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New YOPY Cousin To Use Head-Mounted Display
Dan Mønster writes: "G.mate, the company behind the Linux based YOPY
PDA, have given details on a new PDA -- this one with a head mounted
display, but otherwise similar to the YOPY.
The site also has a lot of new pictures of the YOPY." Check out the neat swoopy camera module, too.
Question is, can they make the Yopy similar or lower in price than the similarly-spec'd iPAQ? And when can we get our hands on one?
One of the bullets on the features page is "Strong CPU of High Performance". I think I had that card in MTG but it was banned shortly after it was released...
My other
Why can't Oakley make a decent "cool" wearable set that hides the wires or is wireless, light, and provides basic text or vector graphics? That would be pretty sweet. The problem will all those wearables is you look like a goddamn freak with them on, unless you're a doctor in a hospital or something. If oakley or another sunglass manufacturer could get in the game, you'd have something that was a hell of a lot more trendy.
This also begs the question, is there any kind of standard protocols for head mounted displays? I don't imagine so, but it would be nifty if something could be established to provide a wireless link to the device you're using for a data source (be it a palmpilot, wearable, or even a cell phone). For the first generation of true wearables, I'd be happy just to see a good-looking, extrememly light product that did extremely crisp text display and maybe primitive vector graphics. I could use something like that for all sorts of memos and related information, not to mention it would make a great display for driving - speed, et al - and racing, too.
Too much emphasis on fancy right now.. take a lesson from the Palm; Start simple, and do it well.
..don't panic
that doesn't look like windows CE ... obviously you haven't use linux lately ... most WM's have a start button now and a clock in the corner ...
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
I'm sick of hearing about this thing. We've been hearing about this thing on /. for over a year, haven't we? All those so-called "photos" look like artist conception renderings to me.
GMate, ship or shut up!
So far, Gmate has had trouble just getting the Yopy to ship even. Lets see gmate get the yopy shipping before hyping up another vapour pda device. If you follow the yopy mailing lists, most people have given up on it for the Compaq iPaq, a device that is available right now, can run linux and wince, and has support via handhelds.org.
Ohboy, I'm tired, and I'm going to have some real fun with this.
How can you demand an extremely trendy, light, crisp, wireless solution from Oakley (of all people), but then advise them to not stress on anything "fancy" and to start simple.
Ok.. not to diss Oakley - they rock - but sunglasses aren't rocket science. They might make it SEEM like rocket science, but they're basically colored plastic with nifty colors. I think they may have just started offering polarizing lenses recently. If you read my post - I wasn't refering to the container of the HUD when I was talking, it was the HUD itself. 80x20 or even 40x20 or something more primitive, ascii display. That's a good base target. Most of the commercial and military offerings are insano expensive, and a large part of that is the resolution of the optics.
I suppose you would also like to see it Extremely Cheap as well why they are at it.
Your definition of cheap and my definition of cheap are most certainly different. HUD technology isn't that exotic. There's lots of different ways to do it. I'd settle for "available on open market" or "possible to interface to without custom electronics", even.
There are these things called Post-Its (most chicks call them "stickey's" so you might also know them by that name), they kick ass for memos and related information.
*tee hee* You're so smart and witty! Math is hard! Let's go shopping!
We need to reduce the amount of distractions for the morons driving today, not give them another reason to rear-end, swurve into, and generally get their minds off the road. I can just see the tech-sauvy driving to work wearing this thing checking what meetings are on the schedule to miss and talking on his/her cell phone
Here's where you go from person missing the point of my post to being an absolute ignorant moron. I autocross on occassion and taking your eyes off the course to check RPMs is a problem. Do you know why fighter pilots use HUDs? Or why high end cars are starting to come with them? Or, for that matter, why Kenwood offered a consumer HUD to run their car audio? That's so you can get important information - such as speed, RPM, engine temperature, alerts for road temperature (near freezing), etc etc ET AL so you don't HAVE to take your eyes off the road. Anyone who does their Email or schedules while driving has an appointment with Darwin.
Besides, for the sake of arguement if I want to talk on my phone on the freeway, fsck you. It's legal, and until someone says otherwise, there's a place and time when you can use a phone, and when you can't. Millions of people do it every day without problems. Cell phones don't make ignorant drivers, just like beer doesn't make drunk drivers.
Cell phones and HUD technology are completely different. HUD technology can make driving a lot safer - and maybe make my life a little easier.
..don't panic
If you're interested in wearable computing, there is a very detailed FAQ here - it even tells you how to turn your Palm Pilot into a wearable PC.
Free Anne Tomlinson!!
this one with a head mounted display
Great, one more reason to run randomly around the house slamming into walls.
Dirty Pirate Hooker
For someone who's had a Palm Pilot (the original 512 kb one) and has played with some future generations of these PDA's and dislikes them, I can safely say I'll not be using one in the near future, even if it has a head mounted display.
Sure, the new displays makes it closer to the ultimate geek device and I would like to play with it in a non-public place if it had a decent resolution and decent processing capabilities, but nothing beats a laptop.
If I need decent processing capabilities, I can wait and get to a desktop. If I'm on a plane or on the road and don't want to waste time, I can certainly carry something as heavy and big as a laptop. If I'm bound to stay up all day and can't handle something as big as a notebook computer, I use paper.
Am I that different from the rest of the world?
I don't think I'm alone when I say these small machines are unpractical, even though most people claim that's exactly what they aren't.
How sure are you guys that you haven't just followed marketing schemes all along?
I agree that the technology behind these things is very nice indeed and that these are very well built machines, but do you truly need them?
Flavio
Hey! It's great to know that I can still blow up demons while on the subway to work. Now, everyone imagine a really good motion sensing input device, put on those goggle things, and really freak out everyone on public transit as you dodge fireballs and peek around corners looking for zombies and gatling-gun wielding mechanical spider-brains!
It may look like I'm doing nothing, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away.
--Scott Adams
While I don't doubt that a choice number of highly drool-worthy prototypes have been put together at great expense to assist in the wooing of venture capital and boosting the geek factor of the principals of this organization, I have to wonder when and if they plan to get even a remotely affordable and relatively available model of any Linux based PDA on the street, where it counts.
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Can you get this thing to run WAP? (Site is
Personally, I don't need a PDA now and I'm willing to wait a little bit longer until the first Linux PDA comes along (or any other interesting non-WinCE PDA).
I just refuse to buy a WinCE PDA when my first action would be to replace the operating system.
There is no WinCE license fee for YOPY.
Is this true? It sounds quite unbelievable. Do you mean one can buy an iPAC without a preinstalled OS?