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Palm licensee Handspring has captured nearly 30% of U.S. retail PDA sales in the 12 months since its Visor line hit the shelves. The colorful, inexpensive devices were the first with expansion slots that allow users to add anything from a digital camera to an MP3 player--in effect to customize their PDAs. Co-founders Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins created the original PalmPilot before leaving Palm to start Handspring...
...instead of going to the concert you could just download MP3 music files from the Internet on mobile phones like the latest model from Samsung being shown at CeBIT...
...accessed by inserting Secure Digital Cards or MultiMediaCards into a slot in the Palm -no PC necessary. In addition to digital cameras, future add-ons include video recorders and global positioning systems. And Kodak is introducing a portable device that doubles as a digital camera and an MP3 player, evidently for adding a sound track to your pictures. If these product launches keep up, using every form of media simultaneously may become as easy as watching...
Mixing a maze with modern technology, this San Francisco installation sensation simulates Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous hallucinatory dream, the one that brought the world Kubla Khan. Donning a Plexiglas helmet and carrying an MP3 digital music player, visitors stumble along in deliberate disorientation beside Alph, the sacred river that leads to a stately pleasure dome. Creator Chris Hardman's sellout show is the hippest legal high on the West Coast...
WAKE-UP CALL There's nothing like radio luck in the morning--the first notes of your favorite song jostling you out of sleep. But why leave it to chance? The MP3 O'Clock ($55 at artistdirect.com can play digital music clips (or even your sweetheart's voice) instead of a buzzer or the radio. The website offers free MP3s and wake-up messages from pop stars to go with its colorful plastic alarm clocks, but you can also use your own digital files. Note to oversleepers: the 50-sec. clips don't leave much room for extra winks...