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...versatility. A few years ago it pioneered the DCS (Digital Camera Station), which lets users make prints of photos taken with their digital camera. It also lets them upload images onto the Internet, freeing up digital camera memory for more picture taking. Customers can download the images onto their PCs when they get home. Last month, Omron upgraded the machines, allowing customers to download music from a satellite transmission system. These features cost about the same as a couple of soft drinks. Omron spokesman Osamu Harasawa envisions a DCS terminal that can electronically dispense movies or books onto PDAs...
Whether a technology catches on with consumers depends on social conditions. For Americans, the gateway (no pun intended) to a connected world is the personal computer. PCs make sense for Americans, with their big houses. It's easy to hide that unlovely box of tricks somewhere out of sight--and use it in peace and quiet. But many Europeans and Japanese live in cramped apartments. For them, a PC not only overwhelms the living room, it also offers no privacy. Mobile phones, by contrast, are unobtrusive, as well as being a liberating way (especially for teenagers) to connect with friends...
...middle of the spectrum. On one hand, I recently installed a high-speed DSL service. These "always on" connections are catnip to hackers because they are stationary targets, vulnerable to attack 24 hours a day. On the other hand, I have a Mac, and most mischiefmakers prefer Windows PCs...
...LIVING CALLER We love our cell phones (except when we hate them), but nobody likes squinting at those murky little gray-and-black screens. Now we don't have to. Sanyo's new SCP-5000 phone ($500, available only from Sprint PCS) is the first in the U.S. with a screen that displays colors--256 of them, to be exact. Download tiny digital photos of your pals, and when they call, the SCP-5000 will show you their smiling faces. It also surfs the Web, stores 500 phone numbers and 300 e-mail addresses, and plays an incomprehensible game called...
...computers at the same time. Nothing causes cranial pain more quickly, as I discovered when I got my hands on the two pieces of software that will soon rule our lives: Windows XP and Mac OS X (pronounced oh-ess ten). These are the next-generation operating systems for PCs and Macs, respectively. Windows XP, to be released later this year, is currently out in beta, a trial, bug-testing format. The debugged OS X is on store shelves now, which means it ties your brain into slightly fewer knots...