For the chronically scatterbrained, high-tech hope can be at your fingertips

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Three electronic organizers and one laptop computer are evaluated for ease of use and number of features. Sharp's $300 Wizard includes all the standard electronic organizer features such as built-in calendar, phone number and address lists, memo pad and calculator. Optional slide-in cards provide language translation, spreadsheets and financial calculations. Casio's $200 to $269 Boss series features the same basic capabilities as the Wizard but include expanded phone number and calendar functions. The $180 to $300 Psion Organizers use an alphabetical keyboard like the Wizard but offer the programmability of a full-fledged computer. Optional program packs are also available. The $399.95 Atari Portfolio is the same size as the electronic organizers but includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program and electronic diary features.

Sharp Corp. (Osaka, Japan), Atari Corp., Psion Ltd., ATC, Atari Portfolio (Personal digital assistant), Casio Inc., Casio Boss (Portable computer), Psion Organizer (Hand-held data device)

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Organizers: microchips vs. loose-leaf

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'Electronic organizers' come in portable sizes - some are as small as a paperback book. Even so, they can store and manipulate considerable information. Two such devices - Casio's SF-9500 BOSS and Sharp's Wizard - are compared to popular leather-bound loose-leaf organizers made by Filofax, a British company. Filofaxes can be filled with various forms, making them flexible in terms of their possible uses. But now, electronic organizers have their own versions of forms - diaries, memo pads, calendars and expense-account calculators. And electronic organizers can download information from computers. Although electronic organizers are becoming very sophisticated, they still have a long way to go.

Equipment and supplies, Sharp Electronics Corp., Casio Computer Company Ltd., Information storage and retrieval systems, Note-taking, Note taking, New Product, Personal Information Management System, Casio SF-9500 BOSS (Portable computer)

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At Consumer Electronics Show, it's bells, whistles and microchips

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The 1990 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas lacked of many exciting new products. For the most part, the show featured familiar items enhanced by new features. Sony and other companies announced release dates for digital audio tape machines. Smaller, more portable cellular telephones and facsimile machines were also demonstrated. Other innovations included Blaupunkt's Travel Pilot, an in-dash compact disc/video system providing maps and direction to automobile drivers, and complete home automation systems that connect every electronic object in a house.

Household audio and video equipment, Innovations, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Consumer electronics industry, Consumer electronics, Trade shows, Consumer Electronics Show, Trade Show, State-of-the-Art, 1990 AD, Winter Consumer Electronics Show

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