CYBIKO.Wireless game/communication device Price: US$99.95 retail www.cybiko.com * The Good It's fun. The good, guilty kind. Time-wasting games, wireless chat, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the e-mail, even friend finder finder, in law. Ordinarily the finder of lost property is entitled to retain it against anyone except the owner. It is larceny, however, for the finder to keep the property if he knows or can easily determine who owns it. , a kind of digital dating service popular in Japan a few years back. Once you fill out a personal profile ("tall, dark and handsome seeks vivacious international lady," or whatever you feel like inventing) the device scans the waves for a match. If your match is nearby and carrying a live Cybiko, both devices buzz away in your respective pockets. * The Bad What if your soul mate is not carrying a Cybiko? More realistically, it's a bit bigger and bulkier than similar two-way pagers that are all the rage General Public's All the Rage was released in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Track listing
* Who Should Buy Pre-teens will eat this up. It's a Game Boy-style handheld that let's you chat across the classroom. * Who Should Not The business world will definitely pass, even though Cybiko touts some productivity software. If you like the funky funky - Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way. It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone. Often used to describe interfaces. colors, check into a Handspring hand·spring n. A gymnastic feat in which the body is flipped completely forward or backward from an upright position, landing first on the hands and then on the feet. personal digital assistant instead. |
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