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Bystanders stared in wonder last summer as the fleet of 20 midnight-blue Cadillacs arrived in downtown Peking amid the clutter of buses and bicycles. The limousines, complete with built-in bars and TV sets, were the newest showpiece of an enterprise that is as remarkable in China as the luxury cars. Known as China International Trust and Investment Corporation, the state-owned firm woos foreign investors with a combination of savvy, sizzle and shrewd business skill. Said CITIC Chairman Rong Yiren, as he took delivery of the first Cadillacs to be acquired by a Chinese organization since the Communists...
...that box is everything but the TV, a very expensive, very necessary piece of the theater puzzle. RadioShack just introduced a product (which comes in a single, easy to carry box) that truly has everything you need to bring the cinema home. It's a DLP projector with built-in DVD player and stereo speakers, plus a subwoofer. Videophiles might desire a better, more complicated rig, but I was impressed with the simplicity of the set up and the quality of the movie-watching experience...
...built-in speakers point backward from the projector, so the ideal place to put the unit is on the coffee table in front of you. Bear in mind that the farther back the projector is from the wall or screen, the larger the picture will appear. We were able to get a picture roughly equivalent to that of a 65-in. big-screen TV, and didn't have to adjust much for "keystoning" (the tapering that occurs when you point the movie's rectangular picture up at an angle). Once we turned out the lights, and played with contrast...
...only the audio that dampened my film appreciation. In a cozy apartment near Dupont Circle, the 12-watt subwoofer was okay, but there wasn't enough power or clarity coming from the built-in 5.6-watt speakers. The good news there is that the Cinego has analog and digital audio outputs, so you can connect your own stereo pair, or even a 5.1-surround sound amp and speakers if you like. But then you'd lose the ability to watch-and-dash (or, at home, watch-and-stash). In the morning, to my host's chagrin, I packed everything back...
...iPod Minis and 2.5-lb. laptops, it was just a matter of time before somebody stuck a hard drive into a PDA. That's right: 4 GB of built-in memory is what distinguishes LifeDrive, PalmOne's first new line of handhelds in 2 1/2 years ($500; palmone.com) from competing Palms and pocket PCs. The extra memory will get you far businesswise. You can archive quite a few PowerPoint presentations, for example, and a GPS street-level map of the entire U.S. Built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth wireless networking (plus infrared and USB ports) let you juggle e-mail...