Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Do d Winnipeg free january is electronics Industry plugs into buyer wants photo by Reid the Washington Post Las vegas amid the booming the careening the Flicker ing Wal sized to screens and the cacophonous video games of the consumer electronics Industry huge new products extravaganza Here sits a quiet Man who is rein venting the Book this time with out i think a lot about Johann go said Michael the president of electronics reaching into his pocket for his company latest its a 12ounce calculator like de vice that contains All entries and million words of the ran Dom House a refer ence giant that weighs 20 pounds in its printed when you realize that electronics can do what the printed Page its unbelievable where this technology is Weiner there Are electronic dictionaries at this show that not Only show you on the screen the word for hotel in but pronounce it for and look at my electronic Weiner pulling a Small plastic Box from his other its got the whole plus a and its the first Bible in history with a Builtin alarm clock and perpetual Calen weiners firm is just one of manufacturers of electronic Gim gadgets and gizmos Jam Ming this resort City at the consumer electronics the Gargantuan exposition of the latest High technology tools and ranging from a Telephone that automatically Lowers the vol ume on your stereo when you pick up the receiver to a chess Board that recites insults when you make a dumb move to a programmable chair that will Mas Sage any part of your body while playing stereo the electronics show is full of goods that Are intriguing and enjoyable but not with All the tens of thousands of nobody needs anything at the consumer electronics said John president of Casio the Arm of the watch and calculator we gratify not the wants Are sufficient to create a High tech Market estimated to produce billion in sales this Market for this product has no ceiling if the electronics Industry has guessed consumer wants this year will include a talking snap taken by a camera that rec ords a 10second sound bite with each picture a piano that plays 470 different including the voice of any orchestral instrument plus falling traffic or typewriter keys a clock radio that will play the sound of Waves or waterfalls to Lull you to sleep a pair of stereo speakers shaped like ancient chinese urns and a voice activated Telephone that will dial your mothers Winter Home when you Call mom in it is difficult to estimate if of the new products Here will be successful during the technology is moving so fast that Many of the Industry megabits of the 1980s didst even exist at the 1980 electronics the modern fax for want present Here 10 years ago last a million fax units were and the figure is expected to double this but almost everyone in the Indus try seems to agree that the hand held reference device the Trade name for electronic books that display text on calculator screens is Likely to be a major consumer item during the a fairly Large variety of the Small plastic devices is already on exhibit there Are English language dictionaries and Multi language translating diction bibles and reference of predicted that the Market for this product has no he said that his firm and other electronic publish ers have plans to produce pocket sized editions of big reference books like the physicians desk reference and the world As Well As cram books for the Scholas tic aptitude test and other National we have All the things you need to put big books into Little plastic he you need a Good Dat compression Alo Gorith that a system for encoding Large hunks of text into magnetic impulses on a memory you need cheap memory chips and cheap microprocessor chips to manage the display and search for Weiner and other makers of such pal sized books generally use a Standard plastic Container for each Book they with the text Franklin computers translation master dictionary was unveiled at electronics encoded on a thin Sliver of Silicon called a rom he bookstores will sell inter changeable rom cards that customers can insert into their Stan Dard handheld if you need to use the los Angeles phone you reach in your pocket and you have All the names right there on a microelectronic versions of books dont come cheap right hand held bibles run or de pending on what added gadgetry is built a electronics version of the random House scheduled to hit the Market this will Cost about five times As much As the printed ver the calculator like screen Dis plays four lines of text fairly Clear but will not show with the end of the Bell system the Market for Telephone equipment grew explosively in the and that trend seems Likely to there Are thousands of different models on display including phones shaped like Bat a Washington red skins a Ripe an 18inch Trout and a Block of Green there Are devices that will answer your phone in the voices of Richard Ronald Michael Gretta Daffy Duck and tweety there Are countless new Mobile Tele phones on the Market to accompany there Are numerous car fax this summer will see the debut of a port fax that weighs one Pound and is about the size of a cigarette the user can receive a facsimile Over any Telephone and read it through an attached viewer the size of a color television sets hitting the Market this year Range from the size of a deck of cards to a 120inch set Complete with stereo surround sound that is supposed to serve As the Core of a Home theater another hot new concept that is ubiquitous at this expo 15 mortgages 15 terms commercial and apartment 2nd mortgages minimum investment All properties located in Winnipeg and provide income sufficient to service 1 St and 2nd professionally monthly payments paid directly from property management rental for detailed please write or Call Curty management 7th 177 Lombard my r3b ow5 9431025 tax tips for Small business owners where Fine food service accommodation is a tradition newly renovated banquet 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