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Please don't be fooled. This crowd funding campaign is merely selling a pre-made, year-old device from Netronix. See here: http://armdevices.net/2015/01/... http://blog.the-ebook-reader.c... http://goodereader.com/blog/el...

Thanks for linking to us! I think that's a first!

Credit goes to Armdevices for finding the story: http://armdevices.net/2014/01/...

Chipsip also of course publishes its own press releases: http://www.chipsip.com/news/in...

This is Chipsips own comparison between their design and Google Glass (pdf) http://www.chipsip.com/archive...

To some commenters:
- This is not a product. This is a reference design which other companies will build smart glasses from. Some of the dozen or so manufacturers of prisma smart glasses out there, besides Google, might well have used this design.
- The specs top Googles Glass, but the manufacturer can of course choose to not utilize them fully, to make for example price more reasonable. Look upon this specification as the limit of what you can to today in this form factor – maybe carrying an external battery in your breast pocket?
- Google put a lot of effort in the software ("OK glass!", et cetera). Chipsip has a much simpler idea in the link above – to use the smart glasses basically as an extra screen to a standard Android smartphone.

- Jan Tångring, reporter, Elektroniktidningen (etn.se).

$25 ARM on a stick Plug that into my monitor's HDMI and using bluetooth and there's my "ICS" experience.

That's the last thing manufacturers want. They saw what happened to the PC hardware market, which was basically a race to the bottom on price.

Too late.

Chinese companies like MediaTek, Allwinner and RockChip are already producing and selling very capable low cost SoCs. Manufacturers are already using them in $150 phones that perform better than last year's premium handsets.

http://armdevices.net/category/chip-provider/mediatek/

I've said this before, but I don't think we're too far away from seeing very usable phones cheap enough to be retailing in blister-packs in supermarkets.

A lot of the tests that were done would have benefited from having Hard Float. Ubuntu ARM port does not have Hard Float. They should have used the Debian HardFloat port to get more accurate performance metrics of what the hardware can do.

I'm not arguing over semantics or fractions of percentages - Hard Float would have given an easy 20% increase in performance for some tests! For example here's an engineer from Genesi showing off the Debain Hard-Float work a few months back... 300% increase in some places?

Would you benchmark cars giving all the others high-octane fuel except one?

Please let it Soft-float fucking die already. It's horrible.

http://armdevices.net/2011/12/06/ice-cream-sandwich-preview-on-archos-g9/

looks plenty snappy to me.

Again scandinavians with an innovation.

look, a RETARDED person posting on slashdot

http://armdevices.net/2011/05/06/25-arm-powered-desktop-presented-by-raspberry-pi-foundation/

behold how social democracy (Called socialism in u.s.), govt. funded education, social security etc leaves a nation behind in development and that is despite compared to u.s.

and that retard is from US, what a surprise

this article talks about them not being expensive at all.

http://armdevices.net/2011/07/28/white-spaces-new-unlicenced-802-22tm-2011-standard-can-replace-all-carriers-and-provide-free-wireless-broadband-worldwide-for-all/

I suspect they have something a bit wrong though?

I also filmed a 14" 2Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 laptop at CES, see here: http://armdevices.net/2011/01/07/nufront-arm-powered-laptops/ In Europe Toshiba has released the best looking ARM Cortex-A9 Tegra2 Powered 10.1" Laptop, it's available for 160 euros for new (sub $200 retail price, consider Europeans pay approx 25% taxes). The only problem with that Toshiba AC-100 is current lack of decent laptop-oriented software, the Android that's loaded on it is not mature enough and Toshiba is very secretive about software update status. That Toshiba AC-100 has been rooted and impressive hackers have loaded Ubuntu on it but it's buggy for now, sound doesn't work yet for example, and it's risky to install, some people have bricked their units doing it. Shuttleworth said at recent Ubuntu conference that the Toshiba AC-100 is his favorite device. Much more may be coming soon in ARM Powered laptop segment. You can follow my site if you want news, or even post your news on it if you find something.

Sharp introduced an Ubuntu tablet 6 months ago, as part of their `Netwalker' line.

I think Always Innovating was supporting Ubuntu on their tablets before that.

Maybe there are others, also; still, each new one is nice to see.

The device is actually based on a design from AllGo Embedded Systems, a Bangalore based company. Check it out here

Check out the Pixel Qi LCD screen technology, provide e-ink quality ereading and very low power consumption when turning off the backlight, and you can turn on the backlight to get the full color qualities of regular LCD screens as well when you want to browse the Internet or watch some movies. All on the same screen: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/08/charbax-tests-pixel-qi-at-ces-2010/

It's as good as e-ink for reading. Check my video: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/08/charbax-tests-pixel-qi-at-ces-2010/ I tested it only for a few minutes though, I didn't actually read much on it, just had time to check it out outdoors and indoors at Computex 2009 and at CES 2010 as I was filming those Pixel Qi videos. It's very very readable and the whole 10" screen currently uses less than 500 milliwatts which means potentially reaching 50 hours battery runtime using an ARM processor to turn e-book pages on a 3-cell netbook-sized battery.

OLPC are working on something like this, and ARM Powered OLPC laptop, it is called the XO 1.75, it will likely be based on the Marvell Armada 610 or 510 processor, thus faster than this, and run 50 hours on a battery with the latest 100mw Pixel Qi screen, check my videos of that processor at CES 2010: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/18/marvell-slim-desktop-solution-ebox-based-on-the-marvell-armada-510-processor/ also running Chromium OS: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/14/marvell-runs-chromium-os-on-the-armada-510/

OLPC are working on something like this, and ARM Powered OLPC laptop, it is called the XO 1.75, it will likely be based on the Marvell Armada 610 or 510 processor, thus faster than this, and run 50 hours on a battery with the latest 100mw Pixel Qi screen, check my videos of that processor at CES 2010: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/18/marvell-slim-desktop-solution-ebox-based-on-the-marvell-armada-510-processor/ also running Chromium OS: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/14/marvell-runs-chromium-os-on-the-armada-510/

Surely if Google designs a perfect one and launches manufacturing of 10 million units, they can make them at $60 a piece and sell them on google.com/laptop for less than $100 also subsidized further by Google's online ads. The biggest cost of the laptop is the screen, using Pixel Qi the battery life can be upwards more than 20 hours even with a small cheap Laptop battery.

Check my other video with the founder of Epic Games: http://armdevices.net/2010/01/25/tim-sweeney-talks-about-unreal-engine-on-arm-powered-devices/ The full Unreal Engine and Quake3 type of OpenGL ES games and N64 and Dreamcast emulators can run on those ARM Powered Laptops.

Vote with your wallets. Maemo, the most open internet-tablet/smartphone platform currently on the market (assuming OpenMoko is dead). Not perfectly open, but a lot better than the Android.

From the 770 in 2005, to the N800 and N810 in 2007 to the latest release of the N900 this year.

There's even third-party clone which the platform needs to become truely mainstream.