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HOT, HOT NEW Toy (?) Hot New toy coming By Dave Farber, farber@cis.upenn.edu It weighs four ounces, is about 5 by 3 inches in size, contains a QWERTY keyboard and LCD display, and holds half a megabyte of memory. It can connect to a PC to exchange files and download Email, and it contains a 900 MHz wireless transceiver that allows IMing (Instant Messaging) with others within about 300 feet. If you scatter a bunch of these devices around an area they expand the IM reach by automatically acting as relay points for devices farther away. It supports wireless interactive gaming. It contains a To-Do list, phone book, Spanish/English dictionary, Music Composer, calculator, alarm clock, and more, and it will scan the profiles of other devices in the area, notifying you with a vibrating alert when someone that interests you approaches. In the future, it will also play MP3 music files. Sounds like this might be the next high-end Palm Pilot or Windows CE organizer, but it's not. It's a new toy. It's Cybiko, from a company of the same name (http://www.cybiko.com/what.html), and this translucent, wavy-looking handheld "toy" is destined to hit the streets in March for $149, targeted at the 10 to 17 year old crowd (so, teachers, just imagine a school populated with a swarm of these devices.) Update by Dave Farber, farber@cis.upenn.edu
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