Embedded chips spurring new products

Think of sneakers with GPS, or satellite location technology. Or a monitor for a child's room with an infrared light to let parents see in the dark. Even pill-sized digital cameras that let doctors view a patient's insides.

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Zoren on TV: CBS3 news team will move into new digs
Leave the elevator at Channel 3's new 15th and Spring Garden headquarters, and one thought pops into your head - "Get me a scooter!"

Charges tossed in DWI scooter case
BROOKFIELD - The case against a Brookfield man charged with driving drunk on his scooter, then cracking open a bottle of vodka in the back of a police cruiser was dismissed yesterday after the town's police chief did not appear in Western Worcester District Court, East Brookfield, to testify.

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