Fwd: RE: Ultra-portable terminals

[Transpower]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Ultra-portable terminals
Date: 7/27/2006, 3:52 PM
From: Transpower <transpower at aol.com>
To: john at valar.com
cc: filepro-list at celestial.com
Organization: Transpower Corporation

John:  I regularly backup my MDA Pro, a universal device.  I love having
all the features--phone, camera, music player, video player, the Web and
email, Internet radio, Pocket DOS, Windows Mobile programs including a
decent client for Terminal Server, various calculators, clock with
Internet time sync, GPS navigation, etc.

Regards,
Ron Satz
Transpower Corporation, www.transpowercorp.com, transpower at aol.com


John Esak wrote on 7/27/2006, 1:08 PM:

  > >
  > > > 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
  >
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