Sunday, February 1, 2009

Did you know...

Ok, I just had a good idea, so I am dumping it before I forget. I love using Wikipedia for looking stuff up, but the only problem is that you need a computer or at least a smart phone to access it. However, the proliferation of internet enables phones and micro computing lends a hand here. What if you were able to combine a simple wearable computing piece of hardware with the internet to allow instant access to Wikipedia or anything else? I like the idea of just using some of these as a computer display. I would like to be able to use a phone for internet and as small a computer as possible. The closest thing I can think of is a PicoITX. Anyway, I don't like the look or price of video goggles, so I thought it would be easier to just use a pair of glasses like these with an embedded one of these. This is in the realm of wearable computing, which I know is a whole different deal with tons of research going in to it and stuff. But I still am curious to see how hard it would be to make me be able to read Wikipedia anywhere. No more need for Mosio or anything. Just put on the glasses. use your phone as a keyboard, and have the collective knowledge of the world at your fingertips. Actually, now that I think about it, you could just get a video out from your smart phone to the micro screen, which would give you a browser and internet and input all in the same very small box. Hm, hopefully some phone companies start seeing how awesome this could be and GET TO IT!

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