Word: visor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prime example of the new "smart phone" breed is the Treo 180 communicator, which hits Hong Kong and Singapore this week. Produced by Handspring, the U.S. company that also makes the Visor line of digital organizers, the Treo seamlessly combines a mobile phone, PDA, wireless e-mail, short messaging (SMS) and Web surfing into one 160-g package. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like the demon spawn of a phone and a shoe. The gunmetal blue Treo appears to be a big-screen handset. But beneath a clamshell protective cover lies a QWERTY keyboard for surfing, pecking out electronic messages...
...market gewgaws, transparency--a visual trend popularized earlier by Apple's coveted iMacs--was the year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy, as if so jazzed they could...
...VISORPHONE Clamp the VisorPhone on your Handspring Visor (a cheaper clone of the Palm), tap a number in your address book and--bang!--look who's talking. This will be remembered as the year the cell phone and the PDA finally married...
...Visor Prism HANDSPRING, $449 Get all the organizing power and memory of a Palm in vivid color. Add-on modules can even turn Handspring's Prism into a cell phone, an MP3 player or a miniature digital camera...
HANDSPRING VISOR $249 (deluxe model) This low-cost handheld uses Palm's operating system and comes with add-ons like the Geode GPS unit shown here...