Word: keyboarding
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DIAL M FOR MODEM Last week AT&T unveiled 25 Internet pay phones at airports in New York, Atlanta and Dallas. The AT&T Public Phone 2000i has a 12-in. screen, a full-size keyboard and a touch pad. Internet access comes at a reasonable 25[cents] per minute (with a 4-min. minimum), and callers can talk and surf at the same time. No, you don't get your quarter back if you don't have any e-mail...
GIRL POWER It's great to encourage girls to learn about computers, and if it takes a spokesdoll like Barbie to get them interested, more power to her. The Barbie B-Book ($59.99) isn't a real laptop in any sense of the word, but it has a full keyboard and a pink-and-lavender mouse (with matching mouse pad), and it talks in that inimitable Barbie voice--it sounds like Britney Spears huffing helium. The B-Book comes preloaded with 50 educational games,including Search 'n' Spell, Zoo Clues and, uh, Shop 'til You Drop...
...Mobile Assistant IV, a "wearable computer" produced by Xybernaut, a small Fairfax company. It's hard to believe, but the doodads attached to my head and waist add up to a full-fledged PC, with 233-MHz Pentium chip, 32-MB memory and upwards of 3 GB storage. The keyboard on my wrist has 60 keys, and there is a trackball built into the central processor. Suspended in front of my left eye is a full-color vga screen scarcely larger than a postage stamp but so close it could just as easily be a 15-inch monitor...
...then the soccer scores and my e-mail. I considered playing an online computer game, but then remembered that I'm lousy at those. So I sent a how-are-you message to my boss in Hong Kong. For the first 10 minutes I fumbled with the tiny keyboard and trackball. But soon I was able to write entire sentences with relative ease - about 10 words a minute, against my usual 60. After half an hour I was comfortable enough to think and type at the same time. As a test, I wrote the first paragraph of this article...
...house, and can send and receive data wirelessly from a base station hooked up to home-entertainment equipment. A 10.4-in. (26-cm) lcd screen delivers vivid moving images or can serve as a digital photo album, and a touch-panel display eliminates the need for a keyboard. Sony, which began selling the device in Japan late last year, touts it as the Walkman of the information age. "It's amazing," says company president Kunitake Ando, who loftily describes the device as a gateway connecting the home to the outside world and eventually linking all appliances within. "The wireless environment...