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The manufacturer's page is:

http://www.personaldisplay.com/english/f_whatis. ht ml

At $1000, it's pretty reasonable!

Santa, I want one ;-)

I have such a webpad: A Fujitsu Stylistic 1000: 486 CPU (fine for simple X / browsing), attachable PS/2 keyboard(I use the Twiddler II), VGA port (for CyVisor or Monitor) for when the 640x480 8" display isn't enough, radio pen, PCMCIA HD (270MB comes standard, 2GB available), 2 additional type II PCMCIA slots, IRDA, Serial, Parallel, and a 3750mAh battery lasts four or five hours on a charge. I'm running RedHat 7.0, but the cleanest install I've heard of is Debian. One can often purchase them surplus for around $100. HSC Electronics is currently out of stock, but you may find them elsewhere.

It doesn't seem to ve mentioned anywhere, but when I saw this Gizmo at Comdex, they was silkscreened with the name 'CyGate' on it, to go with the HMD that is called the 'CyVisor'. Talking with one of the enginers, I was led to believe that it was technically identical to the Yopy exceptiong no LCD display and it had built in circuitry to drive the head mounted display, with normally requires a converter box.

And among this parade of names is another company, Daeyang E&C, who appears to be a distributor or marking arm of GMate. And for those of you who care, the HMD LCDs are made by a US company by the name of MicroDisplay Technology. the HMD web site is at www.personaldisplay.com

The future developments page says a SVGA binocular version is due in July 2000 for US$1200. Pretty expensive but I think that's a lot less than the high-res Sony Glasstron.

we are evaluating for purchase this week
one, two, three