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Article: Gadgets, gizmos and thingamabobs for the '90s. (Product Watch)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 20, 1989
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GADGETS, GIZMOS AND THINGAMABOBS FOR THE '90s
From videogames that follow your kids everywhere to a clever, computerized envelope labeler, this year's new offerings mix variations on familiar themes with a few genuine innovations.
LIGHTER THAN LAPTOPS
They may be portable, but laptop computers are gargantuan compared with their new, smaller brethren, which have been dubbed notebooks and palmtops. The smallest of the small are the 1-pound Poqet ($1,995) and Atari Portfolio ($399), each about the size of a videocassette. The Poqet has more memory and software capability, and its screen is 7-1/8 inches by 3 inches, compared with Portfolio's ...