>This goes out to everyone: > >What is your current wearable configuration and is it based on current >technology? > >- Tony A NetWinder in a metal over-case (impact/shck protection) in a thigh-mount configuration with a gel-cell lead-acid battery in a fanny-pack. Current I/O is done through a Compaq 286/LTE running Tunix, the best damn DOS terminal emulator I have ever used. This is useable, but way too bulky...and a waste, the 286 could make a decent "super-portable" using Minix as an OS and a few minor modifications. While I could use a shoulder-strapped, modified regular "mini-keyboard" (the Happy Hacking one comes to mind) or a Twiddler, there is no currently available HMD that is useable/affordable...what I really need a HMD that can do 80x25 text *minimum*. I don't care much for graphics, but the text is utterly necessary. The general design that Rhemi suggested a few days ago was pretty good. An intelligent frame buffer accessed via serial/parallel interface with a resolution in the 640x480 ballpark would serve most peoples' needs I bet...along with being utterly flexible, controllable and efficient both in terms of data transfer and power consumption. It would have a high potential for Hack Value. :) Of all the HMDs I researched, the P4 still seems to be the apex with the M1 close second, losing out only in resolution and contrast. (But comparing flat LCD to scanned LED is unfair, I conceed.) All others are too bulky/power hungry/expensive/fragile or simply not available to the general public. If you could make a VT320 in a rugged HMD form factor, I'd buy it there and then, even if its' cost was close to a 1000$CAN. Perhaps the needs of the market/community could be better served by keeping the M1/M2 as a graphics HMD for those who need it and can afford it while producing a small, cheap, robust, crisp, text-only HMD for the (I presume) majority that do not need graphics for daily use. A VolksViewer of sorts. ;) -- Eric LaForest Nascent Linux Borg -www.ncf.carleton.ca/~di458- #define Hacker !(Cracker) //FYI: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon Breaking into computers does not make one a hacker, for the same reasons that hotwiring cars does not make one a mechanic... paraphr. from ESR -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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