The physical limitation you mention is certainly there, but there is still room for improvement regarding light sensitivity and S/N-ratio of the sensors.
I'm also very sceptical about that.
but:
optics also get better, and therefore smaller.
quite a few very small cameras with good optics were recently introduced at photokina. I got myself a Lumix FX7 (5MP, 3x optical zoom, very small) a few weeks ago and I'm still quite impressed of the picture quality. one or two more iterations of optics-development and you'll see similar quality in camera phones (or phone cameras:) )
there's also some time to be gained by skipping intros and outros. that would free roughly 2 minutes/episode, giving you additional 80*2 = 160 minutes for trips to the fridge
as for the IE-thing you mentioned: poor you for being stuck withit!:-)
What you said might be true, but then again, that software could be run on a more powerful server. ...maybe on the slashdot-server itself. Of couse that would be a whole lot of additional traffic to handle and I don't know if that would be feasible.
wow, nifty gadget!
it's far from perfect, for a sunglass it looks quite bulky, and storage is limited (i wouldn't want to miss the 40GB my iPod offers) but it's the first device of that type (that i'm aware of), so there's certainly room for improvement.
what i would like to see is something similar without the mp3-player built in, but equipped with some wireless technology (the technology of choice at the moment would be bluetooth), acting as a headphone for any other device that needs audio output (mp3-player of course, phone, computer, tv,...). it annoys me constantly that i have to take a good quality pair of headphones for listening to music _and_ a phone-headset with me when both items could be easily build into one.
the numer one problem of such a (wireless) device is battery life. before something like this can't offer at least one full day of continuous operation it will not be successfull.
but i'm sure this issue can be resolved with some years of hard engineering.
then wait some more years until some (very) small laser projectors become available that can be attached to normal glasses...
I think the UBS-System (which I am using) is great because it uses a device which is completely isolated from the computer and therefore immune to keyloggers, trojans and other nasty tricks.
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Thank your employer for their paranoid policy and not samsung for bringing out a cool gadget!
The physical limitation you mention is certainly there, but there is still room for improvement regarding light sensitivity and S/N-ratio of the sensors.
I'm also very sceptical about that. :) )
but:
optics also get better, and therefore smaller. quite a few very small cameras with good optics were recently introduced at photokina. I got myself a Lumix FX7 (5MP, 3x optical zoom, very small) a few weeks ago and I'm still quite impressed of the picture quality. one or two more iterations of optics-development and you'll see similar quality in camera phones (or phone cameras
You didn't RTFA, did you?
there's also some time to be gained by skipping intros and outros. that would free roughly 2 minutes/episode, giving you additional 80*2 = 160 minutes for trips to the fridge as for the IE-thing you mentioned: poor you for being stuck withit! :-)
What you said might be true, but then again, that software could be run on a more powerful server.
...maybe on the slashdot-server itself. Of couse that would be a whole lot of additional traffic to handle and I don't know if that would be feasible.
wow, nifty gadget!
...). it annoys me constantly that i have to take a good quality pair of headphones for listening to music _and_ a phone-headset with me when both items could be easily build into one.
the numer one problem of such a (wireless) device is battery life. before something like this can't offer at least one full day of continuous operation it will not be successfull.
but i'm sure this issue can be resolved with some years of hard engineering.
it's far from perfect, for a sunglass it looks quite bulky, and storage is limited (i wouldn't want to miss the 40GB my iPod offers) but it's the first device of that type (that i'm aware of), so there's certainly room for improvement.
what i would like to see is something similar without the mp3-player built in, but equipped with some wireless technology (the technology of choice at the moment would be bluetooth), acting as a headphone for any other device that needs audio output (mp3-player of course, phone, computer, tv,
then wait some more years until some (very) small laser projectors become available that can be attached to normal glasses...
I think the UBS-System (which I am using) is great because it uses a device which is completely isolated from the computer and therefore immune to keyloggers, trojans and other nasty tricks.