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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. Cool.... by The_Fire_Horse · · Score: 5, Funny

    porn on the train at last (and this time without angry guards and annoyed passengers)

    1. Re:Cool.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm pretty sure they'll still notice you jamming your fist into your crotch.

    2. Re:Cool.... by numbware · · Score: 5, Funny

      "jamming your fist into your crotch"

      I think you're doing it wrong.

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  2. My Prediction by DannyO152 · · Score: 5, Funny

    2008 will be the year of the Linux Borg Headgear.

  3. This is excellent by Malevolent+Tester · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can look like a complete tool without using proprietary software.

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    If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
  4. Target audience by Scutter · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How come these designers never realize that many of their target audience have poor eyesight? These types of things never fit right over glasses.

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    "Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
  5. 54" screen is well and fine by Zerth · · Score: 5, Informative

    But can it give me the equivalent of 17" CRT at arms length?

    Whenever I see these, I think "yay, monitor replacement" until I find out that, like most of them, it is just as fuzzy for reading text as a regular TV.

  6. ... finest pixel pitch may not be good by dsojourner · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've worked on micro display projects before --- and you don't want the pixel pitch getting too close to the wavelength of light -- which will be around 1/2 micron. Pixels smaller than a micron or so will result in dispersion of the light that is generated, limiting the quality of the image.

  7. This opens up whole new possibilities by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... as a guy who has a fair bit of difficulty scoring with attractive women, I am really looking forward to the possibility of banging ugly chicks while watching hot porn.

    Finally, technology that helps me in important ways.