03-20-2004, 03:16 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Toshiba: Unveiling Things Left and Right at CeBIT
Toshiba, apparently possessing more veils than a shy belly dancer, has been taking the wraps off of many interesting devices at CeBIT this year. Next up: the Wristwatch PDA!
"The Wristwatch PDA...offers a fully functional high-end PDA in the comfort of a modern digital watch. It uses a wide screen hi-definition display for videophone conferences. It will integrate with your other Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices, [and] it will even broadcast to the nearest WiFi TV or smart display."
Not surprisingly, Toshiba seems to be pushing devices that use their tasty new 0.85-inch hard drive. According to Toshiba, these new concepts "are a vision for the �digital human� of tomorrow". That explains the model with the binary skin problem, but does little to explain why their mockup department put a Palm OS on the screen. :roll: Hello, Toshiba? Clues available for .25 in the foyer. :mrgreen:
What do you think about this idea? Can you put enough screen real estate on the wrist to have true PDA functionality? If you could, would you want to wear it?
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03-20-2004, 03:36 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Hmmm, it looks uncomfortable, rather long and constraining wrist movement. Apart from that, it looks fine. :wink:
I think that wide screen is rather ambitions in this context. :?
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03-20-2004, 03:40 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Wow, that looks pretty cool...except for the Palm screen...Toshiba should have known better.
Wrist PDAs have been tried before, but they always end up having less features with a higher price.
This looks like it could work. I don't know if I'd want to wear something so wide, though. Five Palm icons is pretty wide. Also, there's the issue of screen protection...a glass touchscreen on your wrist is just begging to be hit.
If this device ever came to market, I'd certainly give it a look. Wearable technology is the future, but nobody's gotten it right yet. If Toshiba do, they could have a winner.
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03-20-2004, 04:03 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
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A display like that may work for icons, but any kind of real text (anything longer than most RSS feeds) would be a pita to deal with, imo.
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03-20-2004, 04:16 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2004
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It also doubles as a brace if your break your wrist! :lol:
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03-20-2004, 04:19 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2004
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palm os may be on the mock up because they plan on using it for the device.
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03-20-2004, 04:45 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
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I think they may use Palm OS finally. PPC only support 240*320 and 480*640, I think 3:4 is not the good ratio for this device. Another option is use WinCe.net, which is too complicated for this device.
If this concept turns into a real product, Toshiba has to write an OS or choose a simple OS, Palm OS may still be the best choice.
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03-20-2004, 05:46 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Dork wear. No way!
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03-20-2004, 06:26 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2005
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I think the only way to have an effective, usefull wrist PDA would be to have a small screen and a flexible OLED screen that rolls out, maybe with some sort of hard back that telescopes out. This giant device won't be popular enough to cover production, but then again, they know that and probably are just releasing it like so many companies do, to prove a point or show their ability.
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03-20-2004, 05:42 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2006
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This is really cool, my first use for it would be a GPS (Bluetooth) while crusin on the motorcycle. I've been trying to figure out away to safley mount my iPAQ 36xx and GPS to my motorcycle.
Palm yuck....
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