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A Palm On Your Wrist
from the not-bad...- dept
About a year ago, I was thinking about the pain of carrying around all sorts of different gadgets, and realized that the wrist watch was such a great idea. Here was a specialized gadget that could do a fair number of things, but never made it feel like you were "carrying" around anything extra - as it just attached to your body in an unobtrusive, yet highly accesible way. At the time, I wondered why (other than size limitation) other devices didn't try to take advantage of that concept. It seems that some are trying. Fossil has announced a new watch that includes Palm's operating system. While it's only a first generation offering, I could see how such a thing could potentially catch on. It certainly makes it easier to carry around a Palm device - though, the smaller screen may make it seem less worthwhile. However, the possibilities down the road, including some sort of wireless connection could make the "wrist watch PDA" a lot more interesting. Of course, this Fossil watch certainly could fail (and I'm sure many people expect it to) - so I wonder if that will scare off others from experimenting with wrist watch-based ideas.
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back in the 80s....
Portable game consoles came and went too -- they were considered a serious noise problem in the early 90s, and people feared a future when no place would be safe from the blips of portable gamers.
They had tiny TV's in the late 80s/early 90s too, which seems to be making a temporary comeback based on the LCD/Plasma/whatever novelty technology concept.
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nice!
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Re: back in the 80s....
There is an under-served market for people that like to have nice big displays. People with less-than-perfect eyesight hate miniature devices. Even people with good eyesight strain to see the tiny displays in sub-optimal lighting conditions.
A wristwatch-sized PDA epitomizes the annoying too-small displays.
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