geneven
2007-10-16, 02:30
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005A1LX/psxextreme
The above links to the Rexx 6000 the brand of credit-card sized computer I bought in 2000.
They really should bring something like it back. There must be a market for something that you REALLY CAN take it with you anywhere. I took mine to Moscow in my wallet; I practically forgot I had it. You really could put it in your credit card compartment and forget it.
It came with a cradle you'd use to sync with the Internet. It used the AvantGo news collection service. You could also use email. And it had a bunch of small apps like you would find on a phone today.
The problem was that it was not particularly configurable, and when Xircom abandoned it, you could no longer get info from the Internet because it had been provided by Xircom.
These days, it would come with wireless and you could easily fit an SDHC card in there, maybe it would come with 8 gigs! How's that for something you could stick in your wallet!
I used to sit on the subway in Manhattan reading the daily news on it, so I know it is readable. And I could read books, too; it had a primitive reader, a forerunner of Fbreader.
I think it would be really cool to be bored in a doctor's office, for example, and then REMEMBER that you have a device like this with you and start reading today's news. It would hopefully have auto-sync, so the news would have been automatically added to it at your house or whereever you were that had wireless.
If I had enough money, I'd start a company and manufacture them. In the future, all calculators will come with wireless Internet access...
The above links to the Rexx 6000 the brand of credit-card sized computer I bought in 2000.
They really should bring something like it back. There must be a market for something that you REALLY CAN take it with you anywhere. I took mine to Moscow in my wallet; I practically forgot I had it. You really could put it in your credit card compartment and forget it.
It came with a cradle you'd use to sync with the Internet. It used the AvantGo news collection service. You could also use email. And it had a bunch of small apps like you would find on a phone today.
The problem was that it was not particularly configurable, and when Xircom abandoned it, you could no longer get info from the Internet because it had been provided by Xircom.
These days, it would come with wireless and you could easily fit an SDHC card in there, maybe it would come with 8 gigs! How's that for something you could stick in your wallet!
I used to sit on the subway in Manhattan reading the daily news on it, so I know it is readable. And I could read books, too; it had a primitive reader, a forerunner of Fbreader.
I think it would be really cool to be bored in a doctor's office, for example, and then REMEMBER that you have a device like this with you and start reading today's news. It would hopefully have auto-sync, so the news would have been automatically added to it at your house or whereever you were that had wireless.
If I had enough money, I'd start a company and manufacture them. In the future, all calculators will come with wireless Internet access...