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...airboard is light enough to carry anywhere in the house, and can send and receive data wirelessly from a base station hooked up to home-entertainment equipment. A 10.4-in. (26-cm) lcd screen delivers vivid moving images or can serve as a digital photo album, and a touch-panel display eliminates the need for a keyboard. Sony, which began selling the device in Japan late last year, touts it as the Walkman of the information age. "It's amazing," says company president Kunitake Ando, who loftily describes the device as a gateway connecting the home to the outside world...
...airboard is not for everybody. At $1,065, it costs as much as a laptop but isn't meant for serious computing. Checking e-mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty poky surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer. And it has a short leash: airboarders can drift only 30 m from the base station, a distance that may be fine for Japan's rabbit-hutch homes but is too weak for many rambling American houses...
...actually live in one. Fittingly, they decorated their futuristic flat in whites, creams and light pine to achieve, according to Raymond, "something a bit Zen." Both love the living-room entertainment center. They watch videos downloaded via a broadband Internet connection on a 42-in. (107-cm) flat-panel plasma screen, and use a wireless keyboard to operate the remote, surf the Net and dim the lights to a romantic, theater glow. Raymond reads the local paper online so he doesn't have to pay for a subscription to the print version...
...paper certainly looks no different from everyday A4; the dots are invisible to the naked eye. On closer examination, there's a narrow panel along the bottom, designated for an e-mail address or fax number. Two small boxes are marked "e-mail" and "fax" and a third, slightly larger, "send...
...theory I should be able to write on the paper, scribble an e-mail address (say, mine) on the designated panel and then check the send box. Then, in a blink of an eye, my written note would be sent by the pen to my mobile phone, my phone would send it to the Anoto server, the server would recognize which set of dots the note came from - but not the contents of the note itself - and pass it on to the server of the manufacturer of the paper I've written on. The manufacturer's server would execute...