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...machine -- based on AT&T's Hobbit chip for portable devices -- will let users send faxes and electronic mail by writing on the small display screen with a special pen. It will also transmit and store voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have a head start on several rivals expected later in the year, including Apple Computer's similar Newton model and Motorola's Dragon. To celebrate, Warwick gave the team that developed the Hobbit a symbolic...
...vision will be reinforced in the coming weeks by a series of bulletins from Silicon Valley. EO Inc., which last fall unveiled the first pen-based computer with a built-in cellular phone, will begin shipping finished products sometime this spring. Apple Computer, which has been teasing the press with carefully measured leaks about a pocket-size bundle of wonders called Newton, will belatedly deliver the first models sometime before summer (having missed | a self-imposed deadline last month). And this week a company called General Magic, which has been surrounded with breathless secrecy since it was founded three years...
...rocket rides based on George Lucas' Star Wars. Disney World has the Space Mountain roller coaster; Orlando has FreeFlight Zephyrhills, a firm that is experimenting with wind- tunnel technology to simulate a skydiving experience on the ground. Disney's Epcot Center has Michael Jackson in 3-D as Captain Eo; Orlando created the simulators on which allied pilots learned to aim their smart bombs...
...Imagineers, but with a difference. The group began to collaborate with the hottest show-business talent available, a strategy that enabled Disney to give its theme parks an immediate injection of Hollywood hipness. Enter Michael Jackson, who was recruited by Eisner to help write and star in Captain Eo, a 17-minute, $17 million movie musical in 3-D. Even more spectacular is Star Tours, a $32 million thrill ride that opened in January 1987 at Disneyland. The ride employs the technology of flight simulators, the devices used for training pilots and astronauts. Hydraulically powered, the StarSpeeder 3000 cabin shakes...
...most people will see is not the conscience-racked singer ("I'm starting with the man in the mirror/ I'm asking him to change his ways . . ./ If you wanna make the world a better place/ Take a look at yourself, and then make a change") but the Captain EO of theme-park fantasies or the peekaboo celebrity, recumbent in his isolation tank or cornered by paparazzi flashes, wearing his Elephant Man surgical mask and upping his bid for the remains of John Merrick...