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Want to know if your stock portfolio is plummeting? Whetheryou'll be snowed in today? The Ambient Orb tells you at aglance. An oversized mood ring-cum-crystal ball, it changes coloras it monitors the information you've selected fromAmbient's Web site. It checks traffic, weather, stocks orwhatever you've selected every 10 minutes, changing color asthe data changes. The Orb's power cord plugs into any outlet.It doesn't need an Internet connection, it's unintrusive,and it saves you the trouble of looking up all that informationthroughout the day. It's just there-and it looks cool. ($299,www.ambientdevices.com, 617-758-4129).
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