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...cell phone accessible ShuttleGirl was ready instantly. Palm contacted Delvecchio and Karamchandani about a handheld version, and by the end of November, 300 students had ShuttleGirl version 2.0 in their pockets. A version designed for Windows CE, Microsoft’s handheld device, is currently in the works...
This is how it goes with technology. Every invention is accompanied by passionate claims for its sensational applications. What follows is an inevitable period of adjustment: How do I actually use this thing, anyway? A year or so ago, my wife gave me a Palm Pilot for my birthday. Not knowing what to do with it, I put it in the charger. After two months, and with visibly hurt feelings, she finally asked me about it: "I think it's probably charged by now," she said. Ha, ha. I guiltily forced myself to use it. As it turned...
...future - the destiny, if you like - of computing. Think of all those neat-o gadgets that populate sci-fi flicks and cartoons. The ones that grab the imagination are usually small, affixed to the wrist, the lapel or the belt - in other words, wearable. Or consider the now-ubiquitous Palm handheld computer. When it first hit the market, all it could do was store phone numbers and messages somewhat more conveniently than your old Casio. Then folks started to develop specialist applications - games, maps, news briefs...
When I talk with Xybernaut's founder and president Edward Newman, 56, another Palm analogy comes up. The small, wiry, onetime CIA operative - who looks like he may burst from enthusiasm - believes the upcoming sixth-generation MA will appeal to "prosumers," the professionals who embraced the first Palm handhelds. "Those guys will show the way for the rest of the consumers," he says. Newman doesn't know this, but he's talking about me: I still swear by my old Palm Pilot. Would I buy a wearable? Yes, if it weighs less than a kilo, costs less than...
...With reporting by Anne Berryman/Conyers, Edward Barnes/Edinboro, Stephen Barnes/Jonesboro, Nancy Harbert/Albuquerque and Springfield, Broward Liston/West Palm Beach, Michelle McCalope/Clifton, Natalie Phillips/Seward, David Schwartz/Phoenix, David Thigpen/Paducah and Rod Walton/Fort Gibson