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Research firm InfoTrends in Boston estimates that more than 80 million people worldwide will be transmitting digital images on the go by 2004. While some will do this using cameras like the i700, others will use cell phones with built-in lenses or handheld PCs with camera attachments. Low-cost camera sensors can be added to a cell phone for as little as $30. In Japan, a cell phone released by J-Phone this fall includes a built-in digital camera that lets users snap low-resolution photos of themselves, then e-mail them to friends. In the U.S., people...
...called Bluetooth technology (named after a 10th century Viking king), which uses short-range radio waves to enable any two devices to transmit data up to 328 ft. Expected to take off next year, Bluetooth will allow users of any digital camera to send images to their cell phones. The phones can then beam the files to a website. This will eliminate the need for a pricey wireless modem card (currently about $400), making the cameras much more economical...
Someday consumers may be able to custom-select the features they want in their personal wireless device. Whether or not the i700 becomes a popular favorite like cell phones and handheld PCs, its release makes clear for the first time that the ability to send and receive images is an integral part of that future...
That's just the start. The next few years will begin the era of "pervasive computing," when the focus of digital software will migrate from desktop PCs linked to the Internet by phone wire to a plethora of newfangled, Web-ready products ranging from TVs and cell phones to dashboards and Palm Pilots. "You'll have the Internet in your pocket, anytime, anywhere," says Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft's v.p. of user-interface platforms, of tomorrow's wireless and handheld devices. Most of them will be too small to have a keyboard. "The only way you're ever going...
...National Cancer Institute and NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant proteins found on malignant cells, for instance--and map the locations and shapes of tumors. If engineered to carry drugs or genes, the sensors could treat cancers one cell at a time, attacking malignant cells but leaving healthy ones unharmed. The result: an end to the pharmaceutical carpet bombing we call chemotherapy, not to mention...