Wrist-Worn Personal Computer with Integrated GPS
Eurotech, an Italian company has announced the a wrist-worn pc with integrated GPS called Wearable WWPC. This new, concept gadget can use both Windows CE and Linux as an operating system and is powered by a low power processor which isn’t defined in the product’s brochure. Some of the other features of WWPC include:
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32MB ROM
64MB RAM
3,5″65k colors touchscreen
WiFi 802.11g
IrDA
Bluetooth v1.1
SD-card slot
L1 16-channel GPS receiver with active helix antenna
This new cool gadget isn’t available yet and no information about when it will become available has been posted.
Via Linux Devices
[...] Eurotech has officially unveiled yesterday ZYPAD, the wrist-worn pc with integrated GPS that we have talked about in a previous post. This new device weight 290 grams and is worn at the wrist. The idea behind this unique GPS enabled PC is to leave the hands free according to Roberto Siagri, Eurotech’s president. Eurotech also claims that they have managed to deal with power consumption very efficiently by using an accelerometer that will detect when the user’s arm hangs down beside the body and placing the device in standby mode.Some of the main features of the first ZYPAD that will be released the Zypad™ WL 1000 are: [...]
June 29th, 2006 at 11:30 am