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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Microvision (MVIS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5566)	10/31/2002 5:39:24 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Dear Maurice: You GOTTA be kidding. Its bad enough these damn cell phones being used in cars. I just witnessed at COSTCO a lady talking on the cell phone and SIDESWIPING a car in the parking lot. When I see people talking on the cell phone while driving I just want to reach in and grab that damn phone and toss it as far as I can. I can just imagin some soccer mom watching her favorite soap opera while tooling down the highway at 70mph. JDN

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5566)	10/31/2002 12:24:11 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 7720

Maurice, we disagree again. Surprise! I don't want to distract a driver further with extra entertainment. On the otherhand, it could be used to present information that they currently obtain from the dashboard. I'd like to see the system used as a head-up display for pilots. I can't see the current aviation offering being taken up in large numbers - there's too many good panel displays coming on the market. Minivans over here already have video screens in the back seat, and they are used so some can stomach them. The reason people get nausea reading, say, in a car, is that the information from their eye contradicts that from their inner ear. On a boat, the advice to the seasick is to watch the horizon - as teenagers we took delight in talking with anyone who looked queesy on a boat - swaying in the opposite direction of the boa to confuse our victims' balance furthert. It would be relatively easy to use a motion sensor and program the devices so that the image was steady. Watching the screen would be like watching the horizon. It's not looking like a Cyborg that would worry me. It's the encumbrance of wearing it strapped to my head, with wires hanging around. Every time you get in and out of the car it would be a pain. The plugs would always be getting thtorn out. Bits would get lost. You have kids - you should know all this better than I. On the otherhand (I'm metaphorically ambidextrous), if the hardware could be made less obtrusive, it could become a part of our consumer lives. Yes, people will have their own screens on their phone or substitute. Kids will be happy with those - if they don't get sick - maybe despite that. I bought a new car earlier this year. I would have bought the phone option. I might even have paid the outrageous purchase price if I had not been shackled to an exorbitant subscription. The same went for the GPS and "Telematics." The take-up rate will depend on the cost. MVIS needn't be tied to a subscription: buy a unit and connect it to any DVD player. Every car I've bought in the last twenty years has had more computerised stuff than the last. Gimmicks on the latest model, such as a fuel computer, become standard on the replacement. The initial technology will become obsolete quickly. I place the cyborg units in airplanes in that category. After that, I think the units will be like televisions, they'll get better incrementally, clearer, smaller, lighter, etc. Unlike televisions, they are colo(u)r already. Ashley PS. This was meant to be a brief message!. By my standards, it's an epic.