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Steve Jobs, ceo of Apple, argues that people won't watch movies on (very) small screens. Other companies are betting they will. So, will the new set of portable video players (PVPS), or "video iPods," that are flooding the market catch on like Apple's music gizmo? The Gmini400 from Archos, the French electronics company, speaks well for the pvp's future: the smallest such device, it can store as much as 80 hours of video and 200,000 digital photos, and lets the user play video games--all on a 2.2-in. color lcd screen. At $399, the Gmini400...
APPLICATIONS: For snowboarders and mountain bikers who want to tune out the great outdoors, the glasses mean one less gizmo in the fanny pack. Plus, they come with a rechargeable battery that lasts up to six hours, with either 128 MB or 256 MB of storage...
...with industrial displays and developed a fast way to read time codes on film. "We've always been innovative," he says. "Whatever we get involved in, we sink our teeth into." Today the very term BlackBerry is synonymous with wireless e-mail. More than 1 million people use the gizmo, led by a long list of the rich and famous that RIM says includes George W. Bush, Sarah Jessica Parker, George Clooney and the Beckhams. "We got into a market where there was really nothing there," says Lazaridis, 43, who founded RIM in 1984 as a student at the University...
...event?a leg-sapping, lung-wringing combination of swimming, cycling and running that only the fittest, and perhaps dorkiest, athletes can win. "Triathlon is a nerdy sport," says the intense, lean, 1.7-m Blake. "We have the weirdest group of people into the most gimmicky, gizmo things...
...more retro than the future. To look at old science-fiction films is to be reminded of the frailty of man's prophetic powers. Who would have guessed that some new ideas would fall out of favor (manned space travel) and some old ones would last (that 19th century gizmo the internal-combustion engine)? The fashioner of sci-fi Utopias or dystopias is advised to keep it simple and avoid embarrassment later...