Putting A Call Out For Game Enthusiasts

Mon., May 22, 2000

Compiled By Bill Sallquist

Your cell phone could become a virtual Gameboy, and soon.

While technological hurdles remain, online wireless video gaming is likely to become widely available in the near future.

Initially, the games won’t be as sophisticated as their counterparts designed for personal computers, but that will change over time.

The Dallas Morning News

* Flattened: Early navigators established that the world isn’t flat, but that’s the direction we’re headed, at least in the case of display panels.

Scores of physicists and engineers worldwide are racing to perfect new display technologies.

“Information is becoming ubiquitous and displays are becoming the vehicle for that to happen,” one scientist says.

Cox News Service

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