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By Newsweek Editors

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Last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a less than spectacular success. Instead of new blockbuster items manufacturers mostly offered incrementally improved versions of such gizmos as digital music equipment. One sleeper item may be the Tropez 900DX digital cordless phone, made by VTech Communications in Beaverton, Ore. It has a range up to 10 times farther than a standard cordless, so you can take it all the way to the corner store. It also has a scrambler that keeps neighbors from listening in on you.

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