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Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ripe-for-the-hacking dept.

nerdyH writes "A new Linux-based portable media player (PMP) features an eyeglass-like head-mounted display with 800 x 600 resolution. Dreamax's Indicube i-800 PMP provides an experience similar to sitting two meters away from a 54-inch screen, the vendor claims. It uses an 0.44-inch eMagin OLED display, claimed to offer the smallest pixel pitch in the industry."

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  1. Vapour-wearable by Caspian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The realm of 'wearable computing' seems particularly prone to vapourware. For example, check out this awesome device, which has been babbled about for years, and which you still can't buy in stores. And this PMP thing... well, you can't buy it in stores yet either.

    Yawn. Wake me when it's available for immediate shipment, with an actual price tag.

    Seriously, I'm sick and tired of Slashdot stories slashvertising gadgets that ARE NOT EVEN AVAILABLE YET and may, in fact, never be. Like this damned thing.

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    1. Re:Vapour-wearable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The article says the thing is shipping in March, so not all that vapourware.

      Sadly, all the stores in my area are still in January, so it's not available and may never be.

  2. Re:Target audience by wattrlz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    AFAICT TFA didn't mention a specific price, but... can you afford the new corneas when you're the 1 in 1,000,000 on whom they botch the surgery, though? I'll stick to contacts, thank you!

  3. Re:My Prediction by Hucko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nah, Linux would be the biohazard symbol, being viral and all.

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