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Many companies showed off Internet appliances--devices that browse the Web and send e-mail, without the complications of a full-fledged PC--but the Gateway Connected Touch Pad ($599) drew the biggest crowds. It has a touchscreen, so you can pick it up like a notebook and write directly on its screen with a stylus. While it's easy to use, it's also technologically cutting edge: a low-power Crusoe chip gives it extra-long battery life, and instead of Microsoft's Windows it runs the crash-proof operating system Linux. Needless to say, Bill Gates...
...back of discarded Frito-Lay bags at the fly-by lunch counter. Like children compulsively playing Frogger in order to earn the 1,000 ticket laser wand behind the counter at Chuck E. Cheese, council members hope to scrounge enough oily plastic refuse to successfully bid for a new Gateway computer during a 100 day eploid.com web auction...
Currently, eploid.com is in the midst of a 100-day auction: Each day until Nov. 15, 10 Gateway computers will be auctioned off to the bidder offering the most eploids. In the last week, some computers have gone for as little as 1,380 eploids, while others have gone for as much as 4,405 eploids...
...caveat in the scheme is that the Gateway giveaway states that the winner must be 18 or younger to win. But Dasgupta says a few council members are under the age limit...
...twice what Audrey is worth. The device works with such popular ISPs as Earthlink, Prodigy and AT&T but not with the biggest: America Online. That may be because AOL (which still plans to merge with TIME's parent company, Time Warner) is releasing its own appliance, built by Gateway, before Christmas. But if AOL means nothing to you, Audrey is probably the best (and priciest) of the breed...