Word: handhelds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toshiba's finest-quality color screens (albeit a tiny 5 in. wide) with a pointing device built into its panel. The only downside is a microkeyboard that requires Horowitz-like dexterity. Despite the Libretto's $1,999 price tag (vs. $500 to $700 for Windows CE clamshell handheld devices), Toshiba expects to sell thousands to space-conscious execs and techies who know smaller, faster, better is also cooler...
...bathrooms are different, too. To flush the toilet, you pull a cord or lever overhead. When you turn on the hot water, a flame shoots up in a burner placed above the bathtub. There are only handheld showers. And often, the toilet is in a separate room from the rest of the customary bathroom facilities...
...beauty and empowering potential of a desktop machine. It gave new meaning to the word mouse; ordinary people could now make computers do extraordinary stuff, such as quack like a duck. Later, Capps, leading the Newton development team, tried to bring that same humanist spirit to the handheld market. The Newton was the world's first "personal digital assistant" and was supposed to rejuvenate the flagging company. But if the Mac quacked, the Newton gobbled like a turkey. Critics decried its buggy handwriting-recognition system and boutique price. It was dismissed as Doonesbury fodder soon after its 1992 release...
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PC COMDEX's hottest technology appeared to do the impossible--import the legendarily clunky Windows desktop operating system to handheld computers from the likes of Casio, Compaq and Philips. The NEC Mobile Pro HPC runs fist-size versions of Microsoft Word and Excel on a 5-in. screen...
...cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press you up against the characters, to make you feel the heat under their pale skin. So, as in his 1994 Danish TV series, The Kingdom (a bizarre blend of ER and Twin Peaks), he uses a handheld camera that swivels like a bobble-head doll. It's intimate, all right, and utterly maniacal--as deranged as the villagers think Bess has become...