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Those cries have finally been heard. Last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas marked the long-awaited public debut of the digital video disc, the (putative) New Tech Gadget of all New Tech Gadgets...
...real gadget guru, you already know about the Sharper Image chain of stores. Save time on the T by visiting them on-line at sharper-image.com and buy gifts from the comfort of your bedroom...
Family Matters is a more clean-cut comedy but is, in its own way, equally outre. Steve Urkel, the Winslow family's gadget-obsessed neighbor, has grown from prepubescence to college age on the show but still dresses and talks like a four-year-old. Watching Urkel--played by the twentysomething and seemingly 6-ft.-tall Jaleel White--comport himself as though he should be in a play group is more disconcerting than anything that ever went on in The Twilight Zone...
...palmtop that stuffs all the dream functions of a pocket computer--scheduling, to-do lists and an address book--into a box the size of a memo pad. The 5.7-oz. organizer is the first to take that essential step from nifty techno-gadget into the realm of real-world utility...
...cable empire is finally striking back. Its secret weapon: blisteringly fast access to the Internet, courtesy of the cable modem, an electronic gadget that connects computers to the outside world via cable-TV lines instead of phone lines. In the past two weeks, America's two largest cable operators, TCI and Time Warner, launched the nation's first commercial cable-modem services in Fremont, California, and Akron, Ohio, respectively. Time Warner built its own service, dubbed Road Runner (after Warner Bros.' lightning-speed cartoon character); TCI joined forces with a Silicon Valley start-up called @Home. The basic pitch, however...