(FORTUNE Magazine) – WALKING ON AIR Here's a stylish leather dress shoe that will give your step the cushioning hoopster Michael Jordan gets from his Nikes. Cole-Haan, the high-fashion footwear designer acquired by the athletic shoe maker in 1988, has put a slimmed-down version of the patented Nike-Air inner sole into an elegant new line of men's and women's shoes. Available in October, the Tensile Air women's pumps come in five patterns. The men's collection features wing tips, plain toe, and saddle styles. Cole-Haan says its gas-filled urethane sole is immortal and backs up its pledge with a lifetime warranty. Price: $210 to $265 a pair.

FAXESSORY Ham 'n' eggs, burger 'n' fries -- some combinations just naturally go together. Now add PC 'n' fax to the list, thanks to Ricoh's innovative DX-1 hardware and software, which allow a personal computer and a facsimile machine to function in tandem. With the DX-1 fax adapter and application program introduced in July, you can send and receive paperless messages or produce clear printed copies on bond paper. Your fax machine can double as a computer printer and work as a scanner to store articles and sketches in a PC's memory. Should it jam or run out of paper, the DX-1 will reroute messages to the PC for storage. Early systems that married the document creation and storage capabilities of the computer to the transmission abilities of faxes sacrificed computer memory and cost more than the DX-1. Available in DOS, Apple Macintosh, or Microsoft Windows formats, the DX-1 hardware lists for $799 and the software for $275.

HOLY LIFE SAVERS! This little sucker could score a hole in one for its maker, RJR Nabisco, when it hits candy counters in October. Life Savers Holes proved so popular in test markets, where they gobbled up 16% of all hard-candy sales, that RJR predicts they will knock off Tic Tac and Certs Mini-Mints to become the best-selling bite-size candy. The 50-cent packages come in six varieties, including ever popular Pep-O-Mint and Wint-O-Green. Despite its name, Holes isn't the cut-out remnant of Life Savers candy. It is made separately and molded to fit the middle of the ring-shaped original. And that's the hole truth.

MUTATIOUS TABLE In an era when companies are being restructured, isn't it about time the square old conference room table shaped up too? Whatever the shape of your business's organization chart, the new Entropy conference table system produced by office furniture maker Haworth Co. can be reconfigured to accommodate a variety of groups. A series of quarter-turns with a wrench converts the table into a racetrack shape for board meetings, a U for training seminars, a circle for tete-a-tetes, or individual sections for luncheons. Entropy comes in five wood grains and 20 finishes. Prices vary by size -- a ten-foot oval model sells for $6,800. But be forewarned: You can shorten the table, but the table won't shorten the meeting.