Technology The Week Of The Gizmos

title: “Technology The Week Of The Gizmos” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-13” author: “Thomas Legault”

Connect the base station to your cable line, TiVo, DVD changer and other media doo-dads and presto, you can watch the football game anywhere there’s a broadband connection—the den, the local Starbucks or a Helsinki hotel room. If you’re not in a hot zone, check out the score on Microsoft’s long-awaited SPOT watch. For 10 bucks a month you not only get the correct time but also sports, news, weather, stock quotes and personal messages and appointments. The geeky wrist devices are made by Fossil and Suunto. Earlier in the week, at the Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod mini, a lower-cost and more compact version of Apple’s best-selling music (2 million so far) player. Looking like James Bond’s business-card holder, it comes in five colors and holds 1,000 songs. Immediately after his keynote, Jobs finished negotiating a deal where Hewlett-Packard would sell a version of the suddenly bulky original Pod under the H-P brand name.