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TIGER QUIK WRITER $33; available in fall Kids use a stylus to send handwritten messages to friends up to 50 ft. away. It even works through walls...
...hear the industry talk, the future of m-commerce is virtually unlimited. PDAs and cell phones could one day replace wallets and money. Europeans are already using cell phones to make purchases from vending machines (the cost of the cigarettes or candy bar is automatically added to your account). That might come to America soon, but the industry is setting its sights even higher. Palm wants you eventually to store your credit-card numbers on your PDA and use it to make major purchases. It's working on a variety of techniques--including digital signatures and fingerprints--to establish that...
PDAs, with their larger screens, are a better bet for Web surfing. But they're expensive. A Palm VII costs $449, plus the monthly fee you pay for any wireless service. And they're not much use when you need to make a phone call. One-way pagers seem pretty antiquated these days, but two-way pagers with Web access can be a less expensive and highly portable way to access discrete bits of information. You can already use them to send and receive e-mail, buy the new Toni Braxton CD on Amazon.com ditch your Microsoft stock...
DIESEL EXHAUST Grimy fumes from buses and trucks may boost lung-cancer rates. The Clinton Administration has called for new, low-sulfur fuel use in all diesel engines starting in 2007, perhaps cutting carcinogens...
...also foreign, at first. "Man, they'd cheer an offsides call!" says rink announcer T.D. Smith (who has taken to lighting his cigars with the propane torch the players use to curve their sticks). The club hired a stand-up comic to pull volunteers from the audience and demonstrate each penalty, from high-sticking to cross-checking. And in a place that had no youth hockey, Gators players held clinics and helped organize 15 youth teams...