Digital Santa, Part 3: Riding High on the Turbo Cyber Sleigh

Flashing strobe lights, streaming LEDs, whining jet engines, a Space Shuttle's roar ... this isn't your grandpa's Santa Claus sleigh. Just about everyone has some mental image of Santa's sleigh -- a hyperflux supervehicle drawn by high-flying reindeer genetically modified for delivering gifts and toys to girls and boys around the world, for instance. That's not even mentioning the adamantium-mithril alloy body, friction-free force-field propulsion system and stardust antimatter reactor -- for those of us more imaginatively inclined.