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Intel Portable Dazzles
By WILLIAM McCALL AP Business Writer

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) - You may not be able to take a moon shuttle or spend a night in space like characters in the movie ''2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but the kind of thin computer pad they carried could be on shelves by the real 2001.

Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news), the world's largest chip maker, is testing a device about the size of an Etch-a-Sketch that taps into the Internet without a wire and can be passed around the house from husband to wife to kid to check the latest headlines, e-mail, stock quotes and even the school lunch menu.

''They'll have to come out here and pry it out of my hands,'' said Katherine Cowan, whose suburban Portland family recently tested a prototype that designers based loosely on the ''newspad'' in the classic 1968 movie.
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