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Gates' Visit Might Pay Off at Comdex Tech Trade Show for South Korean Company.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003

By Kim Peterson, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 20--LAS VEGAS--Not everyone here at Comdex recognizes Bill Gates instantly. Ik-jae Lee, a sales director with Bestsoft, a South Korean company, said yesterday that it took him about a minute to realize that a visitor who had stopped by his booth to chat on Monday was the Microsoft chairman. At that point, he said, "I was very much astonished."

Bestsoft is at Comdex to show off a device called the Action Stick, which lets video gamers play a game with their whole body. Sensors in the stick, which stands about 4 feet high, analyze a person's movements and turn them into corresponding moves in the video game. A person playing a fighting game, for example, can kick and...

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