Word: keypad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...extension of their right hand, a mobile phone. Some are chatting with pals. Look closely, though, and you will see that many others are text messaging their friends, checking up on who's making out with whom, which clubs are hot tonight; constantly punching the numeric keypad as if to prove that the opposable thumb is what distinguishes humans from lesser primates...
...gave Xircom's Rex 6000 a try. Originally sold by Franklin, the Rex line of organizers was bought by Xircom last year and upgraded in all sorts of fabulous ways. First, Rex comes with a tiny stylus you can use to tap out words on the onscreen "virtual" keypad. It sounds weird, but it works like a charm. Second, you can download daily news and entertainment updates from the rex.net site into the device. Just set Rex in its cradle and push a button. I was even able to get movie listings for up to three local theaters...
...Japan, the world's second largest economy, only 625,000 homes have high-speed Internet access, out of a population of 126 million people. PCs never caught on, in part because the first models were ugly and bulky and used keyboards the Japanese aren't comfortable with. "We're keypad people," says DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa...