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Affordable Wearables May Arrive By Christmas

Posted by timothy on from the stop-wincing-in-disbelief dept.

Rhinobird writes: "I was just catching up on some stuff and ran across this article on New Scientist. It describes a new Hitachi wearable computer which is planned for a release of Christmas 2001. More info can be found at Hitachi's site here(1) and here(2)." These will come with Windows CE officially, but unofficially, how long could it take to make them run other OSes as well? At $2000, wearables might finally hit a lot of toylists.

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  1. Windows CE is Open (ish)! by Plutor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How soon we forget! You can get the source to Windows CE and modify it to do whatever you want (not BSOD, for example). And IIRC, you can distribute any modified code, as long as it isnt for commercial use.

    Wouldn't it be much simpler to linux-ify Windows CE, than to CE-ify Linux?

  2. Affordable wristtops have been around for 2-15 yrs by michaelmalak · · Score: 3, Insightful
    http://www.onhandpc.com runs a variant of DOS, and has been available for 2-3 years.

    My current wristtop (that I wear every day) was purchased in 1986 and does log & trig and metric conversions.

    I'll never get used to what is being passed off as "wearable". To me, wearable means wristtop.

  3. Re:I'm afraid I don't see the market by janpod66 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Just look at the pda market. Palm and Handspring are on their last legs;

    PDAs are very successful. The problem that Palm and Handspring are facing is that they are trying to sell $50 consumer gadgets for $500, by trying to build on the widespread acceptance of their OS among handheld developers. Too bad for them that they are facing a competitor that's better at that game...

  4. Guide to Editors Posting Articles on Slashdot by SilentChris · · Score: 3, Insightful
    CmdrTaco: Ok, guys. Here are the rules.

    Step 1, post a few sentences that bears some semblance to the story:

    "Rhinobird writes: "I was just catching up on some stuff and ran across this article on New Scientist. It describes a new Hitachi wearable computer which is planned for a release of Christmas 2001. More info can be found at Hitachi's site here(1) and here(2).""

    Step 2, obviously post some anti-MS rhetoric. Slashdot readers love that:

    "These will come with Windows CE officially, but unofficially, how long could it take to make them run other OSes as well?"

    Step 3, post some mildly amusing but ultimately annoying "dept." comment:

    ""from the stop-wincing-in-disbelief dept.""

    Wrap it up with another anti-Microsoft spiel if you can. We post at least one Microsoft article daily, and a majority of our readers use IE, so it'd be best to piss them off. Don't worry about the sub-100,000 userID's: those guys will defend us. They never leave.