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Howard Dean is hardly what you would call a high-tech guru. The former Vermont Governor, whose trademark look is a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, is a mostly gadget-free zone. He does not carry a BlackBerry email pager or tablet PC (he leaves those to his aides). And don't expect to find Dean, 54, surfing the Web for hours at home. "I kind of missed the Internet boom," concedes the physician...
...Most of the information that’s encoded is completely obscure to us,” says Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology William M. Gelbart. “It’s as if we unearthed some ancient tablet but you can’t read most of it, because you don’t have the dictionary...
...refrigerator magnets, travel clocks and other tiny devices to update you on news, sports and weather via a wireless Internet chip. Gates is also pushing Smart Displays--thin, $1,000 computer screens you can take with you around the house and write notes on, as you would with a tablet-style...
...Will the extra versatility offered by tablet PCs get people excited enough to start buying computers again? It's doubtful. Tablets are too heavy and unwieldy to be used comfortably as notepads all day long. Not that you could. The TravelNote has a four-hour battery. That's fine for the class of potential business users of tablet PCs that Microsoft calls corridor warriors, Dilberts schlepping their tablets from meeting to meeting. But those of us who go on the road need to know our notepad isn't going to conk out after less than half a day away from...
...Bill Gates says that tablet PCs will replace ordinary laptops in five years. No doubt his prediction is based on the anticipation of lighter, cheaper, simpler versions to come. Manufacturers are close to producing sleek handheld devices that function less like computers and more like wireless electronic books, which can be used for Web surfing, e-mailing, and for reading newspapers, books and periodicals. Tablet technology isn't there yet, but the day will come when you'll finally be able to download TIME on a tablet - and, yes, take it into the bathroom...