Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Such smart machines were among the hottest items unveiled last week at the computer industry's vast Comdex trade show in Las Vegas. Want a phone with a screen and pull-out keyboard that lets you surf the Internet? Samsung's Web Video Phone will hit stores in late February with a price somewhere south of $1,000. For those who'd like a touch-sensitive tablet that receives e-mail, news and weather, Global Converging Technologies will roll out its Cendis Net Display next summer for about $500. Philips' Ambi system, due out in February for $500, will turn...
Consumers have been snapping up all manner of information appliances at a rapidly growing rate. Americans this year will purchase more than 2 million smart machines, ranging from two-way pagers to Web-TV boxes that bring e-mail and the Internet to TV screens. That will nearly double the sales of such devices from last year--and the market is just starting to expand. (Sales of home PCs have been increasing at the pace of 23% a year.) According to the research firm IDC of Mountain View, Calif., the market for information appliances will grow from $485 million...
While no one is predicting the demise of home PCs, smart appliances could soon overtake them as the preferred means for sending e-mail or accessing the Web. "You shouldn't need a $1,000 computer to listen to radio broadcasts or make phone calls over the Internet," says John Latta, president of the research firm 4th Wave of Alexandria, Va. PC-wary shoppers would heartily agree, of course. And the intelligent devices that are heading into stores could encourage even technophobes to get connected...
...attractive opposites; three-year-old Angelica is a finely drawn priss. The animation is distinctive and supple, suggesting Max Fleischer and the Modernist Zagreb school. Who thought to give the kids' heads the shape and apparent consistency of grapefruit? Who unleashed the hyperkinetic floor-level kidcam? Someone with a smart sense of design...
There are still only two words the beginner really needs to know: Amazon.com No imitator comes close to Amazon's community reviews and smart-searching, although Barnes & Noble's newly revamped site www.barnesandnoble.com sometimes yields cheaper prices. For used books, drop by Powell's www.powells.com) which can handi-vac your wallet with the best of them...