On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Vaughan Pratt wrote: >> We have shown that a wireless version can be done, but there is no >> sense in building something people can't afford. We are trying very hard >> to have this in production by the end of this year. We still plan a >> wireless version, but prices on components need to come down before this >> makes sense to do. We are looking at the Bluetooth technology as a low cost >> wireless possibility for the T3. > > Bluetooth is *the* way to go, the market life of any competing > personal-area wireless approach coming on the market today will be > one or at best two years. A Bluetooth twiddler will be able to send > scancodes and/or ASCII bytes to all Bluetooth-capable devices, which > combined with the economics of Bluetooth modules (coming in at say $25 > once volume gets under way and then sliding down to $10) will make all According to wearablesnews.com, Bluetooth is now $5 for everything except the external ROM, the antenna and the crystal (as announced recently at CeBIT): http://www.wearablesnews.com/index.cgi?type=news&state=article&artid=564&metaforum=110&forum=1&user=48 Cambridge Silicon Radio: http://www.cambridgesiliconradio.com/ -Chris -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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