That's what confronted visitors this week in Las Vegas at the Fall Comdex 98 trade show. Though you could outfit a NASA launch facility with the high-powered gear on display this year, it was the consumer equipment that was making headlines, especially the flat panel displays and hand held computers that the major vendors believe will produce the next surge in sales.
Input is by stylus.
Windows CE on an embedded chip. Can connect to the Internet via anything from a standard modem on up to high-speed cable access. Comes in a multitude of colors, including screaming yellow. Due on shelves this summer. Royal, the people who brought you the typewriter, are betting that the Pilot's price tag will make you take a look at their daVinci palm-sized organizer.