Sure, when I first got it I was excited by all the applications, but I soon grew tired of them and the small, 160x160 screen.
This ZIRE seems like a Palm III, except with a rechargeable battery, and no backlight. So, it's useful for lists, notes, and the occasional poorly ported game, but beyond that, it's mostly a novelty.
I agree with tps12, it's not very useful for children, I would suggest a much more useful handheld.
in our Sun, twice as common as Carbon, though dwarfed, it is true, by the amount of hydrogen and helium. I suspect other solar systems have similar ratios.
in the universe combined in a gravitational well, hydrogen and oxygen. Given that we've found water on tens of our solar system objects (Mars, comets, Europa, etc), the only surprising thing would be to not find water in another solar system.
if this information trickles down. I think it woudl be a great thing for our environment, and for third world countries, is sailing ships could be made using this new technology that would be as fast and as reliable as turbine ships.
I believe the Japanese have experimented a little with this, and a sailing merchant ship plays a major role in Kim Stanley Robinsons ecotopia book set in California (I forget the name).
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This ZIRE seems like a Palm III, except with a rechargeable battery, and no backlight. So, it's useful for lists, notes, and the occasional poorly ported game, but beyond that, it's mostly a novelty. I agree with tps12, it's not very useful for children, I would suggest a much more useful handheld.
adding fancy neon tubes to anything makes it faster.
in our Sun, twice as common as Carbon, though dwarfed, it is true, by the amount of hydrogen and helium. I suspect other solar systems have similar ratios.
in the universe combined in a gravitational well, hydrogen and oxygen. Given that we've found water on tens of our solar system objects (Mars, comets, Europa, etc), the only surprising thing would be to not find water in another solar system.
if this information trickles down. I think it woudl be a great thing for our environment, and for third world countries, is sailing ships could be made using this new technology that would be as fast and as reliable as turbine ships.
I believe the Japanese have experimented a little with this, and a sailing merchant ship plays a major role in Kim Stanley Robinsons ecotopia book set in California (I forget the name).