Hi Matt,
> Spacificly I want to write an audio email client, so that my
> Clie will read my email to me as I'm walking around.
I want this too, but not for PDAs, and with features to allow
pauses, back/forward paragraph/message, repeat last paragraph,
delete and save message, and so on, without emacs and keyboard.
> And after that an audio alarm for the todo list and datebook.
> "Matt you have an apointment in 10 minuets"
I'm struggling with the idea of a PDA as wearable, at least
by today's standards. Can you do multiprocessing, as in
having multiple things run at once?
> I'm thinking of using ViaVoice to output to file on my desktop
> and save the days email (and later alarms) in MP3 format on the
> memory stick.
Interesting.
> When PalmOS 5 comes out and works only on StrongArm HW the
> 'old' Palm devices will again drop in price.
StrongArm is my target, but PDAs are so limited in interfacing.
They are designed to basically only support one, or maybe two
peripherals siultaneously.
> PalmOS way of doing things is all about off loading processor
> intensive (like TTS) things to the desktop server anyway.
Desktop? I've heard about those <grin>. Mine are gone. If you're
depending on a desktop then you're not really mobile. If you're
not really mobile, are you really wearable?
http://wearcam.org/wearcompdef.html
The most salient aspect of computers, in general, (whether wearable
or not) is their {reconfigurability} and their {generality}, e.g.
that their function can be made to vary widely, depending on the
instructions provided for program execution.
> The only real problem that I see with it is a lack of
> ability to interacte with other hardware. Then again
> with it's serial interface and a BX24 I'm betting Doug
> could make it sing, dance, and do the dishes :-)
I'm running POSE emulator right now, and I really can't see this
as replacing the capabilities of my wearables. I need much more
CPU power, multitasking, multithreading, and lots of IO ports. I
am against the idea of needing 700Mhz for a wearable (or even a
desktop), but my vision is something that replaces the need for
having PDAs, laptops, desktops, even cell phones eventually, and
all other gadgetry like GPS etc should work with wearable. But
again the challenge is in paradigm shifting, both in the HMI and
the management of information. The software will hopefully help
me by being a real assistant, answering and screeing phone calls,
filtering email and other information, being a master database
of all things important to me, capturing information and other
experiences, auto searching through gutenburg texts, going way
beyond googling for information (and automatically), etc etc.
I'm still a million miles away from any of this, but I have done
a lot of groundwork, and ready to start laying serious bricks.
-- Doug
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