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See also:

• /tag/portable-computing
• Quiet computing

• Portable gaming

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• Considerations when researching a palmtop

HP 200LX

Pandora

• Handheld computers
• Laptops

• Phones

• Twiddler [ 1 ]

  • A one-handed keyboard.

Old product notes ∞

• https://us.livescribe.com/

  • A pen computer thingy

Dead products and projects ∞

• Sharp PC-3000

• Sharp PC-3100

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• mbook M1 / mbook BZ

  • UMID M1/BZ as a HPLX successor
  • See also Viliv N5 as a HPLX successor

• BUG

  • A modular computer thingy. Pretty expensive.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220213061935/http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

  • An open hardware/software phone.
  • Abandoned - project retired.

• https://web.archive.org/*/moblin.org

  • Mobile and Internet Linux project.

(Abandoned) Morphy One ∞

Abandoned - all associated websites and resources are gone.

http://www.morphyone.org

• English Press Release
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110804221822/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/plaza/aj93/waggy/hp/features/morphyone.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20030619040847/http://www.morphyplanning.co.jp/

• Mailing list:

  • was: english at ml.morphyplanning.co.jp
  • english-help at ml.morphyplanning.co.jp

Notes ∞

• Unveiling game-changing wearable tech

  • Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report - (2002 movie) and then some.

old, really rough, notes ∞

"PocketDOS is an MS-DOS 6.22 compatible DOS for your Microsoft Windows CE or Psion/Symbian EPOC32 based Pocket Computer. In addition to a full DOS, PocketDOS lets you install and run many DOS programs (Intel 8086/80186 compatible using CGA, HP-LX or text display modes) on your Pocket Computer. PocketDOS also lets you access devices such as touchscreens, built-in and external modems, IR ports, flash disks, network drives and more from within DOS and DOS programs."

• https://web.archive.org/*/www.penreader.com/penreade.htm handwriting recognition in ce

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most of this stuff is moot.

Keywords ∞

• all-in-one motherboards
• wearable
• embedded
• single board computers (SBC)

• PC/104

• https://web.archive.org/web/20051217145732/http://www.jumptec.de:80/product/data/index-e.html - OMFG, they have a credit card PC -- 486dx/133
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220722031528/http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc110idx.htm PC 110 resources. Very well done.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080305002222/http://www.circussystems.com:80/keyboards.html build a chording keyboard - no dos drivers yet

• ivpgi.com - They have a tiny keyboard

Carrying Cases ∞

• Targus slipcase - belt carried.. (19x12x3 cm)

• Otterbox - series3000 is perfect - includes a belt loop

• https://web.archive.org/web/20010430031337/http://tawny.bu.edu:80/JandJ/How/PS-3000.html ProLinear MiniNote - 386 palmtop the size of a videocasette (crappy)

• https://web.archive.org/*/www.palmtop.net/netstore.html - a nifty recoiling phone wire and a serial port IR adapter

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160323163858/http://transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=404&page=2 Aqua 3400

  • aqua 3200 - using a transmeta chip, running linux. A large pda.. colour 800x600.. might be able to put dos on it.. might be able to put windows on it.. there might be advanced versions later. I want to put a chording keyboard on it as well. Find the 3400.
  • The damned thing is far too big still.. 23cm wide

• https://web.archive.org/web/20180129061351/http://www.calcaria.net/ Linux7k - Linux on the Psion 5 series - new website, looks very cool!

