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...Weintraub already considers his video camera, electronic tablet and IBM PC AT to be tools of his trade, enabling him to "talk to his patients through a picture." The technology, he says, stems from "the thought that you can capture a human image and develop the software to manipulate its parts." Weintraub captures the image of a new patient with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs...
Daewoo's IBM-compatible personal computer, known as Leading Edge Model D, has been selling well since it was introduced last year. At $1,495, it costs about 45% less than an IBM PC. Says David McDonough, co-owner of five Computerland outlets in San Diego: "It doesn't bother the customers where the computer comes from. It's price and performance that counts...
...outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup toys intended to make their owners feel science fictional. After a night playing with the food processor, the CD player and the PC, who wouldn't feel he had seen the future? The playfulness of high-art designers, however, is of a more rarefied kind. Instead of making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi's line of Chippendale, Queen...
...owner can be isolated and less effective. Yet the IBM Personal Computer, which has become a desktop standard since its debut in 1981, still cannot be linked in large groups. Result: a virtual epidemic of lonely-terminal syndrome among IBM customers, who have bought nearly 3 million of PC's four current models. Growing impatient in the past year, PC users have been demanding a way to connect the machines. IBM responded in 1984 with a system for linking a few PCs, but business users clamored for a way to hook up hundreds of computers. Last week the company finally...
Jackson said the repair rate is not much lower for the IBM PC or the Digital Rainbow, both of which are also sold by OIT but serviced by the manufacturers. Spokesmen for both IBM and DEC refused comment...