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Re: consumer wearable by Christmas?

I'm not sure on power consumption, but I think it is fairly low 
comparatively, the CPU is RISC and radiates
about 1.5w in heat dissipation.
If converted to a portable application the internal power supply (which 
converts the 110 or 230 volt mains
current to three DC voltages: 3.3V, 5V and 12V) could be discarded and 
replaced with a regulator to attain
these voltages from a 12vdc source.

-Matt.

At 20:48 1/08/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah but what about power consumption??
>
>Interesting idea though...
>
>
>Russell
>
>
>On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matt Gleeson wrote:
>
>:Linux has indeed been ported to the Hitachi SH-4
>:(http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/).
>:The Sega Dreamcast uses the Hitachi SH-4 as its CPU (Hitachi SuperH SH-4
>:RISC CPU @ 200MHz).
>:I have been going to mention the possible use of the Dreamcast for wearable
>:purposes for a little while now,
>:as it has many features that would serve the purpose of wearable quite well.
>:It is a fairly small unit (could be made smaller by custom casing etc),
>:already has a composite video out, also
>:has straight VGA out capability, can interface both keyboard and mouse via
>:PS/2 to DC controller adapter,
>:has built in "GD-ROM" capable of reading normal CD media, is able to
>:interface to IDE devices
>:(via a hack: http://www.ma.nma.ne.jp/~ikehara/dc/dcwdc.html)
>:and has an ethernet adapter available after market for the unit (or there
>:are hacks out there to use standard PCI,
>:I believe) - and the thing comes standard with a 33.6kbps or 56kbps modem
>:(depending on country I think).
>:
>:And let's face it - what could be better than being able to have a game
>:anywhere we want as an added bonus? =)
>:
>:Regards,
>:
>:-Matt Gleeson.
>:
>:
>:
>:
>:At 12:29 31/07/01 -0400, Thomas Edwards wrote:
>:
>:>I'm sure someone will port Linux to the Hitachi SH-4 Risc, if it hasn't
>:>happened already :)
>:>
>:>-Thomas
>:>
>:>On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Carol Stein wrote:
>:>
>:> > I am NOT attracted to a commercial wearable with Windows
>:> > CE!
>:>
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