Word: ultralights
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Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later. Yet even in this age of space shuttles, supersonic jets and ultralight airplanes, the quest to build the perfect personal flying machine still lures the world's inventors...
DESKTOPS Macs are back, PCs rev up 90 NOTEBOOKS Ultralight power play 93 HANDHELDS Wireless Web access now 96 CELL PHONES Going digital with care 100 PRINTERS, SCANNERS Sharp and cheap 102 SOFTWARE Utility players and Y2K 105 GAMES The age of total immersion 107 HOME THEATER On the verge of HDTV 110 DIGITAL CAMERAS True sophistication...
Most people think choice is a good thing. Take French roast vs. Kona, or Skippy vs. Jif. But when it comes to notebook computers, the options can be downright dizzying. This year, with the introduction of superfast Intel Pentium III processors in laptops and the rapid proliferation of ultralight PCs, your choices got even broader...
...world without refueling. Aircraft designed by Burt Rutan don't look like other planes. One of the industry's most innovative and influential designers, Rutan has built a pressurized gondola for a round-the-world balloon attempt, a rigid winglike sail for an America's Cup winner, GM's Ultralight show car and the X-38 NASA crew-return vehicle. He is now testing his most exotic craft yet, the asymmetrical twin-engined Boomerang, designed to prevent instability should one engine fail. And he has set his sights on the $10 million X-PRIZE for the first private spaceship...
...much attention to Windows CE when the first digital assistants using the software started shipping last spring. I should have. CE is perfect for lazy guys like me who are willing to trade off full functionality for a specialized, ultralight tool. But be warned that CE will run only its own applications, and they're "lite" versions. Microsoft is so worried that consumers will be confused--and buy a CE machine expecting it to run full Windows programs--that it will launch an "awareness" ad campaign next month. Pocket Word, for instance, is a dumbed-down Word that's little...