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...Robotics, a company known for its compact and reliable modems, is bidding to change that with Pilot ($299 to $369; 800-881-7256), a palmtop that stuffs all the dream functions of a pocket computer--scheduling, to-do lists and an address book--into a box the size of a memo pad. The 5.7-oz. organizer is the first to take that essential step from nifty techno-gadget into the realm of real-world utility...
...HANDFUL OF BITS US Robotics' Pilot is the first fully practical palmtop organizer...
Welcome to pocket-size medicine. The revolution in microelectronics that gave us cellular phones and palmtop computers now allows doctors like Bayne to take their healing arts out of the hospital and onto the road. The result: fully functional EKG machines no bigger than a box of chocolates; blood-sample analyzers no larger than a princess phone; portable ultrasound machines that fit in the trunk of a car. There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...sunny weekend day last September, John Sculley scribbled a note on the screen of his Apple Newton palmtop computer in the living room of his Greenwich, Connecticut, home. "Let's make Spectrum a world success," he wrote to Peter Caserta, president of Spectrum Information Technologies. Caserta and his aides, who had come to woo Sculley, then demonstrated how their wireless technology could reproduce the scripted message on a fax machine a few rooms away. As the fax whirred, the former chairman of Apple Computer saw visions of a global wireless revolution and his own role in it. "That's when...
...PALMTOP COMPUTER...