To: John Finley who wrote (667 ) 5/2/1999 1:56:00 PM From: kinkblot Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Future gadgets get mixed reaction 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 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).
