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Feel like watching TV on the patio? What's that, the cords won't reach? Fear not. At last week's Comdex convention in Las Vegas, Shanghai Visart Technologies, a Chinese firm, unveiled a 17-in. LCD monitor ($900) that doesn't need any wires. The screen can be carried anywhere within about 100 ft. of the base station, which transmits a cable-TV or DVD signal using the same frequency spectrum as cordless phones and wi-fi. A rechargeable lithium battery that lasts four to six hours cuts the TV loose from electrical wires as well. The portable tube...
Casio Exilim EX-Z4U At less than 1 in. thick, the Z4 is an engineering marvel: a 4-megapixel camera with a retracting 3x optical-zoom lens and a 2-in. LCD screen. It takes pretty pictures too. exilim.casio.com...
...getting a lot of attention these days, but the better value may be rear-projection sets. A quick price check proves the point: a 56-in. Digital Light Processing (DLP) TV from Samsung costs $5,000, Philips' 55-in. Cineos lists for $4,200, and Sony's 60-in. LCD Grand WEGA is $4,000. By comparison, a 50-in. plasma set, while handsome and sleek, will run you $15,000. And rear-projection TVs have significantly slimmed down their rears, compared with older models, so you don't need a weight lifter to lug one into your...
Rival Recipe Smart-Pot Yes, it's hard to find time to cook--and it's even harder to remember recipes. That's where the Smart-Pot comes in, with 200-plus concoctions stored in its memory. Read them on the LCD screen. www.crockpot.com...
PICTURE THIS Can't decide which of your photos look best on the wall? Rotate through them wirelessly from your computer with a 12-in. LCD frame from Wallflower Systems. From...