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...addition, a California tech start-up firm called Nikean Corp. (www.nikean.com) is currently working on a wireless cellular data modem to allow you to use the Pilot as a wireless e-mail/Web appliance and another accessory to turn the Pilot into a text pager. Look for these to hit stores in July...
...trust in itself as a functioning entity. A student at Princeton informed me that he thinks his honor code is "too weak" because Princeton redundantly makes you sign your honor code pledge along with each exam and major paper. A sophomore at Harvard College who transferred from Cal Tech told me that his former university's simple code ("no member of the Cal Tech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member") was very effective...
...Robot By Dan Yaccarino (Viking; $14.99) The story gets right to the high-tech point: if Phil, the pint-size hero, had a robot, this gigantic mechanical best friend could eat Phil's Brussels sprouts (yuck!) and lima beans (ugh!). And take Phil's piano lessons. And go to school for him. And beat up bad guys. And eat Phil's chocolate cake...oops, wait a minute; not so fast! Equally charming are the author's bright, funny illustrations, which show Phil wearing a baseball cap frontward, not backward. Could this fashion statement signal the beginning of a trend...
Good PC service and reliability are doubly important when you're working out of a small office or at home and your tech support staff is your brother-in-law. Hewlett-Packard's Vectra is a super machine, but it's the service that really makes the difference: you get a three-year warranty and software that enables technicians to dial in to your PC over a modem line to diagnose and fix problems. An optional networking kit lets you link PCs to share files or a printer. Configurations cost up to $3,264 for a 200-MHz Pentium system...
...seconds after you snap them. If you don't like what you see, just erase and start over. The camera, one of the best available for less than $500, uses removable "flash" memory modules for extra storage. You can print the photos from your PC and soon at high-tech photo shops. ($499; Kodak...