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Technology Stocks : XYBR - Xybernaut -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roy F who wrote (4966)	6/8/2002 9:30:03 AM
From: Roy F	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6847

integratedmar.com Friday File: They shot me right in the CPU 6 June, 2002 by Robert Dutt You know the feeling. It's 1:32am, you've been working on a sales report non-stop for fourteen straight hours. Your brain feels like Dairy Queen Soft Server -- cold, numb, tasteless and formless. But wait... it's done. All you have to do now is hit Ctrl and S and.... what the hell? Blue screen? Let's face it... if you work with computers long enough, you will begin to plot their demise. It's an inevitability. Most of us have spent a good deal of time planning, nay, fantasizing about using Elvis' novel method for changing channels on TV, on our PC. Many of us have spent hours detailing how we'd like our PC to take a bullet. But have you ever thought "Geez, I'd love for my PC to stop a bullet." Whether you're a cop or soldier in need of information on the way to an important call, or just a new age gangsta who can't resist the urge to play a little Solitaire while rolling around town in your low rider, representin', Xybernaut's got a deal for you. Through a partnership with Second Chance Body Armor, the "wearable computer" specialist has introduced... well... a bullet-proof computer that will not only keep you up and running if you happen to be doing e-mail in the middle of a firefight, but will also keep the PC alive. "It can stop a .44 Magnum round or a 9mm full-metal jacket, which covers a good portion of what you might face if you're a soldier or a police officer on patrol," Xybernaut spokesperson Michael Binko told CNet News.com recently. Xybernaut originally saw its purpose in life in creating wearable computers, technology for people who need access to a PC, but don't really have the hands free to do the job -- doing things like repairs on the inside of an airplane engine, for example. But the U.S. military got a hold of some of them for field repair operations, and decided the ability to feed knowledge up to troops in the field was just pretty gosh-darned cool (That's a military term, ya know.) Now, police forces and armies are looking at the vest-mounted PC with a small eyepiece for a display as an option for getting the latest information and technology on the troops in the field. And so, we get the world's first combination bullet-proof vest and personal computer. There's something vaguely science-fiction about this, we have to think. Here you have the soldier of the future, coming out of the smoke of the battle front with an assault rifle in his hands, camo on his face, and a bullet-proof Pentium 4 strapped to his torso. Given the projected heat problems with faster processors that serve as a constant scourge to Intel's designers, these soldiers could really be going into battle packing heat. As for us here in sub-basement 14, we'll pass on the wearable bullet-proof PC. We've already got a solution to this problem... a decade-old notebook that's thick enough to stop a bullet, and if you whack a would-be assailant with it.... they're going down!