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PERHAPS IT'S TIME to rename PC Expo the PC-esque Po.
Plenty of the goods displayed at the three-day trade fair late last month did computer-like things. Many of them plug into computers. Some of them were new plugs for computers. Lots of them could be stuffed into briefcases or pocketbooks, poked at with styli, or made to record images, data, audio and more.
The drift of this year's PC Expo at the Javits Center in Manhattan - actually, the event was a subset of an event called TECHXNY - is that the venerable desktop home computer is in disfavor, relatively speaking. Laptops are desirable, sexy new handhelds such as the Sony color-screen Clie are more desirable, and computers disguised as digital cameras are red-hot.
I'll have a closer look at some of these devices down the line. Here's a sampling of the PC-centric products that caught my eye:
Peerless portable drive system from Iomega: The latest in a long line of add-on storage goodies that began with the Zip drive. The smallest Peerless cartridge holds 10 gigabytes of data, or 100 times...