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To: John Finley who wrote (667)	5/2/1999 1:56:00 PM
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Future gadgets get mixed reaction BBC News ONLINE story about some 'big' ideas from IBM. From the RealAudio clip "John Karidis on designing the future": Karidis (IBM): ...One of the things we're looking at is a cellphone with a projection display. Rather than a wearable computer where you have to put on a headset, it's a similar kind of projection display built into a phone, so that you can hold the phone in a normal way, but look and see what appears to be a full-screen display at normal distance. That means that you could use a cellphone-type device to get access to anything on the internet. Normal content, full-screen, color eventually, not just three lines of text like you can on many digital phones today. news.bbc.co.uk IBM's concept phone produces a virtual image large enough to display normal content taken unmodified from the Internet. Navigation is done by voice command in conjunction with a thumb-operated pointer. The image is generated by a microdisplay on the end of the phone; actual size is not given. The viewer form factor is matched to the flip-phone cover which gives them a relatively large area to work with, but requires that the optics work within a shallow depth. Possibly the 'mirror' uses a path folding approach like the OptiScape viewer from inViso (formerly Siliscape). IBM is apparently aiming for a device from which the user will be able to access anything on the Internet, with operation as much as possible like a standard browser. Towards that end, they demand that the virtual image size be at least equivalent to a notebook screen at normal distance. IBM has achieved that here, in this CyberPhone prototype. WT

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