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DIAL IN STYLE Every year or two the designers at Denmark's Bang & Olufsen set new standards of cool for home electronics. This fall they hope to lure buyers with their new BeoCom 6000 cordless phone. The wedge-shaped handset (in blue, red, green or black) sits on a pyramid-shaped base and has a dialing wheel that makes it easy to scan and store numbers. Is it worth the $475 price? Good question...
...like crazy and leave the rest of the industry playing catch-up. The iBook, available this September, morphs iMac's elegant, curvilinear design and Life Savers colors into an affordable portable (see chart) with a bunch of minor innovations and one major one: AirPort, a PC version of the cordless phone. AirPort's snap-in card and UFO-shaped "base station" (a $400 optional package) allow up to 10 users to swap data and surf the Web wirelessly from a range of up to 150 ft., putting Apple at least a few fiscal quarters ahead of its Windows rivals...
...forget about its answering the door if you live in a split-level home. And while you can put Cye down in a room and automatically set up a zigzagging vacuum path, it's not recommended since the optional vacuum tends to get fouled in its electric cord. A cordless model is in the works. Likewise, a camera is being considered, which would make navigating--and Stein harassment--that much simpler...
...home-tech consumers, this holiday season provides a rare bounty. Televisions, digital videodisc players and home computers are better, cheaper and less risky purchases than ever before. Camcorders are tinier; cordless phones more powerful. Half-size ovens cook in half the time...
Students too homebound to leave the immediate radius of cozy dormy comfort always have the steps in front of one's entryway. A great choice when pressed for time or when equipped with heavy books, the stoop is as constant as it is loveable. Best of all, cordless phones can be brought along for the ultimate home-really-close-to-home...