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By JULES ALLEN
Published September 5, 2005

Heaven on 2 wheels

www.EnvBike.com/

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HowStuffWorks.com/fuel-cell.htm/printable

I love my Segway. But the thought of having another whizzy, non-gasoline-powered two-wheeler is almost too much to resist. This motorbike wannabe might just be the ultimate geek toy. It's light and fast. Despite the Web site's technical shortcomings, I was impressed by the bike's specifications. It uses a fuel cell powered by hydrogen and oxygen. The truly curious will find full details of fuel cell technology in the second link.

www.goombah.com/

It's great to have friends with similar tastes in music and movies asyou tend to discover a whole bunch of new material. Perhaps, though, you're lacking friends with taste or just have offbeat interests. Enter Goombah, a free service for those who use iTunes. The theory is the more you listen to something, the more you like it. This nifty program will match up your playlist with other people like you. It's got me grooving on lots of fresh tracks I otherwise would have missed.

FoneFinder.net/

At first blush, this is a great tool for finding out area codes. If you're truly interested in where a call originated, this site drills deeper and tells you the prefix owner. So, for example, 727 is Pinellas. If the next three digits are 515, it came from an AT&T Wireless cell phone. The international finder isn't quite as smart but will tell you the originating city. Geeky but fascinating.

zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/air-bld1.html

Anyone can slap together one of those simple paper airplanes and chuckle at its less than impressive range. But what if you want to be the baddest paper aviator on the block? The results can be spectacular with a little more effort. This site lays out instructions to do so, including a Flash-enabled presentation for those withmore bandwidth than patience.

www.BlinkSale.com/

One of the issues with a small business or side gig is getting money for the work you perform. A professionally designed invoice certainlyhelps in the credibility department.But that's only the start. This free site keeps track of your outstanding invoices, sends gentle reminders via e-mail, lets the recipient pay via PayPal, and allows line items of more than $1-billion (seriously). You even can subscribe to your invoice feed via RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

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