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Re: Puting your palm on your wrist...

>From what I've read (check out the current article in Wired about the
Fossil palm...) it looks like the only interface will be IR...

Anyone think it could be possible to open up a watch and hook up the
IR-LED to wireless circuitry (perhaps residing outside the watch, on a
sleeve or on the underside of the wristband) to allow communication
between the watch and a wearable?

This does seem too hard, though bulk may be a problem... It would greatly
increase the usefulness of the watch though.

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003  wrote:

:> > Interesting idea.  I'm a big fan of the Palm in a watch that Fossil
:
:> according to my math the screen is only 20mm wide, Seems pretty
:> small for me.
:
:It is small -- but it's also the first general purpose wearable computer
:that I'm aware of, that'll be easily available on the consumer market.
:
:The OnHand, RuPuter, and a few others were available, but they were
:highly proprietary, extremely limited, and super expensive.  This thing
:is about twice the price of a regular Palm, and that's retail...that's
:affordable.  And, thanks to its running PalmOS, it'll run hundreds of
:thousands of programs, off the shelf...
:
:I'm excited.
:
:Anyway, it gives computing power, and a dot matrix addressible
:display, on your wrist.  I can think of LOTS of ways to use that
:particular combination...and PalmOS would make it relatively easy to
:program new solutions.
:
:> kinda
:> makes me wish I learned how to program for the palm.
:
:I just got a copy of CodeWarrior with the 68K cross compiler, so
:hopefully I'll have my first "hello world" program banged out shortly.
:
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