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...player. Moss made his pro hoops debut for the Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs of the United States Basketball League (just like the NBA, except without all those talented basketball players), scoring seven points and playing less defense than the Italian army, in a thrilling 113-112 victory over the Long Island Surf. ValleyDawgs coach Darryl Dawkins admitted to trying to protect Moss, who receives $3.5 million from his day job as a Minnesota Vikings wide receiver. "I didn't want to put him in a position where he had to go catch lobs and possibly fall over someone and end his career...
...phones at airports in New York, Atlanta and Dallas. The AT&T Public Phone 2000i has a 12-in. screen, a full-size keyboard and a touch pad. Internet access comes at a reasonable 25[cents] per minute (with a 4-min. minimum), and callers can talk and surf at the same time. No, you don't get your quarter back if you don't have any e-mail...
...without giving yourself a hernia? One solution is the new AirSpeak FLAIR ($1,985), a flat, lightweight touchscreen peripheral the size and shape of a cocktail tray that connects to your computer wirelessly. The FLAIR displays whatever is on your desktop, so you can check your e-mail or surf the Web from the living room or the boardroom. And when you're finished, you can serve martinis...
...everybody thinks Xybernaut is on to a sure thing, though. Over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, scientist Steven Schwartz and researcher Richard DeVaul scoff at the notion of wearables as a consumer product. "Why would you want to surf the Net or play a computer game while you walk around?" asks Schwartz, a genial 46-year-old who wears his skepticism lightly. "How would you survive crossing the street?" His argument against the MA-IV is that it simply takes a laptop computer and distributes its components around the body. The machine doesn't do anything...
...once to get the thing set up - and this is from someone who has trouble finding the "record" button on the vcr. Relaxing on my balcony, I could call up the airboard's on-screen remote control and start playing a video. By pressing another button, I could Net surf or check my e-mail account, while a split screen let me simultaneously watch my movie. The airboard's base station - the size of a shoe box - doubles as a stand and battery charger. There's a slot for inserting a Sony memory stick, the gum-stick-sized cartridge used...