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1 compact disks and stereo equipment, > anything musical will rarely go , unused in a man’s home. j
Promising to be a big seller this year are home audio mini-systems. Relatively inexpensive ($200-$300) ] and able to fit on a shelf, they can be precious to the man with limited liv- | ing space. Boxed sets of music by pop- , ular artists are another good idea, j Can’t have too much of a good thing, right?
Digital camcorders are the newest ' video temptation, a product no father should be without. They’re evolving rapidly and dropping in price and can be found for less than $500. Display models sell for even less.
Computers and software are another good idea for that special man on your list. For less than $ 1,000 you can get a computer with enough power and memory for word processing, personal-finance programs, web-surfing and most games.
Or for the busy professional who’s always trying to do two things at once, consider giving him some speech recognition software. For less than $100, the program will allow the user to speak into a microphone and have their words appear in a word-processing document as if he’d typed them. This leaves hands free for other necessary manly tasks like changing
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