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...like the poster children for a United Colors of Benetton ad, raced across the stage to switch instruments. The two men on guitar, Ian Parton and Sam Dook, move to keyboards or to the second drum kit in the back of the stage while a cute female multi-instrumentalist bounced between keyboard, guitar, and a bizarre wind-instrument that looked like a cross between a clarinet and a mini-keyboard. Ninja, the fizzbomb cheerleader/singer, shook jangling bells, while Chi Taylor-Fukami rocked out from behind a drum kit twice her size. Despite the positive energy and enthusiastic solicitation of audience...
...encore, the classic Jimmy Health tune “CTA,” which the band covers on their Paint the World album. Starting with a massive drum solo, the tune developed into a superb rendition with stand-out solos all around. Corea, donning his signature KX5 synth (a mini-keyboard worn like a guitar) stood center stage with the band and played away with a smiling youthful glow...
Without doubt, the mini-keyboard was the winner of the first two challenges. My thumbs were able to navigate the keys easily by touch, though surprisingly they did a lot better on the Treo's keyboard than on the Clie's (the Treo's is smaller, but the keys aren't quite so flat). The text raced across the screen fast enough for me to take dictation, and I soon needed to hit the delete key only once a paragraph or so. It made me realize how regularly I make mistakes in Graffiti--every other g comes...
...Palm i705 ($450) is a step closer to the easy, flexible wireless e-mail access all handheld users crave. Unlike the Palm VII, the i705 checks your e-mail constantly instead of just when you ask, and it alerts you when it arrives. If the i705 had a mini-keyboard like its rival, the RIM BlackBerry, we'd give it a high five...
TWISTED The Origami, a "concept" (read unfinished) device from National Semiconductor, combines a removable digital video and still camera, MP3 player, videoconferencing terminal, cell phone, mini-keyboard, Windows PC and wireless Internet browser in a single plastic case the size of a paperback novel. It changes function by twisting into seemingly endless positions and should be available late next fall...