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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesCOMMUNICATIONSA Page from The Comics
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- Dick Tracy's famed wrist radio may be making its way to
- retail stores. Last week the Japanese watchmaker Seiko
- introduced a digital timepiece that can display long-distance
- messages received over FM radio waves. Like conventional
- beepers, the $275 Receptor MessageWatch can signal its wearer
- to call the office, phone home or dial a specific number
- displayed on the face. Messages are relayed in about one minute
- through a system of phone networks, FM transmitters and a
- miniature receiver inside the watchband.
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- The receptor will be marketed by AT&E, a San Francisco-based
- telecommunications firm, starting next month in Portland, Ore.,
- and in 16 other U.S. cities by the end of 1991. Motorola and
- Timex plan to market a similar watch later this summer. The
- pager watches, however, will not have the voice capabilities
- of Tracy's timepiece anytime soon. Says Charles Skibo,
- president of AT&E: "That would run a battery down real fast."
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