Alt Text: A Geek Yearns for Yesteryear's Noisy Gear
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A grinding floppy, a screeching modem, a clacking dot-matrix printer ... these nostalgic computing sounds bring back memories of simple, nerdy pleasures. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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In high-tech Japan, an antiques dealer pioneers a new way to listen to digital music -- by piping the tunes through tube radios. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo.
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The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.Photos: Sixty years of transistors
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What was the last sound your computer made? It may have emitted a chime when e-mail arrived, or a heraldic swish when you started up Windows.
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC
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By JONATHAN SIDENER Copley News Service  If you asked most Americans in 1985 whether they had any use for a PC with a modem and a hard drive, you would have met with a lot of laughter and blank stares.
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What kind of things do you want to be truly portable? That&#39;s become an interesting question now that so much is digital in our lives.
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Plus: Hot gadget preview at CES 2005 Awards. [News.com Extra]
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So far, three-year-old Ambient Devices has sold fewer than 60,000 of its products. Yet the company fascinates me because it is working on the frontier of making computers more intuitive. -The Washington Post
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By Paul Gromosiak  I must admit that I am a bit of a Luddite, but I have accepted my fair share of technology in my daily life. What concerns me is how rapidly technology seems to be taking complete control of our lives. Once our servant, I think it is now our master.
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For worn-out electronic gear, the end of the road could be a Hewlett-Packard recycling plant in Roseville, Calif.Photos: HP's hardware graveyard
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In the old days, before so much time was eaten up by time-saving gadgets, you could check all your communications in one place -- your mailbox.
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Nerdy neckties are the new "geek chic." Read more on Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Some months ago I started collecting the pieces I needed to build my own 64-bit computer. I'm not a complete stranger to building machines, I've put together a dozen or so during the past twenty years, but it's been quite a while since I started one from scratch, and my experience with this machine was more instructive than it was meant to be. Nevertheless, at long last Studio Dave has gone 64-bit crazy. Well, not really crazy, but certainly more than mildly enthusiastic.
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A gallery of inventive DIY mods, from typewriter-inspired computer keyboards to a clockwork Stratocaster.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.
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In a special double issue of Gadget Lab, the gang looks at incredible noise-cancelling headphones, a tent you can pitch in seconds, a secure backpack for all your expensive gadgets, and more.