Spinning Tales

• Wristy business: With carpal tunnel syndrome a reality of the modern-day, computer-intensive workplace, increasing attention is being paid to curbing its effects. The latest news from the medical front--courtesy of the Journal of the American Medical Association--is that yoga shows signs of providing relief from this repetitive-motion disorder. Breathe in, breathe out. . . .

• Who needs a secret password? Thanks to its growing affordability, biometrics technology is finally becoming a viable security option for entrepreneurs. Biometrics essentially relies on identification through physical features such as the eyes, face and fingerprints (as is the case with Compaq's $99 Fingerprint Identification Technology). Never before has face value meant so much.

• It's all in the game: Employee manuals get Nintendo-ized with the help of Corporate Gameware in New York City. The premise? Computer games are a heck of a lot more fun to play than any company's how-to directives are to read--ergo, why not merge one with the other? The result is a customizable game that teaches while urging players to, say, rack up points by answering client questions. Who can lose with this equation?

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This article was originally published in the March 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Spinning Tales.