(FORTUNE Magazine) – DESKTOP COLOR COPIER This digital desktop machine can work a triple shift as color copier, printer, and scanner at about one-quarter the price of most free-standing units that perform the same functions. Designed for use by small groups -- say, your marketing department -- the Canon CJ10 Color Bubble-Jet Copier produces high- resolution, full-color copies in 93 seconds. The copier alone costs $6,995; add an intelligent processing unit (IPU) for another $2,700, and the CJ10 is ready to print or scan documents using a Macintosh or IBM-compatible PC with Windows. (A more expensive IPU selling for $5,500 will be needed to run software for existing Canon color copiers.) The CJ10 mixes four colors of ink to create 256 shades of each color, producing quality comparable to that of free-standing machines. Documents can be printed or copied on letter- or statement-size paper for about 50 cents per page. The CJ10 also makes colored labels and overhead transparencies. Accessories include a film projector ($1,250) that lets you copy from 35-mm slides or negatives; a video adapter ($1,800) for images from camcorders or still videocameras; and the CJ10 Intelligent Editor ($1,500), which lets you change colors or erase part of a document. The machine will be available in June.

MULTIMEDIA DISCMAN Listen up, infomaniacs! Sony has added sound to its portable CD-ROM Data Discman to give it true multimedia powers. Combining audio with text and graphic images, all stored on a three-inch optical disk, the Multimedia Data Discman Electronic Book player is especially handy for teaching applications such as language programs. It also lets you enjoy talking books when your eyes are otherwise occupied, and adds zip to reference works. Users can plug in headphones or connect the player to a TV or speakers. The unit comes with three disks: Passport's World Travel Translator, which translates over 1,000 phrases aloud in six languages; the best-selling novel Sliver, by Ira Levin, in text and audio; and Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia, with 13,000 entries and 30 minutes of sound. It can also play the 28 existing Discman disks that don't include audio. Look for the Multimedia Data Discman in June for $550. A portable printer that gives you hard copies of information screen by screen will be available in August for $199.

PIVOTING SHAVER Men who want to avoid both the muss of wet shaving and the fuss of positioning an electric shaver at just the right angle to the face have a new option. Braun's Flex Control shaver conserves elbow grease with a pivoting head that stays at the correct 90-degree angle to your skin whatever the position of your arm. The platinum-coated foil head is mounted on a cradle that lets it swing up to 17 degrees in either direction. Flex Control competes with rotary ''floating head'' shavers by Philips (Norelco in the U.S.), which yield when pressed against the skin. Braun's new shaver comes in three models, priced at $99, $129, and $169. The most expensive has an LCD screen that shows how much battery life is left (charging for an hour gives about 14 shaves) and when you need to recharge.

SQUARE BALL You won't have to follow this bouncing ball too far -- being square, it can't roll away. Yet Q-BLE, by MarvLee of North Lindenhurst, New York, defies geometry by rebounding just as if it were round. The secret lies inside that cube of soft polyurethane foam, where a conventional round rubber ball lurks. Bounce Q-BLE hard enough and its corners compress, letting the round ball inside do the work. When it bounces, the cube spins, producing a strobelike visual effect not found with your everyday sphere. Q-BLE measures two inches square and comes in three Day-Glo color combinations. Price: $3.99.