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Technology Stocks : Kopin Corp. (KOPN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John J. Riley who wrote (674)	5/11/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: kinkblot	Respond to of 1820

IBM has gone right past Idea, to Big Idea. "At the moment it's just a Notion, but with a bit of backing I think I could turn it into a Concept, and then an Idea." -- at a Hollywood party, in a scene from Annie Hall Back when it was just a regular Idea: IBM Research Magazine, 1996 issue #3 research.ibm.com From the Cyberphone section: The recipe calls for a cellular phone with data capability, to which is added a small computer. That combination is then married to a 1.4-inch-diagonal projection display that projects onto a specially designed mirror that is built into a flip phone cover. The result is a new mobile platform that provides a VGA-resolution display and computer in a handheld cell phone. While talking on the phone, the display appears to the user as if it were the same size as an 11-inch notebook computer screen at normal reading distance. A thumb-operated TrackPoint, located on the side of the phone, allows the user to readily navigate among the icons and information windows. That is similar to the more recent prototype from Karidis' new products group that appears in the BBC story. Apparently they've been working on it at least since 1996. Kopin didn't introduce the CyberDisplay until April 1997. If they are still using the same display, it's not a CyberDisplay. In fact, the diagonal dimension is almost six times greater. I do believe that IBM is wise to go for a virtual image equivalent to notebook size. CyberDisplay with Kopin's optical system is only about half that size, and that may be its Achilles' heel for this application. Will