Design Features: December 8, 1994

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Tech Toys	Our selection of tech toys ranges from the inherently practical to merely fun. -- Anne Coyle, Associate Editor
Design Features The hottest new technologies and the latest design techniques to help you work efficiently and effectively.
100 Hot Products of 1994	We've tracked the hottest new products of the year, based on your votes. Take some time to review the best of the best; you never know what you might have missed.
PCI bus speeds peripheral communications	High-speed peripherals must get on a high-speed highway to make use of all their capabilities. The PCI bus is one such highway, but on-ramps in the form of off-the-shelf, general-purpose PCI I/O controller chips are few and far between. --John Gallant, Technical Editor
Draw workstation graphics into mainstream PCs	As PC-display resolutions increase and color depths bloom, higher refresh-rate monitors are becoming more common. A graphics design based on the traditional VGA architecture cannot begin to handle the data-transfer bandwidth required for such high-resolution, "true-color," high-refresh-rate displays. --Rhett Saugier, AT&T Microelectronics