[iPAQ] 2nd Generation iPAQ Wearable Computer

Hello,

this is to announce prototype snapshots and component descriptions of a
2nd Generation iPAQ Wearable Computer running Linux.

 http://www.iptel-now.de/PROJECTS/WEARABLE/2G_IPAQ_WEARABLE/2g_ipaq_wearable.html

The device combines input from a Twiddler Chording Keyboard with text
output to a serially attached MicroOptical Head Mounted Display
(working as "memory mapped" to a Linux standard console/xterm) and an
text-to-speech audio interface using Flite.

Being equiped with a Colorgraphics Voyager PCMCIA VGA card and operating
in Dual Boot (both Linux and PocketPC) mode it also lets you prepare and
present slides while you are working apart from your home environment.

It is based on off-the-shelf hardware components and designed to (if
necessary and desirable in certain situations) interoperate with more
computing-powerfull components (e.g. a MPL MIP-520 based Wearable
Computer) in a WLAN coupled wireless network.

The setup has shown to work sucessfully in a heterogenous Voice over IP /
Internet Telephony scenario and will be used for a number of other
Wearable application scenarios in the near future.

best regards
 ralf

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Best regards,
 Ralf Ackermann
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