Home Sweet Home
BY ANITA HAMILTON

Whether you're balancing your checkbook in your home office or loafing around the living room watching pro wrestling on TV, there are plenty of techie gadgets to keep you in style.

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1 PhotoSmart P1000, Hewlett-Packard, $399. This inkjet printer spits out black-and-white prints at 11 ppm and color at 8 ppm, plus 4-by-6-in. photos from your digital camera. Insert a SmartMedia or CompactFlash in the slot on the side for lickety-split prints. StrobePro, Visioneer, $200. This compact, 30-bit color scanner doubles as a fax machine.

2 Video Blaster WebCam 3, Creative Labs, $80. Wave hello to clients with this sleek, cheap video camera that doubles as a "security camera" when it detects motion in the room.

3 Presario 3550, Compaq, $1,999. Tired of clunky desktop PCs? The 3550 comes with a slim, flat-panel screen and micro-mini tower with a roomy 8-GB hard drive, a 50-MHz Celeron processor and 64 MB of memory. A cd-rw drive is a cheap, easy way to back up large data files, and the free Net access from NetZero will fit into any budget. Color-coded cables for each part make setup a snap.

4 IntelliMouse Explorer, Microsoft, $75. When you're stirring the soup with one hand and using the other to chat online with a customer, it helps to have this versatile mouse that works on any surface--even your lap.

5 PhotoSmart C200, Hewlett-Packard, $399. Take quick pictures of the kids, or your product line, and post them to an online photo album or print them out on the companion HP printer (see No. 1. You can't beat the C200's price for high, 1-megapixel resolution.

6 CyberGenie, Ericsson, $500. Run a small business from your den with this cordless, two-line phone that forwards calls, takes voice commands and reads e-mail and faxes aloud.

7 Monsoon Speakers, Compaq. Slim speakers and a powerful subwoofer come with the 3550.

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