At 09:44 AM 11/4/02 -0800, you wrote: >On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:14:23PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> Then build one. It won't take that much time or effort. It might be >> cruder than what you wanted, but it certainly isn't *that* >> difficult... > >I suspect the issue is money, rather than time or effort. The issue is that I want is very like the OQO, or Antelope, model -- and I can't make anything like that myself. Maybe some of you can, but I don't have the tools, the experience, or the desire. (Even if I wanted to, just getting someone to agree to drive me -- not capable of sitting in moving vehicle, let alone driving -- to a hardware store is a major effort.) I won't have access even to the tools until I travel (maybe next spring?) to the lab where a friend and I are currently plotting a research program to investigate the intersection of "informatics" and wearable computers and cognition... and that lab is several hundred miles from where I currently live and work. Meanwhile, Antelope seems to be gearing up almost to the point of selling what I want, and OQO can't be far behind. (Antelope, which licensed IBM's design, originally was reporting it expected to come to market this quarter or next. OQO announced earlier, but originally reported expecting to come to market in the first 2 quarters of next year; besides, they're design-ware, and I'm not sure they have a partner on the manufacturing end yet.) So I could spend way too much of my time over the next couple months, and end up with a crude, patched-together mess just as the neat, complete mass production version hits the retail shelves. Why would I do that? As to money, I don't expect to buy one for myself... that's the point of writing grants, right? But also, OQO originally estimated the complete cost -- dongle, expansion interface, and all -- at about $1000. I'd pay that (I'd raise it if I had to) -- wouldn't you? I might even go $2000... for a documenter (or, as I am now, professional grant-writer) that's less than a week's income; well worth the write-off, and entirely justifiable as an expense! Cheers -- Carol -- 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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