GNU/Linux Wrist Watch

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hewlett Packard also made a wristwatch calculator 1977-1980, the HP-01:

	http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp01.htm

Nikolaus

Am 04.05.2010 um 11:33 schrieb Jon 'maddog' Hall:

> Back in 1975 one of the watch companies made a "computer watch" that  
> you
> could play a weak form of asteroids on it, and program the watch in
> BASIC.  It had a stand that contained a keyboard and printer, and the
> watch communicated with the stand through inductance (you had to put  
> the
> watch on the stand to program it, input data or print).
>
>
>> I don't know if someone is producing such a wristwatch, but there
>> was
>> a research project by IBM:
>>
>> http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/linuxwatch/linuxwatch.html
>>
>> showing that it is (was) possible and how it could look like.
>>
>> BR,
>> Nikolaus
>>
> Yes.  I have seen the prototype several times, the last time at IBM's
> research labs in Austin, Texas (sitting in a display case) and it even
> made it to the point where Citizen was a potential manufacturer
> (mentioned on the web page)
>
> BUT
>
> the battery life was pathetic, and it was rather clunky looking, and  
> it
> still could not make a telephone call, so it was never produced.
>
> BUT
>
> technology moves forward, and someday.....