Desktop Primping

| Tomohiko Tagawa

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<p><ain desktop</stt won�t do anymore. Like everything else in their lives, teens� work spaces must be accessorized to the hilt. Here are a few of the gadgets making setups stylish in Tokyo.</p>

<e Holder</stl phones must always be kept at hand, but parents think chatting interferes with studying. KD System�s Tinker Bell phone holder lets teens gab on the sly. Switch a handset to Silent mode and slide it behind Peter Pan�s tiny blond friend. If a call, text message, or email comes in, the Disney fairy lights up. <em>yen ($8) for holder</em

<ionary</stthe electronics capital of the world, paper dictionaries are obsolete. A must for homework, Casio�s EX-word Japanese-English digital glossary displays the meaning and pronunciation of terms typed on the miniature keyboard. Students switch between the two languages at the press of a button. <em>0 yen ($24)</em

<l Reader</ster a day pushing through crowds in trendy Shibuya, how does a girl muster the energy to read her email? The Mail Chara from Tokyo-based Sunlike will do it for her. The owl or bear doll plugs into a PC�s USB port and reads messages aloud in a sugary voice. Too cute? No such thing in Japan. <em>0 yen ($40)</em

<e</stfashionable <em>aru</emld be seen clicking through the Web with a standard mouse. Instead, shopping URLs and J-pop fan sites are fetched using Remex�s Scroll Puppy Mouse, a dog-shaped clicker with plastic ears for buttons. Talk about the dog days of the Internet. <em>0 yen ($10)</em

<ager</stdaily grind of commuting to and from school along with the rest of the city can be a real pain in the neck. Flopped over a desk chair, Nakajima and Dreams Come True�s Winnie the Pooh back massager soothes stiff shoulders and eases teen steam with four tiny vibrating motors. <em>0 yen ($23)</em

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