...more recent posts
Puff piece, but sort of interesting nonetheless, on wearable displays:
Starner expects that the advent of mass-market floating displays will similarly expand what we do with mobile computers. He and his peers predict that someday we'll all be operating in "augmented reality" with the help of our wearable computers. All that really means is we'll eventually have the ability to bring the Web--or some form of it--with us wherever we go.Clearly the display is the biggest problem going forward (with data entry the second.) But will it go this way, or will flexible roll up displays be the answer? Imagine a cell phone / mobile computer in the form factor of a fat pen. Out of the side of the pen you can pull a flexible screen, like rolling down a window shade. This way you can get an arbitrarily big display in a pocket sized device. Both technologies are here, and close (2 years?) from the retail market.
"Why: Why not?"
Indeed.
Floppy disk drive RAID.