Step aside, Ted Turner: High-end television production equipment has reached the masses. The Trinity all-in-one PC-based video production system from Play Inc. gives talented students the tools to produce a news show with production values rivaling CNN. Starting at $6,495, Trinity handles live multicamera production, editing, sophisticated 3D special effects, painting, animation, and compositing on streams of broadcast-quality video.   What happens when a computer chip giant like Intel teams up with a toy manufacturer as big as Mattel? The answer: the Intel Play QX3 computer microscope, which connects to a PC via the USB port and displays still, moving, and time-lapse images on the computer screen at up to 200x magnification. Kids can store and manipulate the images on-screen using the bundled software, and the camera can even be removed from its base to capture unusual specimens, such as a friend's freckles. For $99, science lab just got a lot more interactive.

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