Word: keyboards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sampling machine using voices from audience members. The humorous side of the band emerged when they argued among themselves or when Griffin replaced his lyrics with Chumbawumba or Fat Boy Slim. The band members playfully danced around the stage, covering obscure Aerosmith songs or playing chopsticks on the keyboard. As great as the musical selections were, the real joy of a Better Than Ezra show lies in the interactive and personal stage style, ranging from touching melodies to boisterous horseplay...
...system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry, Windows CE manager for Microsoft's British subsidiary. "I don't think anybody is making money in this yet. It's all about investing...
...Jeffrey N. Katz, chair of the provost's study on Keyboard-Associated Upper Extremity Disorders, said an increasing dependence on computers may be the cause of the trend...
...have sex. Any spurned lover can understand Maynard's desire to tell all: after convincing her they are "landsmen"--soulmates--Salinger dumps the vulnerable teenager cruelly and without explanation. The problem is, for someone who uses the letter I as if there were no other vowels on her keyboard, Maynard turns out not to have an introspective bone in her body...
When I first saw the Motorola Pagewriter 2000, the most popular two-way device on the market, I fell in lust. The thing is slightly larger than a deck of cards and has a teensy but functional keyboard (you can set it so that it makes the cutest clicking noises when you type) and a very readable monochrome screen. The Pagewriter's main function is to send and receive e-mail on the same network that pagers use. Something about handling e-mail while on the fly--from the train, say, or even in the bathtub--appealed...