(FORTUNE Magazine) – COLD CANNED COFFEE Beverage makers are peddling a new pick-me-up this summer: iced coffee in cans. Pokka, a Japanese soft-drink giant, has teamed up with California-based Original New York Seltzer to sell Original New York Express Iced Coffee. Pokka brews the stuff in Japan but is adding more milk and sugar for American palates. Price: 75 cents for eight ounces. Those who prefer a South American blend can try Jamaican Gold Iced Coffee by Prince of Peace Enterprises (12 oz., 75 cents), and for cappuccino addicts, there's P'nosh Iced Coffee by P'nosh Beverages (10 oz., 70 cents). Meanwhile, on the East Coast, Nestle is test-marketing a mocha cooler. Beverage Industry editor Eric Sfiligoj predicts the new drinks will catch on: ''They combine the beverage Americans love with the coldness that people prefer nowadays.''

TROUBLESHOOTER Eastman Kodak's new motion analyzer aims at a problem that has long bedeviled engineers on high-speed factory lines: intermittent failures. One minute a machine crimping beverage cartons, say, will be working fine; the next minute the air will be filled with splattered juice. Because such foul-ups occur too fast for the naked eye, engineers try to capture them on high-speed videotape machines known as motion analyzers. But random failures too often catch these troubleshooters in rewind mode. Kodak's solution: the EktaPro EM. It stores images on chips electronically instead of on magnetic tape. Set to watching a carton line, it can record all day until sensors detect that a failure has occurred. Then the EM shuts itself off, so that engineers can replay the event in stop-action or as slowly as 1/1000 of actual speed. Cost: $50,000 to $80,000.

BACKYARD GOLF If daddy is a golfer (and a gardener), here's the perfect gift for Father's Day. Clyde Robin Seed Co.'s Plant N' Putt gives him the ingredients he needs to turn the backyard into a putting green. The $45 kit comes with cup, flagpole, golf-course blueprints, and seeds for Penncross Creeping Bentgrass, the variety used on greens at most country clubs. The 10-ounce bag is enough for 300 square feet. But ''Fore'': It's easier to sink a 30-foot downhill putt than to keep this grass green. Says Clyde Robin CEO Steve Atwood: ''I tell golfers it's a difficult grass to grow, but they're crazy and willing to tackle it anyhow.'' Golfanatics have snapped up more than 2,000 kits since they went on sale in March.

REVERSE DICTIONARY This radical new software offers a shortcut to accurate communication. Microlytics's Inside Information arrays more than 65,000 words by category. A salesman preparing to make a pitch to a sailor, for example, can use it to bone up on nautical terms. Based partly on an experimental program called Word Nerd developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Inside Information includes 125 categories and 700 subcategories ranging from celestial bodies to sexual fetishes. Bonus: It helps cure tip-of-the-tongue memory lapses. Say you can't recall the term for what Ivan Boesky did for a living. Type in a short description, such as ''stock and profit,'' and hit FIND. The program suggests ''arbitrage,'' among other possibilities. For now, Inside Information is available only for Apple Computer's Macintosh line, but it could become standard in spiffy new word processors. Price: $119.