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MODERATE $329 Palm m500 At a svelte 4 oz. and 0.4 in. thick, the M500 doesn't look like a workhorse. But there's power in that tiny package--8MB of memory and rechargeable lithium polymer batteries. Best of all, it comes with all the trimmings: a backlit black-and-white screen, a vibrate alert and a slot for expansion cards roomy enough for an entire travel guide. www.palm.com...
CHEAP $130 SAMSUNG YP-20S MINI YEPP MP3 players are great because, unlike CD or cassette players of the Walkman ilk, they tend to fit in your pocket. The 64-MB Mini Yepp is so tiny it fits on a key chain. It's easy to set up and makes plenty of noise for its size. The only trick? Not losing it. www.samsungusa.com...
...interstellar villain because I'm test-driving the 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...
...MP3s--no simple trick, since the 33 MHz processor that powers these PDAs is too weak to drive MP3 music files. Sony created a neat hack: it added a digital-signal processing chip that bypasses the operating system. You'll need to shell out $150 more for a 64 MB memory stick, though--the 8 MB stick included with the unit holds three songs max. And if you want a wireless modem, you'll have to wait until the end of the year...
Then they decided to build it, throwing the equivalent of $10 million (in funds and hardware) into the project, and emerging with a blueprint for a machine with an Intel chip, 32 MB of ram and 16 MB of flash memory. Running the free Linux operating system, it features a picture-based touch -sensitive screen, multilingual text-to-speech capabilities and a writing pro-gram that differs enough from the Xerox-patented version used on Palm Pilots to skirt costly licensing fees. It allows e-mail and Net access, provided there is a working telephone line. All this, with smart...