Lean Machines

Rahul Shukla spent $7,600 on a television this yearand couldn't be happier about it. The 42-inch Fujitsu flat-screen TV hangs on the wall of his bedroom, taking up none of the valuable real estate that ordinary sets require in spite of its cinematic screen size. Shukla, a Hong Kong investment banker, is so pleased with the Fujitsu's picture qualityand the fact that it can be mounted above the destructive reach of his energetic 18-month-old sonhe's thinking of buying a second one for his living room. "There's a certain eloquence attached to the new technology," he says. Flat-screen TVs are "the big,...