GNU/Linux Wrist Watch

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Here another link:

	http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0022/index.html

Am 04.05.2010 um 11:56 schrieb 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.....
>
>
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