Seven-Ounce Linux 'Wrist PC'

An anonymous reader writes "A European research and development firm has announced a seven-ounce, wrist-worn wearable computer with a 2.2 x 2.8-inch color touchscreen. Eurotech's WWPC (wrist-worn PC) runs Linux or Windows, offers a wealth of standard PC interfaces (WLAN, Bluetooth, IrDA, USB, SD-card, etc), and has patented technology that puts the device to sleep when the user drops their arm. It can detect motionless user states, and serve as a location-transmitting beacon, thanks to a built-in GPS receiver and 'dead reckoning' technology. The company also claims six hours of battery life under 'fully operational' conditions."

Comments

A computer can function on 7 ounces???

[LeonGeeste]

How is that possible? Word processing takes 30 megs of RAM, minimum. Access the internet? That'll be a 100, plus maybe 50 megs of storage space.

Wait, you mean there was a time when word processing didn't require that much computational power? I'll be damned!

Spyware popups on Slashdot?

[jb.hl.com]

Offtopic I know, but anyway...

I just opened up this article in Opera (for the record, I have no other tabs open) and immediately I got a popup window, which in itself had a JavaScript prompt for WinFixer. WinFixer, for those who don't know, is a horrible spyware program which pretends to be a system tune-up program but is really fucking annoying malware that likes to pop up in your system tray every 3 seconds and demand you pay for it. This gets really annoying, really fast, and cleaning it up is a task in and of itself (I tried once but gave up after 3 hours and just reinstalled Windows 2000, then XP after many complaints with a warning that any more problems would get the person concerned straight back down to 2K...nothing since :)

Anyway, I digress. I guess the main point is: why does Slashdot have popup ads for known spyware? I would have expected this on many other websites, but Slashdot? No way.