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To: Bux who wrote (1257)	12/15/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: C Nelson Reilly	Respond to of 12235

OT OT XMas Product Review My wife's out of town and a package arrived today with one of my Xmas presents. I immediately opened the sucker and have been playing with it ever since - the IntelPlay QX3 Computer Microscope. Some kind of high tech toy collaboration with Mattel. If I would've had one of these as a kid I'd be dangerous right now. Has 10x, 60x, and 200x magnification. Software is very youth oriented (recommended ages 6 and up; you can add music, make videos of the images, do time lapse photography, add text, graphics, etc). The microscope connects via USB and also comes out of the base so you can use it as a kind of high magnification digital camera. If you hold it up to your eyeball at 200x and get it focused right you get an image on your computer screen almost as scary as that surgery channel on cable. All in all, it's a pretty cool toy for about $90. I have immediately initiated scientific experiments using the QX3 and will report my findings to any and all who are interested. Experiment #1: I'm making a time lapse video of a single share of Q. We'll see what it looks like a month or two from now. Experiment #2: For the past two hours I have been scanning a New York deli-thin slice of a bond trader's brain searching for a molecule of testosterone or optimism. So far I've found neither, but will alert the thread if the moon falls out of the sky and the dead start crawling out of their graves with malicious intent. Yours in queasy quasi-pseudo-science, C Nelson Reilly

To: Bux who wrote (1257)	12/15/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12235

You forgot the part where Maurice told you that it was installed by Motorola. If Motorola couldn't get CDMA infrastructure right years later, why do you think their first big job was a system to be proud of? The infrastructure was probably part of it.....but I dont think you can ignore the effects of inferior handsets and the lack of roaming into China. I think we have cured the first this year (though I would still like to see a WAP CDMA handset)....and hopefully we will get to the second sometime next year. I think there are somewhere around 400,000 CDMA subs in HK....cant remember where I read the number. Slacker