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Last week New York City played host to PC Expo 2000, the summer's biggest personal-computing trade show, and we braved the stale convention-center air and 85,000 rabid technophiles to check out the latest and greatest in personal-computing technology. Ironically, PCs were the last thing on anybody's mind at PC Expo. Instead, PDAs, digital cameras, webpads, and other handheld gadgets were all the rage...
Also from Sony was a radical new addition to its Mavica line of digital cameras. The Mavica MVC-CD1000 ($1,300, available in August) comes with a built-in CD-ROM burner, so when you snap a picture, you don't have to download it to your PC. Instead, the camera writes the image straight to a disc. No fuss, no muss...
...Wash., campus. Gates & Co. unveiled .NET ("dot-net"), a clunkily named companywide initiative that aims to at long last yank the company--whose main products still come shrink-wrapped--into the Internet age. Gates and his troops hauled out gadgets that were truly cool (a new Net-friendly tablet PC you write on with a pen), and videos that tried too hard to be (a promo for a new Net protocol with a hipster saying, "I told you it's the bomb...
...already an AOL member, you might think of AOLTV as a cheap alternative to a second PC, with the added benefit that you can chat while you veg. But you'll probably need a second phone line so you can still get calls while you're online. Also, whether you're using AOLTV or WebTV, surfing the Web on TV is a slow, blurry affair...
...live on top of a computer monitor, connect to the Internet and can turn anyone's life into a continuous broadcast. Last year 2.5 million webcams were sold. By 2003, sales of these eminently cheap ($50) little devices are expected to hit 36 million. When you buy your next PC, it's as likely to come with a webcam as with a keyboard...