I don't have a picture of it, but I have a Palm PDA with a shattered LCD. I hesitate to replace it, or to buy other products such as laptops that have fragile displays. If "collapsible" means that this new LCD is more rugged, it's a great idea.
You NEED to be mobile? It's bad enough with all the idiots yakking on the phone while they're "driving to school, work, and home", let alone checking email! Drive now, talk (and download) later.
I'm currently reading "The Measure of All Things/The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World", by Ken Alder. It's about the effort during the French revolution to measure the distance from the pole to the equator as the basis for the standard meter. There are some interesting parallels with this GPS discussion, especially the parts about taking triangulations among the castles and forts on both sides of the French/Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, while the battles were going on all around.
Mechain, one of the astronomers, was able to determine some locations within one second of arc, or 100 feet -- in 1793! Who needs GPS?
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I don't have a picture of it, but I have a Palm PDA with a shattered LCD. I hesitate to replace it, or to buy other products such as laptops that have fragile displays. If "collapsible" means that this new LCD is more rugged, it's a great idea.
For about a buck you could get a surplus scalpel, and fix that heart right up.
You NEED to be mobile? It's bad enough with all the idiots yakking on the phone while they're "driving to school, work, and home", let alone checking email! Drive now, talk (and download) later.
I'm currently reading "The Measure of All Things/The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World", by Ken Alder. It's about the effort during the French revolution to measure the distance from the pole to the equator as the basis for the standard meter. There are some interesting parallels with this GPS discussion, especially the parts about taking triangulations among the castles and forts on both sides of the French/Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees, while the battles were going on all around. Mechain, one of the astronomers, was able to determine some locations within one second of arc, or 100 feet -- in 1793! Who needs GPS?