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...thought they had been around forever. XV Beacon in Boston, for example, opened for New Year's 2000, yet because it is nestled among the cobblestones and brick Federal architecture of Beacon Hill, it would never occur to you before entering that each of its bathrooms sports a flat-screen Bloomberg News display. The 61-room hotel's only exterior signature is its gold nameplate: xv beacon. By contrast, the Soniat House in New Orleans is draped in its history: it was created from adjoining Creole town houses that date back to the early 19th century. Houston's Colombe...
...entertaining," he says as he picks his way past construction debris down four levels of stairs. Despite the hour, three technicians are working in the ground-floor reception hall, with its view of the Olympic Mountains across Lake Washington, adjusting two dozen 40-in. monitors that will form a flat-screen display covering an entire wall. "When you visit, you'll get an electronic pin encoded with your preferences," he explains. "As you wander toward any room, your favorite pictures will appear along with the music you like or a TV show or movie you're watching. The system will...
...electronics giants Toshiba and Sharp to form alliances with his company earlier this year. Apple is contributing software know-how and product design to manufacture a CD-ROM player with Toshiba and a PDA with Sharp; the Japanese firms are providing manufacturing expertise along with key components such as flat-screen displays. Says Sculley: "We cannot afford to fund these projects by ourselves. These alliances give us a chance to be players in an important growth area." Agrees Toshiba's Takehiko Kotoh: "In the 100-m race, Apple is the top runner. They are very quick to move, and they...
...more economical device for displaying images transmitted over the air waves. Now scientists at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh think that they may have found a way. At this month's electro-optics and international laser exhibition in San Francisco, they displayed the prototype of a flat-screen TV system that is less than one-eighth of an inch thick and may some day be hung on a wall like a pane of plate glass in an ordinary picture frame...
Cinerama officials are already planning to shoot feature films. The new medium, they claim, will in time replace most flat-screen movies. While many moviegoers are ready to accept this prediction, some agree with one owl-eyed critic who said, after a bout with Cinerama: "They're riding a two-wheeler, but they've never learned to walk...