three CCD cameras is shown at a wearable Media Fashion show in Tokyo. The outfit that can archive visual images was shown as part of a fashion show featuring various outfits and appliances combining fashion and technology. 

Richard W. DeVaul, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student, wears a tiny computer display mounted on eyeglass frames at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. He has created “memory glasses” which is a tiny computer display mounted on eyeglass frames and wired to a lightweight computer that can flash reminders to the wearer. 

A Malaysian shows an illegal copy of the next version of Microsoft Corp’s Windows operating system in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia’s brazen software pirates are hawking the software Microsoft has code named Longhorn for five ringgit ($1.30) each, two years before it is actually supposed to go on sale.