19" Monitor Goes Portable

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 16, 2000 @07:32PM from the where-and-how-much? dept.

Reader redial writes: "You've seen them before, the glasses that give you the impression of a 19" monitor several feet in front of your face. InViso's eShades have a nice twist. The lightweight glasses use a standard PC-Card or Flash interface. Plug these bad boys into your YOPY and attract all the babes." Actually, the site says that PDA support is still in the future, and needing a Flash or PC Card interface seems a bit of a turn-off, though in fairness that is also the power source. But these look like a cool combination of a) acceptable size and b) the magic acceptable threshold of SVGA resolution. Yes, please!

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Vapor by Daniel+Ashbrook · 2000-09-16 14:56 · Score: 5

Sadly, these are at least partially vapor. The compact flash and/or PCMCIA interface would be very attractive because it could potentially cut down on power. One obstacle to high battery life with portable computing is the many conversions that have to happen to get an image on your screen. Your processor sends a digital image to your video card, which then converts it to analog and ships it out on the video cable. The box for your HUD then takes the analog and converts it back into digital so the LCD can display it. If even one of these steps could be efficiently bypassed, it would cut power consumption dramatically.
Unfortunately, someone from my company called these guys up to see if they wanted to work with us, and they admitted that most of it was basically wishful thinking.