Ultra-portable terminals

[John Esak]

>
> > Had they been around just 4 years ago when Dr. Dovellewas
> working on his Artificial Vision project... therewould (not
> might) be thousands of people who werecompletely blind... seeing
> now. His system was incredible.
>
> 	I heard about this. I find it amazing that this is
> possible at all. Vision is so complex. There are so many
> parts that have to work correctly for the person to actually
> see something. For a computer to take over some of the
> vision process and integrate into the human body is
> nothing less than a miracle.
>
> --
> Laura Brody

So true.

As for the all-in-one issue. This thing is not a cell-ponne-camera-mp3
player, etc. It is nothing more than a computer... very small.  If your
computer crashes... it *all* goes down now anyway. If it is a little smaller
and it goes down... there isn't a big difference. Down is down. :-)

Mashing lots of functionality into a "cell-phone" is one thing... Using a
computer to emulate a phone, a camera, an mp3 player... is another. I'm all
for miniaturization until the damn things are in my writst watch (like Dick
Tracy's communicator). Once they are that samll and they can tie into any
nearby display... with voice input and output... we will be in a new
world... I give it about 5 years. :-)


John