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...tricky locations. (The one exception was when I tried to send an e-mail from a train under Pennsylvania Station; the message was never delivered, though the Pagewriter claimed otherwise.) It was also cool to have news headlines and travel data, such as plane schedules, delivered to my gadget...
...filled with moody self-indulgence. We have millions of vinyl records and eight-track tapes taking up space in our closets because electronics makers sold us on a digital future with no way to bring our analog past along for the ride. And speaking of rides, can't those gadget wizards replace our waning (in some climates, melting) cassette tapes with truly portable CDs that won't skip when...
...light of these market trends, Microsoft is shifting its development focus to a new breed of device that blends the power of a PC with the ease of use and gee-whiz factor of a consumer electronics gadget. Gates, in fact, says the executive changes will allow him to spend more time with his nerdy brethren, working on "architectural breakthroughs" for such devices, including TV set-top boxes, smart phones and tablet computers...
...avoid that sorry fate? You'll want to weigh two crucial questions. One: Is the gadget digital? In short order, virtually all data will be rendered in computer language to move fluently through the Net's electronic sprawl. Analog phones and plain-film cameras will be about as worthwhile tomorrow as Betamax movies are in our VHS world today. To be sure, you'll still pay extra to go digital: ordinary Canon cameras, with their quaint loadable film, run from $200 bargains on up the price scale, while the digital Canon Sureshot costs $699 at New York City's 47th...
...least a mile and a half deep. When Tommy Thompson, by the early 1980s a marine engineer at the elite Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, became interested in undersea mining and salvage, technology for very deep recovery had not progressed much beyond the diving bell. This gadget, first developed in the 17th century, could go deep but do almost no real work...