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DIED. WALTER ZAPP, 97, inventor of the Minox mini-camera, a device tiny enough to be hidden in a closed hand; in Binningen, Switzerland. Though the camera he created in 1936 became a popular gadget in James Bond movies and other spy films, Zapp's invention was inspired not by anything so intriguing as espionage but by having once worked as an art photographer's apprentice, which required him to lug around heavy wooden cameras...
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...thin little computer that's good only for surfing the Web refuses to die. Now there's a new, low-cost surfing machine on the block, the Prismiq MediaPlayer ($250). More than just a Web browser that grabs news and weather reports from the Internet, this book-size gadget can also pull any songs, photos or videos that you've got stored on your PC's hard drive and play them on your stereo or TV. Devices like this are best when they work seamlessly and wirelessly. In this case, wireless networking is available--but sold separately. --By Wilson Rothman
Looking for another way to keep the kids from driving you nuts on those long summer road trips? Hasbro's new VideoNow might occupy them for a while. The $50 portable gadget plays 30-min. videodiscs ($7.99 each) with excerpts from popular shows like American Idol, SpongeBob SquarePants and Jimmy Neutron. It runs on a pair of AA batteries that should last for seven hours. And if the videos get too noisy, the kids can plug in a pair of earphones. It's a nice idea, but the tiny black-and-white screen is a disappointment...