My "wearable" project goal is a rig that fits into a fanny pack, prolly larger than a laptop, but that is just the base... I might access it via a handheld or HMD/twiddler, etc. I'm not at all absolutist about _wearing_ wearables directly on the body -- to me, it's more about broad class of computing devices that "go with you", and by that definition I think laptop users qualify, although I'd like to break out of the desk paradigm.
ciao Ben B http://benb.org On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:16:17 -0700 Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: | > Bummer about the 12" screen, as a larger display for your existing | > setup that sounded like it'd be perfect -- but i can see the | > cheating issue of other students reading your nice big calculator | > display! | | It's actually the keyboard orientation that gets me. The TI-83 is | acceptable but the TI-99 is not because it has a horizontal layout | QWERTY keyboard. If you tell me that you think that restrictions of | that sort are stupid and arbitrary, I'll agree with you. | | | > In terms of companies NOT REALIZING how important it is to have | > accessibility, it is unfortunate that it seems to fall onto your own | > shoulders to convince them. I'm not in the know on this subject, | > but aren't there organizations to help bring serious attention to | > these matters (even legal attention if need be -- they must do some | > amount of due diligence -- couldn't a bad solution make your | > situation worse??) | | A company is not required to design a product to be used by the blind | or by anybody else for that matter. OTOH, I bet that a Palm device | about the size of the original models, a slightly larger screen, and | using a backlit greyscale TFT screen for significantly less than the | cost of the color models would sell like hotcakes among those people | who don't have great vision. | | If you can find an old notebook using greyscale TFT, they were | insanely sharp and crisp. IBM made a Thinkpad that way in the era of | the 486 notebooks and Apple made both 100 and 200 series Powerbooks | that way. | | | > Well good luck! Are you on the wearables list, Joseph? Maybe we | > could banter about portable UI's there?? ( = I'm all for | > bantering... and maybe some useful ideas could even come of it! | | I had some interest that direction, but have come to the conclusion | that carryable is indeed better than wearable, though honestly I'm | running out of places upon my person to carry things. I can now see | why the Treo is so popular even though it's really not extremely good | at being a cell phone or a PDA. It means one less device to carry. | | Mostly this is all an issue for me at all because I already have to | carry a cane, a magnifier, a monocular, and a pair of glasses that | need to be stowed when not on my face. Add to that a non-tiny cell | phone and suddenly I'm running out of places to carry things. | | -- | Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The mighty Oak is the | result of | ^ a nut! a nut that has held its | ground | | <MFGolfBal> rit/ara: There's something really demented about UNIX | underwear... | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
