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To: Charger who wrote (630)	5/16/1998 3:04:00 PM
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Thought this was worth a reprint. The two-pound computer, half the weight of a laptop computer, can be voice-activated and is just twice the size of a typical mobile telephone. It will retail for less than $5,000, Newman said. The mobile device, which with a 233 megahertz Pentium chip is more powerful than most office desktop personal computers, runs standard operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Unix. Users can make telephone calls, send faxes, and access the Internet, Newman said. The computer display will come in a variety of head-worn technology, such as visors, or it can be plugged into a standard monitor. Revenues at the company should reap the benefit from the manufacturing deal with Sony Digital Products. "We do expect significant revenues to show up in the fourth quarter," Newman told Reuters in an interview. These revenues will be shared with Britain's University of Southampton, which helped to develop the latest product in the emerging wearable computer, or geekwear, sector. Here's to an up Monday, Nigel