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...lost in gadget reverie the other evening on the train, fiddling with a sleek new Palm Vx, when I felt a fellow commuter plop down next to me. He sat close--too close--so I looked up and saw a man in a suit leaning over me, peering at my screen. "Got any good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said...
...This young inspector gadget admits that the tool kit in his pants is reflective of a deeper emotional void. “I don’t throw things away often enough.” He is uncomfortable with change. FM found seven-month-old ticket stubs and multiple fliers for international folk dances...
...longstanding Microsoft-AOL rivalry if you will. But "netpliances" like the new Gateways are a portent of precisely the kind of products that could release--faster than any judge--Redmond's iron grip on the software industry. By 2004, analysts expect this kind of cheap-and-easy surfing gadget to outsell PCs. In this market, the most unobtrusive operating system wins, and the feature-heavy heft that won the desktop wars for Microsoft becomes a liability. "Most of these devices have no need for a Windows experience," says Dan Kuznetsky, a system-software analyst at technology firm IDC. "Who needs...
...First gadget out of the gate is the Pocket PC, set to launch next week and butt heads with the Palm Pilot family of Personal Digital Assistants. Windows-based PDAs have been technically superior for some time, but the Palm outsells them all because of a Filofax-like operating system so simple even executive V.P.s...
...guys from (that's right) Youngstown, Ohio Ages: 21 to 24 Sounds Like: 'N Sync meets 2 Live Crew Fun Fact: All three members thank the Lord and Savior in the liner notes Sample Lyric: "We can do it automatic/I can freak you with my gadget" Sales Outlook: Gold...