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Fred Levine, 62, a retired computer-systems analyst from Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., began doing Qi Gong in September. He takes a weekly class taught by Claire Cunneen at the New York Center of the Integral Way and practices every other day at home. He also plays tennis, poorly, in his estimation, at least until recently. The first time he did a Qi Gong warm-up--gently pummeling his body with his fists--in preparation for his weekly game, he noticed a dramatic change. "About halfway through I suddenly started playing differently. I was using my mind more...
...firm IDC predicts that by 2002, U.S. handheld sales will triple to 6.9 million units--about the same number of notebooks sold in the U.S. this year. Why are consumers so keen on handhelds? While failed products like the Apple Newton tried to handle too many tasks, says IDC analyst Jill House, today's handhelds perform just a few basic organizing functions extremely well...
...extra $100, you can try DVD's pay-per-view cousin, called DVX. But don't get too attached yet. "Some of the concepts aren't bad," Kevin Hause, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, says with faint praise. "In the end, the best thing about it may be that the player will still play DVDs after DVX dies...
...might be a new PC, even two. This year's top models (like the Compaq Presario 5665, seen here) roar--and still seem to have last year's price tags attached. Just as intriguing at the other end of the spectrum, the $499 eTower has arrived. Forrester Research analyst Bruce Kasrel notes that while 43% of America's 100 million homes have at least one PC, only 12% have more than one. Though the maturing U.S. PC market grew just 2.5% last year, a new era may be dawning. "We could finally start to see disposable computing," Kasrel says...
...years back, in fact, notebook computers were hardly pleasant travel companions. Heavy and pricey, these 6-to-8-lb. bricks were a nuisance. With the advent of the 3-lb., $2,000 "ultraportables," like Sony's Vaio 505 and Toshiba's Portege 3010CT, comes new "executive cachet," says analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies. He expects this category to account for 20% of all notebook sales over the next few years. The new "Jupiter class" notebooks that run on the Windows CE operating system are just as svelte but cost a mere $1,000. They can run only limited "pocket...