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Oakley's Airwave: GPS, Bluetooth-enabled goggles

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What does the future hold for the Internet? As government delegations meet in Dubai for the World Conference on International Telecommunications, we discuss who - if anyone - should control the Web. And in TEST 24 we check out Oakley's Airwave - the goggles that provide you with an avalanche of information, such as altitude, speed and the location of your friends on the slopes!

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