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...with some trepidation that I brought home a pair of Cybikos. While the device won't be sold until March 20 (online only at www.cybiko.com) I had been dying to test one ever since I saw a photo. Your typical Cybiko looks like a walkie-talkie with a teensy typewriter keyboard cloned onto it, only cooler, since it comes in four translucent colors (if you count clear and black as colors, that is). Its primary function is wireless chat--you peck out messages on the keyboard and beam them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While...
While the ability to chat on a wireless walkie-talkie alone might make it worth the money for some, I was more excited by the other stuff that the Cybiko promises to do. The Chicago-based Cybiko company calls the device an "entertainment system" because it aspires to be a new gaming platform, like the Game Boy only better, since you can connect Cybiko to your PC and download a free game every day from its website, says the company. Chess, darts--wireless darts, how cool is that!--billiards, poker and dozens of other games are promised, which...
...more advanced messaging, Tiger's Lightning Mail ($60 in September) comes with a screen and keyboard and lets kids send real e-mail free to friends, once they hook it up by phone jack to the Internet. And for the kid who wants it all, Cybiko ($130, March) offers interactive games, a personal information manager and wireless messaging over distances...