Re: [iPAQ] wearable iPAQ?

"Noel J. Bergman" wrote:
>
> > The "head" unit would have an occular(sp) display over one eye, earphone,
> > microphone, smaller battery and a bluetooth module.
>
> And what about those of us, a majority I believe, who wear glasses? :-)

Count me in as well. :)

MicroOptical Corp:

http://www.microopticalcorp.com/

are "the standard" HMD in a lot of wearable projects. Their main
product is a pair of eyeglasses (a little "extra-geeky" looking
style...) with integrated display. They can make prescription lenses if
you so wish.

This product would be my primary option for doing this as the display is
320x240 by default and so would match perfectly the iPAQ's display
characteristics. They currently work with a VGA/NTSC converter, but I
wonder how complicated it would be to interface the iPAQ LCD output
directly to the glasses' input.

Add a serial Twiddler and this starts looking like a very do-able
project for way less than the $5K pricetag for a base Xybernaut unit
without HMD even.

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