IBM demonstrates 'breakthrough' in wearable prototypes.
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Tuesday October 6, 7:44 am Eastern Time
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IBM Demonstrates Kopin CyberDisplay-Enabled Wearable PC at IBM Fair '98
TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1998--At the recent IBM Fair '98 in Tokyo, Japan, IBM Corporation, one of the world's leading technology companies, demonstrated to attendees a breakthrough in wearable computers and display technologies by showing a working prototype of a Kopin CyberDisplay-enabled clip-on personal computer.
The prototype IBM Wearable PC, a ThinkPad 560X shrunk to the footprint of a Palm Pilot complete with 340MB of storage and 64MB of EDO RAM, weighed only 10.5 ounces, including battery. This new product concept is envisioned by IBM as an ultra-convenient information tool for maintenance, repair and system installation personnel to use to display wiring diagrams, inventory lists, schematics and video. The 233 MHz PC is powerful enough to run IBM's Via Voice speech software. The Wearable PC's high quality optical image is provided by the Kopin Corporation CyberDisplay 320 which produces a high-resolution image on a small-format .24 inch diagonal AMLCD (the same display technology used in high-end notebook PC screens). Through the use of optics with the CyberDisplay, the images seen by the user appear like those seen on a typical desktop PC monitor.
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