Here is the wearable PC info re batteries. Sounds like they need VLNC for a lighter, better product that's environmentally friendly. (Grin)
By Carmen Nobel, eWEEK
UPDATED June 1, 2000 10:59 AM PT
"The current model of the company's MA IV is a head-mounted PC with a color display, touch-screen tablet, wrist keyboard, 233MHz Pentium MMX processor, up to 160MB of RAM and up to an 8GB hard drive. It weighs less than 2 pounds, half of which is a 1-pound lithium-ion battery. "
"Battery technology is standing still now, and there's not much Xybernaut or anyone else can do about it until the technology catches up with the industry. As for the operating system for wearable computers, Newman has no immediate plans to break ties with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), but he said Xybernaut depends heavily on the research of Mann, whose work he considers important to the future of wearable computing. And Mann said Windows is not the operating system for wearable computing. " |
