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...next year. Beyond the usual PC gizmos, De Luca is betting on a new line of peripherals for game consoles, mobile phones, PDAs and TV set-top boxes. A cloth PDA case that unfolds into a keyboard made its debut earlier this year, and the latest offering is a pen that captures handwritten notes in digital form. The global market for such devices--what De Luca calls "the last inch between human fingers and the digital world"--is about $8 billion, enough to let Logitech grow rapidly over the next five years...
Experts say aquaculture done right could easily feed the world without polluting it. A favored method of environmentalists is the hard-walled pen system that isolates the fish from the surrounding water in 40-ft.-deep tanks and catches their waste in the bottom. Even more secure are containment ponds built onshore into which seawater is pumped. Agrimarine Industries in Cedar, B.C., is testing a site with eight tanks 100 yds. from the sea and 40 ft. above it. But production costs are expected to be about $2.20 a fish--double what it costs to raise a salmon...
...that innovation is: pen and virtual paper. At least, that's the new technology the industry is flogging, as embodied in a slew of tablet PCs hitting the market this month. More than 20 manufacturers, including Fujitsu, Compaq and Legend, have joined in a Microsoft-led initiative to produce laptop computers that double as legal pads. What distinguishes tablet PCs from conventional portables is their ability to capture a user's handwriting - either as an exact digital copy, complete with bad penmanship and doodles, or by converting notes into digital text...
...Reasonably lightweight (about 2 kg), with a 20-GB hard drive and an 800-MHz Pentium III processor, the TravelNote looks and performs like a normal laptop computer. The screen, however, swivels around and folds back over the keyboard, creating a writing slate. A stylus serves as both a pen for note taking, and as a mouse for operating programs. Using the machine's built-in Wi-Fi (wireless-fidelity) link, for example, you can write a URL into the Internet Explorer browser to visit a website from the comfort of your bed. Or you can draw a smiley face...
...even after Blackburn is finished pancaking Yale defenders, his pen will continue destroying the stereotype of a college football player...