Web Week

Jonah Lomu: A site as dynamic as the legend himself, ever-changing and always worth a visit.

A cyber-shop has sprung into being since the last time I was here, crammed with Jonah memorabilia, wearables and sample tracks (Bob Marley, Barry White, Strong Islanders) from Jonah's new CD.

Datahand: I've always been a bit wary of ergonomic keyboards - like that Microsoft one that always looks as if it has fractured its spine.

But that's positively mundane compared with the Datahand, which offers a total of 132 keys through the use of five wrap-around key-switches clustered around the tips of each finger.

The keyboard requires 88 per cent less force than a traditional keypad to use, thus reducing musculoskeletal stress, the makers claim.

Hideously ugly, but at $US1000 ($2327) it must surely have something going for it.

Human Genome Project: Treat yourself to an astounding tour of your own genome - zoom down to the level of DNA and see the mind-numbing data-stream that biologists are trying to interpret.

Just click on the words "Oct 7th, 2000 freeze."

In the "genome position" window that comes up, type "chr21" - for Chromosome 21, the smallest chromosome - and click the "Submit" button.

The banner at the top says you are looking at a representation of Chromosome 21, which is 34,907,570 base pairs of DNA in length. Can you handle the excitement?

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Jonah Lomu

Datahand

Human genome project