Hello All, Sorry I've been absent for a while. I built my new transitional wearable. It's a combo of a wearable and mini-laptop. I should say that it's almost done. I've put everything in a 5"x7"x2" plastic enclosure (CoolRunner II 300 Mhz, 10GB 2.5" drive, Dual PCMCIA slots, and every I/O possible). It weighs roughly 1lbs. The 6.4" VGA LCD is quasi functional and will be detachable from the main enclosure and extendable to 1.5'. The Keyboard is a wrist keyboard from L3 that I have built into the main enclosure. I'm working on adding a trackpoint for it as well. The only hold back is the elusiveness of the LCD inverter. It seems they have been on back order for over 6 months and will be for another 6 months. Everything is running off a Sony NP-F960. My hang up is - "so what?" I can buy a small laptop almost the same size and same power. I can make the enclosure smaller, but I have to give up some big features. What are we going to use these for? What application is going to be absolutely necessary that you need it on you at all times? Email? That can be done by cell phone or PDA. Who are we building this for and what are their needs? Now, I can answer all of those questions if we had wireless broadband in most of our geographic location, but that seems to be on the back burner. I can answer all of these questions as well if the voice recognition software was MUCH better and 70% affective, but that seems to be in a galaxy far, far away. Are we building in anticipation of what tomorrow brings? Are we building for knowledge or seeking financial wealth? I guess I have lost sight of why I started doing this and now I build because there is always a better mouse trap to be built. My problem lies in the possibility that there are no mice to trap. I'm terribley sorry for my rant, but I'm hoping some may offer answers to some of these questions. Back to the topic, when is the wearable TOO big? Is there a size cut off? Anyhow, I plan to take pics tomorrow of my newest monster and post them at my site again under the "notes" section if anyone is interested. Zach _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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