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...digital organizers, the Treo seamlessly combines a mobile phone, PDA, wireless e-mail, short messaging (SMS) and Web surfing into one 160-g package. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like the demon spawn of a phone and a shoe. The gunmetal blue Treo appears to be a big-screen handset. But beneath a clamshell protective cover lies a QWERTY keyboard for surfing, pecking out electronic messages and managing personal data (Handspring also offers a keyboard-less model that, like Palm organizers, relies on touch-screen and stylus for character input...
KYOCERA QCP2000 $99 to $149; available in Sept. Kyocera, which bought Qualcomm's handset unit last fall, plans to introduce cheap eye catchers like this...
...Arrow Press was founded 22 years ago by James Barondess, then a student in the house. At that time presses printing from handset type were being cast off by newspapers, and type foundries were closing. Barondess went around the country buying up type and collecting the materials needed to start a press. Since then, it has been running quietly--almost secretly--in this basement under the care of one of the Adams House tutors...
...basement windows and the quiet arc of a page over a bed of text. But it is immensely rich and beautiful. In the age of online literature and the overpowering flux of screened words, the work of the Bow and Arrow press takes on a new importance. The handset type of the press upholds the integrity of literature-it upholds the ideals of poetry in which every letter, every word has its exact weight. In which the silence of a stanza break is lead-measured under the page and can be held in the hand. In which the stacked steel...
DIAL IN STYLE Every year or two the designers at Denmark's Bang & Olufsen set new standards of cool for home electronics. This fall they hope to lure buyers with their new BeoCom 6000 cordless phone. The wedge-shaped handset (in blue, red, green or black) sits on a pyramid-shaped base and has a dialing wheel that makes it easy to scan and store numbers. Is it worth the $475 price? Good question...