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...first-year, you didn’t know anyone with a digital camera. Today, if you don’t own one yourself, a close friend probably does. You probably know someone with an iPod MP3 player. You may even know someone with a digital video camera or a Palm device that doubles as a cell phone. And as we continue to demand more from our gadgetry, our computers continue to be the centers of the digital universe. As first-years, computers were our word processors and e-mail machines. Today, they are the means by which...
...prosecution brief confirms news reports that investigators are convinced, based on the forensic evidence found by the FBI lab, that Reid had Al-Qaeda confederates. "A human hair was found within the internal components of the explosive device, and a palm print was found on the paper used to make the detonator which was located in the device," the brief says. "Forensic comparisons have ruled Reid out as the source of either the hair or the palm print...
Late last year I watched in amazement as my mother took up Graffiti. (I'm talking about the system of entering text on digital organizers made by Palm, Handspring and Sony; she hasn't started spray-painting walls just yet.) Using a stylus on the screen, you are required to write characters the Graffiti way--an A without the horizontal line, and so on. It can be a daunting thing to learn, yet after watching my techno-challenged mom scribble happily on her new Handspring Visor, I felt certain it was the alphabet of the future...
...faith is collapsing, largely because Palm founder and Handspring co-founder Jeff Hawkins has converted to the new religion of thumb keyboards. You have probably seen these things on Blackberry e-mail pagers; they are tiny raised keys in regular qwerty order, the whole keyboard not more than a few inches wide. Handspring's popular Treo ($399), a combination cell phone and organizer, comes in either Graffiti or keyboard flavor. The new Sony Clie PEG-70V, a $599 organizer, is similarly agnostic. It offers Graffiti on the color screen, but flip that around and there's a thumb keyboard underneath...
...probably gets mistaken for a Palm at parties, but the OQO is actually a full-fledged 1-GHz PC crammed into a package that's just 4 in. long by 3 in. wide. It sounds crazy, but if you are sick of shuttling data back and forth among your desktop, your laptop, your PDA and your MP3 player, the OQO (don't try to pronounce it--just say the letters) could replace them all in one pocket-size gizmo. Look for it in stores toward the end of this summer for about $1,000, or find out more online...