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Fetish
Point and Click
You've secretly snapped a revealing shot of the Lord of the Rings movie set. Don't waste time downloading to your desktop - shoot it straight to SciFi.com from your camera. The Ricoh RDC-i700 lets you crop and rotate photos, then send them as email attachments, using a stylus on the 3.5-inch touchscreen. You can enter text with the onscreen keyboard. The 3.34-megapixel shooter also browses the Web. Add a standard $100 PC card modem, and you're a well-connected paparazzo.
RDC-i700: $1,500. Ricoh: (888) 742 6410, www.ricohzone.com.
Touch-Tone Typing
Need to pound out a few memos while you're pounding the pavement? The NeoPad keyboard, an efficient 3.6 by 2.7 inches, gives your NeoPoint 2600 phone a QWERTY front end. The tri-mode, dual-band handset's built-in email system works with existing POP3 and IMAP4 accounts, and its 11-line screen lets you read to-the-point missives without scrolling.
NeoPoint 2600: about $200. NeoPad: $50. NeoPoint: (800) 714 4465, www.neopoint.com.
Moving Picture
Bang & Olufsen adds a twist to the war over the remote. Supported by a motorized stand, the BeoVision Avant TV rotates 70 degrees at the click of a button to face the easy chair or the Exercycle. The 30-inch screen's anti-reflective coating prevents glare, while a photocell on top adjusts the picture's brightness to match the room's lighting and the screen's orientation.
BeoVision Avant: $8,500. Bang & Olufsen: +1 (847) 299 9380, www.bang-olufsen.com.
To Dye For
The fotomat's fine for the plodding crowd, but Olympus' Camedia P-200 produces photo-lab-quality prints for a life on the move. The portable dye-sublimation printer vaporizes ink with pinpoint precision for smoothly blended 3- by 4-inch photos, with no trace of individual pixels. Charge the NiMH battery, pop in the flash memory card from your digital camera, and pick what to print from the 1-inch LCD screen. Forget same-day photos: Think same-minute-and-a-half!
Camedia P-200: $599. Olympus: (800) 622 6372, www.olympus.com.
Rough and Tumble
If you work in high places, Casio's EG-800 is the color PDA for you. With its shock-resistant and splash-proof casing, you can drop the handheld from 80 feet onto asphalt or spill coffee on it without regrets. This PDA uses the multimedia-friendly Microsoft Pocket PC operating system and can take temperatures anywhere from 23 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit. You should be so tough.
EG-800: $1,099. Casio: (800) 836 8580, www.casio.com.
Mock 5
For your second childhood, forget the Ferrari and the Lotus: Regress in style with a real-life version of Speed Racer's proto-anime car. Built on a mid-'90s Corvette platform, the fiberglass/carbon-fiber Mach 5 convertible captures eyeballs as it flies down the freeway, while the 400-hp GM engine gives you a reason to call yourself Speed. Don't dream it, drive it.
Mach 5: $72,000. Speed Racer Autoworks: +1 (714) 648 8913, www.mymach5.com.
Energizer
Manufactured for the Japanese market, Fujitsu's FMV-BIBLO LOOX T laptop lets you pack extra socks in your bag instead of spare batteries. The 533-MHz Transmeta Crusoe processor saves serious juice by buffering frequent operations in an on-chip RAM cache and operating without a watt-guzzling fan. The 7.3 hours of extended battery life are especially useful when watching DVDs on the 3.3-pound laptop's player - see if you can stay awake through the director's cut of Das Boot.
FMV-BIBLO LOOX T series: $3,399. Available from Dynamism: (800) 711 6277, www.dynamism.com.
Powder Play
Long line at the ski lift? Snap your Burton SPLT 66 snowboard in two and telemark your way up the slope. Four circular clamps and two plates hold the board together and release easily to create two ski-like halves. When it's board time, move the bindings to the downhill position, snap the halves back together, and have a blast dodging snowballs from the punks stuck on the lift.
SPLT 66: $1,028.99. Burton: (800) 881 3138, www.burton.com.
Arcadia
HanaHo's Arcade PC Cocktail Table lets you play classic videogames like Street Fighter II side by side the way their makers intended. Then again, joysticks at each end mean you can go head-to-head, Ms. Pac-Man-style. The cabinet includes a 17-inch color monitor and a compartment for a 200-MHz or faster CPU. An emulator turns ROM code from HanaHo's CD of Capcom originals into instructions your computer can understand. More than 3,000 additional games are available online - strictly under the table. Detail the cabinet with a few cigarette burns to make it pizza-parlor authentic.
Arcade PC Cocktail Table: $1,500. HanaHo: +1 (562) 483 1414, www.hanaho.com.
