On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 05:30:15PM -0500, Eric Laforest thus spake: > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:24:33PM +0000, R. Paul McCarty thus spake: > > There has been a recent surge of adds and products for cellular phones > > with web access, email access, etc. > > > > Let's be honest.. most wearables are built with desktop technology > > scaled down to at minimum pc/104 scale.. but with such vast power > > requirements for hard drives, fast processors, and displays that half > > your weight is batteries. A cellular phone weighs an order of magnitude > > less and doesn't need as much power. Of course this is mostly because > > it doesn't have a high powered processor capable of driving a desktop > > OS, or have enough memory to store anything more then a few addresses > > and phone numbers. > > The main advantage that cell phones have is that they are industrially produced > and built using the best techniques (BGA chips, multilayer boards, etc..) > available, while wearable users generally have to cruft stuff together > until it's useable. > > Given access to the same technologies, I'd say a decently powerful wearable could be scaled down to walkman (the bulky Sony Sport kind). Hmmm...here is an exact example of what I meant: http://www.pjbox.com/product.htm It's application-specific, but would have enough power to be general purpose. Eric -- 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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