It's not being paraded on the runways in Paris, but the wearable PC watch may just be an item whose time has come. The Ruputer can be easily hooked up to a PC for data exchange or adding and deleting applications. There is one teeny hitch. The instructions and menus are in Japanese. The next time you eat a lobster, check out whether it is a leftie.
Life is stranger than fiction.
Of course it's not a very funny joke, with dire news reports about people heading for the hills, prepared for total urban chaos once the clock rolls over to January 1, 2000. It all depends on what angle you view the problem from. Instead of hunkering down in a bunker somewhere, surrounded by bottled water and canned food, guns ready, consider another approach. The guide gives you something to do and lets you get to know your neighbours too. It is posted on the Web for accessibility and archival purposes, and is not updated after publication.