What a concept it is... A colleague sent an email with the pictures presented here. Originator unknown, if this is your work - please get in touch - would love to attribute and thank you. Make your own mind up as to whether fact or fiction! Shown at left for the first time. What is it I hear you cry?! Sure doesn't look like a PC...
Perhaps it kinda looks like some sort of web cam built into a pen...
But no...
This is more than some mere webcam!
Whilst the projection display technology is hugely questionable, the laser projected keyboard is more credible, using available technology.
The Virtual Laser Keyboard is a first ranking gadget - being both wireless (Bluetooth) and whackingly innovative. However, whilst functional, this technology does have distinct limitations - most notably requiring the unit to be used perpendicular to a flat plane surface; with more than moderate ambient light detracting from visibility. The final image illustrates another concept integration of this technology.
Posted 8:29 AM, Saturday, May 06, 2006, by Faber Optimé. Post permanently located here. Click here to email the author about this post.
Now Bluetooth headsets are quite prevalent, some being extremely small (e.g. the 5G headset - just 5 grams in weight!). However to date these have all been technically designed for the mobile phone market. Increasing availability of Bluetooth on personal computers highlights a current deficiency. Whilst Bluetooth headsets are adequate for Voice over IP (VoIP) applications, they are not suitable for speech recognition (sic) applications, such as Microsoft Windows Tablet Edition, Office 2003, Dragon Dictate, etc. Whereas phone calls require relatively low bandwidth to be effective, speech recognition demands much higher quality audio to pick up nuances such as the difference between "f"s and "s"s or "b"s and "p"s, found in parts of the audio spectrum not so well served by lower bandwidth. Additional Bluetooth specification issues muddy the water. Thus we still await for the perfect headset to emerge:
Small and leightweight - easy to forget you're wearing - unobtrustive
Wireless
Provides not only telephony but also verbal computer control and dictation and other sound applications
Low power, high availability
Personally I'd like to also have an optionally pluginable ear piece on fly lead to attach when I want to listen to my MP3s in stereo too.
Posted 11:50 PM, Monday, May 01, 2006, by Faber Optimé. Post permanently located here. Click here to email the author about this post.
This site embodies some holistic thinking in coalescing a number of technologies to create most effective communication - after all, that's what it's all about! Primary publishing technologies used include: Microsoft Frontpage for site/page design and use of Blogger technologies. The former provides a robust framework for sub-/site assembly and general page design, including navigation - a key aspect. The latter provides a method for extremely dynamic publishing capability. Utilised in addition to other tools and technologies delivers rich HTML automatic email delivery and RSS and ATOM newsfeeds. Blogger also provides extremely well for authorship-anywhere - another research interest. In addition to its full blown web interface, a number of additional leightweight pubishing interfaces are provided. This provides immediate, user-overt infrastructure for comments and track backs (another blogging technology), as well as a myriad of possibilities for publishers... Photos and notes jotted on your cellphone PDA available on the web and delivered by email to all site subscribers before you're back to your desk anyone? Anyway this site is all about communicating information. Research shows that internet users are primarily users of email and the web, typically (though by no means exclusively!) using Internet Explorer. This web site is as content-rich as possible; with complementary, content-rich automated email, generated automatically from the same source publication. To efficiently find what you need, decent Search technology is vital. An effective (free!) implementation is shown top right. Readers should note an additional, critical design objective of this site is that it be of minimal cost to build and run!
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...of Inspiratio Optimé! It is often observed that innovative people effuse creativity. Here's Faber Optimé's vent for such! If you're interested in new ideas then this is the place for you.
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