Penelope Manasco built a business over Bunco, a dice game that is more than 100 years old. While playing the game with her neighbors in Tarheel Estates in North Raleigh, a gripe session broke out over her uncool and unsexy laptop bag.

So last year, with her neighbors' help, she formed a company to design a laptop bag that combined form and function.

The former GlaxoSmithKline vice president founded Penelope Bags and ushered out the Avion, a convertible backpack and laptop bag.

Then this year, the company came out with the college-gal- friendly Go Girl bag.

The brightly colored bags have been popping up at the bookstores at Duke, UNC - Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia as an alternative to the ugly bags coeds father's bought them, Manasco said.

When asked why her bags were different from bags carried around by men, she said, "Because they're pretty."

Buzz got her on "World's Greatest," a show that features gee-whiz products from around the world. They taped a segment with Manasco on her lap- top bags which will air at 1 p.m. Monday on WRPX, also known as the i channel.

In addition to the university bookstores, the Go Girl bag is available at Certain Things at North Hills.

For more information about Penelope Bags and other locations to buy the bags, visit www.penelopebags.com.

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Wake Radiology Consultants have relocated its offices to the American Institute of Healthcare and Fitness near the intersection of Lead Mine Road and Forum Drive.

The old offices on Creedmoor Road closed in November.

The office will join several other health facilities in the 187,000-square-foot American Institute of Healthcare and Fitness. Also part of the center is the recently announced Healthtrax Fitness & Wellness, a fitness center that will include full-sized lap pool, a women's-only fitness center and a basketball gym.

For more information about Wake Radiology Consultants, visit www.wakeradiology.com.