Word: casio
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...have to grope for a hotel-room outlet again, and no more waiting for batteries to recharge, either. But details on how costly the devices will be to own and operate are scarce, and there are potential drawbacks. Will there be maintenance hassles? (Batteries are, after all, wonderfully simple.) Casio's laptop power plant is fueled by small methanol cartridges that are replaced when the liquid is spent. Will we want to carry spare fuel cans around with us? Will airlines allow them on board? The answers to those questions will determine whether my power outages continue. Until then, intermittent...
...anyone hauling around spare AAs and an emergency power cord, it's obvious that energy-storage technology needs a rethink. Fortunately, one is under way. Within the next 18 months, consumer electronics manufacturers, including Casio and Sony, plan to start marketing personal portable devices powered not by batteries but by fuel cells...
...Casio, for example, recently unveiled a prototype of a fuel-cell-powered laptop that looks acceptably normal. The power supply weighs half as much as existing laptop batteries and can run the machine for 20 hours at a stretch?quadruple the longevity of a fully charged lithium-ion battery. Medis Technologies, a NASDAQ-listed Israeli company, has designed a tiny, 80-g fuel cell that can sustain 20 hours of mobile-phone conversation...
...symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian?make that Ahhhhh!-Bian?is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who?and please, don't make him do it?could arouse the economy with one smoldering glance...
...Microsoft is already seeding the market with software such as its Pocket PC 2002 platform, launched this month on handheld computing devices made by Casio, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Toshiba...