[Twisted-Python] Fwd: [wearables] commercial survey - IEEE Pervasive Computing
Jason Asbahr
jason at crash.org
Thu Jan 31 11:46:54 MST 2002
Excuse the forward, but this touches on some of the personal information
space considerations of Twisted. For additional illustration, may I
suggest adding a Bruce Sterling book of short stories to your reading
list, "A Good Old-Fashioned Future". In particular, the story "Maneki
Neko" illustrates a future application of portable machines and
Memex/Twisted/ReputationNetwork systems for distributed gift-culture
collectives. Like ours. :-)
Jason
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed at reed.com>
> Date: Thu Jan 31, 2002 12:20:41 PM US/Central
> To: rhodes at alum.mit.edu, "Thad E. Starner" <thad at cc.gatech.edu>
> Cc: wearables at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [wearables] commercial survey - IEEE Pervasive Computing
>
> Though I'm still quite excited about the potential of self-contained
> general purpose wearables, I have to say that the capabilities of my
> Kyocera QCP6035 Smartphone, the Samsung palmphone and the upcoming Treo
> are impressively general, and because they can be augmented by
> intelligence on the Internet quite easily (having escaped the walled
> garden of WAP), they can be quite general purpose. Already they can do
> something quite cool - you can attach a small GPS receiver (Pharos) to
> them and get live location info that drives the navigation through
> geographic data on the Internet. There are no car-mount or portable
> GPS navigation systems that can access up-to-date maps and directions -
> they run off of internal data only.
>
> Thus the commercial world surrounding the Palm OS-based phones is
> actually poised ready to go beyond PIMs into new apps. The big limit
> is the bitrate on CDMA and GSM nets that is available (very low, so it
> pays to have local cache).
>
> The real problem inhibiting the market is the odd idea that what you
> want to do with a mobile device is the class of things you do sitting
> at a desk in your study or office. I don't want to browse the Web in
> general - or compose documents or read long Microsoft word attachments.
>
> But the Palm phones are plenty powerful enough to do cool things in
> conjunction with general purpose intelligence elsewhere.
>
>
> At 09:56 AM 1/31/2002 -0800, Bradley Rhodes wrote:
>
>> >Computer enthusiasts have been known to rewrite a MP3 player's
>> >interface software to allow the uploading and downloading of any
>> >type of data, effectively making the device into the equivalent
>> >of a large floppy disk. More recently, these devices are
>> >merging with PDAs and cellular phones to create a wide variety
>> >of available products. IDC expects sales of portable devices
>> >with digital audio playback capability to grow to 15 million
>> >units by 2005. In a sense, these devic
>>
>> It's not just computer enthusiasts anymore. The iPod is both an
>> MP3 player or, at the flip of a switch, a firewire 5G hard
>> drive. A friend of mine uses it both to play music and to store
>> all her personal email, so she can read email at work without
>> tainting company disk with it.
>>
>> You touched on the question of general-purpose, but I'd love to
>> see it addressed further. The average PC owner has a web browser,
>> email reader, full office suite and game machine all in one
>> box. Because of inherent interface constraints, the Palm Pilot is
>> only widely used for PIM applications: short memos, calendar,
>> phone and to-do lists. Wearables have even more interface
>> constraints than pen-based systems, which implies to me they'll
>> be even more task specific, at least until we get a bluetooth
>> equivalent that lets you have task-specific interfaces all
>> sharing one processor/memory/battery attached to the belt
>> somewhere.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> --
>> Bradley Rhodes
>> Intelligence Augmentation | Software Agents | Wearable Computing
>> http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/
>
> - David
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