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Re: Wearable Thinclient

True, but a thinclient is 100% useless if you are out of range, on a train,
driving throught the chunnel,working in the xray lab... etc... A thinclient
wearable has a use in controlled environments. The only problem is that a
wearable is in the most un-controllable environment, on the human body.
Therefore a useable wearable will have to do most of it's processing and
storage locally and then do the transfers whenever it has time/access. The
cellular/sattelite communications option is not a serious option for a
wearable unless you have gobs of cash, Military wearables probably use a
sattelite burst system, or a long range radio telemetry system while moving
as sattelite communication from a personal device that is moving is near
impossible.

I dont want thin or thick client... I want super-fat-gobs-o-storage server.

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: From: Tony Havelka <>
: To: 'Peter Cochrane' <>
: Cc: 'w-h' <>
: Subject: RE: Wearable Thinclient
: Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 4:15 PM
: 
: Agreed. So that brings us to the issue of transport, and cost thereof. 
In
: an office environment, one can be physically wired to a network or
connected
: through a local wireless system.  Costs associated with this topology
range
: from $0 to a fraction of a cent per megabyte.  Move to a cellular based
: system, bump that cost up to dollars per megabyte. Move to a
: sideband/wideband system, $10's of dollars per meg.  Satellite, even
more.
: The key to a thin client will be cheap access to the server.
: 
: - Tony
: 
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: Peter Cochrane [mailto:]
: > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 2:45 PM
: > To: liquid
: > Cc: 'w-h'
: > Subject: RE: Wearable Thinclient
: >
: >
: > On or off line all the time or sporadically, thin or thick, narrow or
: > wideband, with or without a display, voice or key I/O -
: > provided it brings
: > computing and communication power to me who cares? Pkey
: > ______________________________________________________________
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