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Dick Tracy's New Linux Box?
An anonymous reader writes "The Zypad is a new arm-wearable computer right out of Futurama. It can run Windows CE or Linux and has a 400 MHz CPU, 64MB Flash memory, 3.5 inch screen. The Zypad leaves the user's hands free — it has no keyboard, just a touchscreen and navigation keys. Voice recognition is 'being developed.' It turns on only when you look at it, so it saves power. It has GPS and Bluetooth/WLAN/GSM connectivity. Price: 1000 Euro." Too bad it's not yet available for sale — that screen looks more useful than the one on IBM's Linux watch from 2000.
Somebody mispronounced 'doesn't work yet'.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
"Too bad it's not yet available for sale..."
Too bad it's not yet in existence. When I see a radically new gadget from some company I've never heard of whose press release touts multiple moves forward in different realms of technology, and all they have to show is a computer-generated graphic of the thing...well, I've never seen any such device ever show up to market. Not ever, in my memory.
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If it's right out of Futurama, why does the headline mention Dick Tracy?
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Publishing a price means that I can bid the asking price and get the product. If it is not available, then the price is "announced to be" and is currently non-existant.
Slashdot editors could learn a thing or two by spending a week in writing/journalist summer-camp. Day in and day out they write non-sensical blurbs, never mind they don't check-out the underlying articles, at least post a cohesive summary.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
How does it "only turn on when you look at it?" How would it know? That part just doesn't make sense to me
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Sorry, but in 2006, anything with only 64MB of flash storage space will not, contrary to the website's hype, revolutionize the way we use computers. Unless you're talking about a rising desire for austere minimalism.
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For Euro 1000, this thing should have some sort of antipersonnel weapon built in. When the price comes down, this might be practical as a daily computer -- I know that with wireless Internet on one at a $500 price point I'd spend a lot more time out of the office.
I doubt it. From the description, anything you can do on this new toy, you can do (probably easier) on a PDA-Phone. No one REALLY works on PDA-phones either. You work on a LAPTOP where you can type at a reasonable speed.
Granted, my Treo can be a lifesaver, with it's email/ssh etc. on the road, but I'd never want to spend an extended period of time typing on it. This device looks even worse!
And my question is this, why would you use this when you can have a PDA-phone which does ALL the same stuff AND has a phone. Even if this HAD a phone, who would use it? You certainly don't want everyone hearing all your conversations!
Looks impractical for most people.
On either wrist, you would want the keypad on the inside (medial side). If you put this on either wrist, the text (as displayed in the photo) would be upside down.
Did marketing do their homework on the photo for press release?
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Plenty of people have to work for a boss who is paralyzed from the neck up