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20040121021840/http://www.arcom.co.uk:80/products/icp/pc104/processors/SBCMediaGX.htm Kickass system

• https://web.archive.org/web/20061004175415/http://www.arcom.co.uk/products/icp/pc104/processors/SBCMediaGX_LCD.htm 6.5" NEC TFT flat panel

• https://web.archive.org/*/www.flexipc.com - Ugh, I think I have this link.. possibilities.. hmm. It's ugly, but nifty

• https://web.archive.org/web/20020220115921/http://www.tiqit.com:80/mpc.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050317042339/http://www.man-machine.com:80/lcdcustm.htm

  • I emailed them about the HP 200LX and modifications for backliting/etc... They also have a 6" screen. I got no response.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20010607080123/http://www.jayw.demon.co.uk:80/Tiny/

PC 104 ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20190608165036/http://www.controlled.com/pc104/products.html Links from hell

• https://web.archive.org/web/20041020084403/http://www.versalogic.com:80/Ds/VSBC2.htm

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20051026090822/http://www.versalogic.com:80/Ds/vsbc6.htm 266mhx fanless - extended temperature versions exist
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20031003141654/http://www.versalogic.com:80/Ds/vsbc7.htm 333mhz fanless
• https://www.lifewire.com/smart-watches-and-wearables-4781531 [ 2 ]
• https://web.archive.org/*/lippert-at.com/tools/pc104p/ds_pc104p_crr2.html All in one board
• https://shelleyharrison.wordpress.com/shelley-harrison/science-technology/wearable-computing-wearable-technology/ [ 3 ]
• https://www.ampltd.com/ - has an all in one board, fucking tiny, >400mA power usage
• https://web.archive.org/web/20061004175301/http://www.arcom.co.uk/products/icp/dev_kits/ELAN104NC/Dev_Kit.htm - all in one, and comes with a flatpanel monitor

• https://web.archive.org/web/20040121021840/http://www.arcom.co.uk:80/products/icp/pc104/processors/SBCMediaGX.htm - hmm.. kickass

Vapour ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20020203223122/cellcomputing.com/third/snglbrd.html

  • need to get that 8" LCD display panel and a twiddler or small keyboard (the navy seals keyboard) and I'm rocking!
• I would have to figure out a power source
• I would have to figure out a case.

• damn.

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• TurboTortise

  • Was a tiny PC running Linux.

Emulation and virtualization ∞

• /tag/portable-computing+emulation

oldest notes - (Obsoleted by my Zaurus SL-C1000) ∞

(Obsoleted by my Zaurus SL-C1000)

Links ∞

I'll post the newer technologies at the top of the lists.

Notebooks ∞

• Toshiba Libretto L3 / L5 - World's most popular subnotebooks, 2.4 pound portable solution

• Sony Vaio U3 - World's Smallest Full-Featured Notebook

Very small computers ∞

Don't exist:

• http://www.tiqit.com/ Tiqit Eightythree

  • The second half of 2006. But in late 2006 their website says "Until this market matures all bets are off..."
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20090905133625/http://www.tow.com:80/photogallery/2002/20020509_tiqit/ Photo gallery

• https://web.archive.org/web/20081202025004/http://products.sel.sony.com/vaio/ -- Sony VGN U70 U50 U750

  • A tablet thingy. Not sure if it exists.
  • Sony VGN U50, U70, U750P

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090121201844/http://minipc.vulcan.com:80/

  • https://web.archive.org/*/www.handtops.com/show/news/2
  • doesn't exist yet.

Crap:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20181231194813/http://www.oqo.com:80/ -- A tablet PC (Windows XP)

  • www.handtops.com/show/info/OQO
  • http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myOQO/

• HP Jordana 820

  • https://jornada820.sourceforge.net/
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20181126073821/http://fare.tunes.org/computing/jornada820.html
  • A basic kernel is available.

• OQO [ 4 ] - Windows

Palmtops ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20030602204831/http://www.palm.com/products/handhelds/tungsten-c/ Palm Tungsten C

• Sony Clie PEG-TG50:

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20060215103126/http://www.bargainpda.com:80/reviews/default.asp?reviewID=150 Review
  • https://www.techtarget.com/technologyguide/ [ 5 ] Review

• Sony CLIE PEG-UX50 - www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/-/-/-/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=PEGUX50/UKIT1

  • News article

• Handspring Treo 270

  • GPRS, QWERTY
• Handspring Treo 600

• Palm Tungsten W GSM GPRS PDA

Phones ∞

• Nokia 6800 series

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20030321094855/http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/6800
  • Folds out into a keyboard.
  • Since it has web access (TODO - research), it might be useful for remote site maintenance. It's notepad of 3k is pathetic. If upgradeable it might be useful. Research better models.

