Re: Palm OS PDA

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

I was thinking along the lines of having a head
mounted display and external input device. Although it
seems that if I want that I might as well look at
something other than a Palm OS PDA. Although I do
remember seeing a head mounted disply for the palm

---  wrote:

> How wearable do you want it?  The Tungsten can
> operate in a "landscape"
> mode, when held sideways.  This means it could be
> fastened to a wristband
> like an oversized wristwatch, so it'd be wearable. 
> The reliance on the
> touchscreen will limit your ability to remotely
> mount the screen,
> though...  Most wearables have a CPU core, and
> remotely mounted input
> devices and displays.
> 
> If you just want to play, Fry's Electronics has the
> Palm IIIxe (8M,
> PalmOS 4.x I think, Dragonball processor) on sale
> this weekend for $27.99
> after rebates.  It's hard to go wrong with that one,
> and if you search on
> eBay, it has the MOST peripherals of anything.  I
> have a Cirque
> capacitive touchpad keyboard for it, that I thought
> about remotely
> mounting for a PC based wearable, at one time.
> 
> In fairness, my Palm is so small that I usually just
> stick it in my
> pocket.  Can't say the same about my iPaq with
> expansion sleeve.
> 
>      -- Chuck Knight
> 
> > Does anyone know of any palm OS PDA's that can be
> > rigged up as a wearable without to much trouble?
> 
>
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