Word: styluses
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...picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving up tend to produce increasingly higher pitches, and parallel lines generate harmonies. Different colors represent different instruments' melodic riffs or percussion beats, and the stylus can change tempo...
...quest for killer prints has taken developers in different directions. Epson's Stylus Photo R800 ($400; www.epson.com composes images using eight separate inks: the traditional cyan, magenta, yellow and black, plus a glossy black, a deeper red and blue, and a clear-gloss coating for white areas. The Dell Photo Printer 540 ($180; dell.com) which issues only 4-in. by 6-in. prints, fuses thermal dye onto special photo paper. Four passes of primary color, and out comes an image that fingerprints won't harm. The 540 can print directly from the memory cards of most cameras or connect...
...WORKS: The stacked screensa regular LCD and a touch-sensitive oneallow for a new breed of games. Play can be controlled with a PDA-type stylus in addition to buttons. Two kinds of wireless networking, including industry-standard wi-fi, mean that you'll be able to play some games head-to-head in a room or--with the right programming--seek combatants out on the Internet...
Less than five inches long and weighing under a half-pound, the gadget features a full (though understandably tiny) QWERTY keyboard, full-color screen, camera with photo-mail capability and an Internet browser. Like PDAs, it is navigated by a stylus. It looks like a phone, but acts almost like a laptop...
...goes on sale this month for $295 on Amazon.com and it has almost everything you have come to expect from its big brothers, including a USB connection to synch with a PC and an infrared port for wireless data transfer. There's even a backlit screen and a tiny stylus hidden in the band...