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This article reports on the DigitalLife exhibition at the Javits Center in New York City in 2004. This event is aimed squarely at young, hip consumers eager to outfit their lives and homes the latest in computer games, gear, and ideas. Best Buy's chief executive officer Brad Anderson spoke passionately at the keynote about the changes in lifestyle experience that have taken place in a single generation. He talked about the eye opening experience of going into a Hi-Fi audio store in Minneapolis to listen to stereo headphones for the first time and what a revelation it was to hear lifelike sound. Cathy Marting, senior vice president of Internet Telephony for AT&T, followed with a keynote that also talked about the past and the future, and how voice over Internet protocol will reinvent the telephone and give people back time. She showed a nice commercial, which seemed odd, then brought out the engineers from the commercial out to talk about the technology, which was actually kind of cool, although they failed at their imitation of spontaneity. She also talked about our screen centric lives, where managing devices is done through an endless set of displays that you need to learn. Wireless-Fidelity is a key technology for the next decade, she offered, which also fits into the voice over Internet protocol idea. Using technology to be reachable when and where we want rather than when and where the world wants to get hold of you is another point that she stressed as an important feature of coming devices and services.

This article highlights the products featured during the electronics exhibition CeBIT America 2004 held at the Javits Center in New York City. Much to the disappointment of the organizers, the show did not have many attendees compared to others held before it. Targus introduces a new line of USB Flash Drives. Transmeta's low power Crusoe processor showed up in booths across the show floor, and the list of companies who have adopted it for ultra portable computing attest to its success. The OQO is a fully featured computer sized to fit into a pocket, running Windows XP on a Crusoe processor. HP was showing the HP Forms Automation System optical recognition pen and paper microgrid system, which transfers writing to a computer.

Focuses on the TECHXNY & PC XPO, an exhibition of personal computers in New York City. Brands of personal computers exhibited in the event; Features of the Nixon D1 digital camera; Photographic coverage on innovative products.

Presents an article which discussed the 2001Techxny & PC XPO, a computer and technology products exhibition in New York City. Description of the Nikon D1x digital camera; Information on the Sony R505 laptop computer; Popularity of the Compaq iPAQ computer from Compaq.