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...pretty smart browser. Type in a website and on the E62's screen you glimpse just a corner of the page. Use the joystick to move a cursor around on the page. Fast movement brings up a thumbnail image - a rough but handy treasure map showing everything you might want. After you've browsed a few pages, click the Back button and you'll see thumbnails of the pages you 've visited, so you can quickly pick the one you actually wanted to return to. As nice as the browsing experience was, I was foiled in my attempt...
...World Wide Web Consortium, the international organization that sets standards for the Web, came up with guidelines for making a website accessible to the disabled. They included using prominent headings on the site, putting invisible alt-text - it's what causes messages to pop up when you move a cursor over an image - in graphics, and allowing functions to be controlled by keystrokes rather than just mouse clicks. Many companies followed the guidelines, allowing Sexton and his peers to use software like JAWS for translating the websites into spoken words or even Braille. Last summer, Google got into...
...consumers' attention? For a taste of the future, tap the words Axe Feather into an Internet search engine. Any number of the results will take you to a page featuring an attractive young woman, clad in skimpy red undergarments, lying on a bed. Move the virtual feather with your cursor to tickle various parts of her body to get her to sneeze, giggle or writhe. Created 15 months ago by Dare, a London digital ad agency, for Axe, a line of Unilever grooming products for young men (called Lynx in Britain), the ad has captivated 15 million unique viewers...
...email with their feet. As an audience of assistants, members of the research team and star-struck employees watched, Gates, clad in a maroon crew neck sweater and khaki colored trousers, tried out the gizmo. Standing on the dance pad, he stomped on the down arrow and watched the cursor move down the list. His right loafer hopped on the right arrow until it moved up to the delete function marked by X and then he stomped forcefully and obliterated the entry...
...nightmarish, especially when you're on the road and you haven't made friends with the techie at the projector. You can kiss those jitters goodbye with the GyroTransport, a new toy from Thomson/RCA's Gyration. The company is known for its wireless "air mouse," which moves the cursor when waved in the air. The GyroTransport (available late spring for $200; www.gyration.com uses the same technology, letting you point-and-click through slides with a flick of a key-chain-size mouse. But here's the coolest feature: the gadget's receiver holds 1 GB of internal flash memory, plenty...