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Since Gateway unleashed its $3,000 plasma television last year, flat-panel TVs have moved from high-end curiosity to hot item, taking the hype-drenched world of consumer electronics by surprise. The flat-screen sets are brightening the picture in surprising places in this hard-to-tune economy. Design buffs love their sleek, minimalist profile; videophiles love the stunning picture quality; and investors are finally finding a bright spot in the beleaguered tech sector. In 2003, sales of plasma flat-screen televisions, despite an average price tag more than 10 times that of a conventional TV, tripled...
Music, as any teen in a garage band will tell you, should be as simple to make as it is to listen to. That hasn't always been the case with musicmaking software though. Turning your computer into a recording studio with programs such as Pro Tools and Cakewalk Plasma means splashing out hundreds of dollars and slogging through dense instruction manuals. There had to be an easier way. Now Apple has found it with GarageBand, part of its $49 suite of Mac-only iLife applications released in January. As the name suggests, GarageBand is aimed at amateurs...
...INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper?yours, that is?using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece...
...pool is so yesterday, hotels are constantly introducing new gadgets and gizmos. Here's a peek at what could soon become standard: INFOTAINMENT Can't afford Van Gogh's Sunflowers? At New York City 's Mandarin Oriental you can look at it on a big in-room plasma screen instead. Fed up with art? Then check out a sweeping 97 channels of TV. If you're at the Auckland Hilton, you can read the local paper - yours, that is - using a PC in the lobby, which prints the current editions of more than 120 international dailies for $5 apiece. COMFORTECH...
...other big catalyst for BNSF's growth: China. The railway's L.A.-to-Chicago transcontinental route is humming with mile-long BNSF trains, their railcars stacked two containers high with Chinese-made toys and togs, purses and plasma TVs. The town of Colton, Calif., east of Los Angeles, is now the busiest spot in the West for rail traffic, thanks to a tsunami of transpacific trade--$1.3 billion for BNSF alone this year--arriving at ports from San Diego to Seattle. "At the end of the day," says Rose, "all roads lead to China." Particularly railroads: BNSF's China-related...