>>>according to Moynahan at the Yahoo club, this
>>>announcement became necessary after the IBM
>>>ads touting their future wearable.
I recall one prior time when IBM chatted about coming out with wearables - XYBR stock dropped. If this P.R. was issued only to prevent that from happening again, perhaps there is less here than initially appears.
I was hoping this P.R., which lacked specifics, would be a precursor to an announcement of a "specific and significant" collaboration between XYBR and IBM. Now I see this might just be a carefully worded release intended to prevent a repeat panic.
Oh, well. It was a fun trading day - with Xybernaut firmly hitting the daytrading crosshairs on solid sounding news. I'm not holding now, but I suspect XYBR will gap up a buck in the AM and peak half a buck higher 30 minutes later. I expect there is room for a briefing.com shreading here.
Reality will set in over the next few days when people realize that nothing has actually changed between IBM and Xybernaut, that the MA-V is a year away, and that the MA-IV missed the mark (note the $3.8mil PR a few days ago would still technically hold true if the first significant sales started a year down the road with sales of the MA-V).
>>>I see XYBR selling the industrial grade,
>>>productivity enhancers and IBM (on license)
>>>selling the mass consumer machines.
This makes sense to me, too, though I again have to suggest that the consumer machines might not have much in common with PCs, and may not fit under the XYBR patent umbrella. Industry needs a versatile wearable PC for it's widely varying needs. People will seek only a socially acceptable/necessary subset of computing functions.
Oh, I also believe real-time foreign language translation will eventually become a standard feature in personal wearables (as differentiated from wearable PCs). Just speak English into the microphone, and the French translation comes out the speaker. I'm looking more than five years down the road in my (ahem) "visions".
>>>don't leave out the patents that XYBR has
>>>for "core computing"
I see Xybernaut patents as being oriented toward the "PC" geometry, not at every CPU-containing wearable computer or device. It's fairly clear that most "special-purpose" computers are not included in the Xybernaut scope.
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