• Nokia 9210 Communicator

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20020205130937/http://www.nokiausa.com/communicator/
  • Has a qwerty keyboard.
  • http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/devices/nokia9210/index.php
• BlackBerry 950 - teeny web browser
• Blackberry 6750 - phone/pda thing

• Timeport P935

  • No web access?
• Treo 90
• Treo 270
• Treo 600

• Danger Hiptop)

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20041230233056/http://www.hiptop.com/
  • GPRS device

Misc ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060103094748/http://www.cdatas.com/

  • Computer on a CF card.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090214031749/http://www.hacker-technology.com/145291/index.html

  • Embedded Linux-PC in Compact Flash Form Factor

• https://web.archive.org/web/20081017103345/http://www.hacker-technology.com/3479/index.html

  • CF-DMM + DAQ/COMM Cards + PCI<=>CF Adapter
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20080918233923/http://www.hacker-technology.com/3479/3548.html

• https://web.archive.org/web/20191011075703/https://thegoldenear.org/rcs/index.html

  • The Roaming Computing System

• Fellowes PDA Pocket Keyboard (type 'n go) is kinda cool

possible search topics ∞

• Mini-LCD screens (eyepiece, integrated LCD)
• Technical blackpapers (wireless protocals, portable CPU energy consumption figures)

• Standards descriptions (smaller than pc/104)

• MIT projects including wearable computing resources, the morphy one and most other open source hardware projects.

• piezoelectric shoe inserts

unrelated topics:

• piezoelectric droplet generators
• piezoelectric transducers / receivers

• lcd tv

• handheld
• palmtop
• unobtrusive
• augmented memory
• clandestine wearable computer

• https://www.cappuccinopc.com/

  • expresso mini-pc
  • Capaccino mini-pc
• wearable

• pda

  • pc/104
  • pc/104 plus
• embedded

• absorb:

  • cyberware
  • cybernetics
  • cybertechnology

Info on hardtech grafting onto or interfacing to softtech/biotech

research nervous system connectivity, optic replacements (done) and limb reattaching stuff

Possible Resources ∞

• https://www.computer.org/

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20010828201840/http://www.computer.org/micro/homepage/may_june/shenck/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20000419182756/www.mobileinsights.com/mobileletter/20000104.html

• Cyberware

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20130327065950/http://www.cyberpunks.org/

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• The Wearable Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

  • https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wearable/group/
    -- 2022-07-12 - Apparently unmaintained; last updated ~2000-09-29.
  • https://hcii.cmu.edu/research/faculty/grid?year=&research-area=133 [ 6 ]
  • https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/vuman/www/home.html
  • was wearablegroup.org

• MIT Wearable Computing

  • https://www.media.mit.edu/Wearables/
  • was lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20030620135751/http://www.handhelds.org/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080423092554/http://www.embeddedtechnology.com/content/homepage/

• The Biometric Consortium - US government

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20160603194254/http://www.biometrics.org/

Input:

• Small/portable keyboard
• Half keyboard

• Jonathan Clark

  • I emailed him re. biometric io work he may have done, but got no response.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090131115539/http://ezl.com/~rsch/keyboard.txt

  • Information on the IBM keyboard interface

Output

• Mini LCD (also mini-lcd, cluttered with lcd tv)

• Sony LCD eyeglasses monitor

• https://web.archive.org/web/20080314100252/http://auriga.wearlab.de/

  • Auriga -- Wearable computing software.

Links ∞

• https://www.gumstix.com/

• https://web.archive.org/web/20181231201244/https://kemplar.com/

  • Some of the more obscure things used to be purchasable from these guys.

Last updated 2023-06-29 at 09:02:08

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