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Next Generation Xybernaut Wearable

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fashion-trends-I-can-get-behind dept.

shanenewsom sent in linkage to a story running on the BBC which talks about the new Xybernaut Poma. A little light on the specs, although the headmounted screen is 640x480 and it runs WinCE. But it really does look like the first practical wearable. It should be available in March. Update: 01/21 18:52 GMT by T : Reader Eureses points out that the display is actually 800x600 rather than 640x480.

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  1. Hey! It might run Linux. by dbarclay10 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw an interview with a head honcho from Xybernaut a month or two ago on the Space channel. They showed this thing, and I'm almost positive he said it would run either Windows CE or Linux.

    IIRC, though, it was still priced pretty high(several thousand dollars).

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  2. Linux and Divx by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 4, Informative

    Debian already runs on the SH4. The SH7751V they seem to have chosen has a 0.9GFLOP FPU so it's capable of pretty decent Divx encodes and decodes. This unit could make for a pretty decent portable DVR.

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