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Eurotech's WWPC has everything incorporated that PC users expect

What was once envisioned as a simple calculator watch has drastically changed into a modern day computer. A company called Eurotech thinks everyone will have a wrist-worn PC (WWPC) as the eventual PDA replacement, designed for the use of on call jobs where you need to communicate or find out information fast, such as healthcare and emergency rescue. A more durable model could probably be used by police and military personal. 

The 7 ounce wrist PC can hold up to 1GB of any supporting cards fitting into a SD-card slot. The WWPC comes with 64MB of SDRAM and 32MB of embedded flash. It has 2 cell Li-polymer rechargeable batteries that are built into the adjustable and flexible wrist straps which have a battery life of up to six hours in "fully operational" mode, and eight hours in normal circumstances. WiFi, Bluetooth, and infrared networking are included along with USB host and device ports, built-in speakers, and a headphone jack. A very dashing 2.8 x 2.2 inch daylight-readable LCD touchscreen and a direct-access keypad with covers the top of the wrist.

Another neat feature of the WWPC is that is has a patented orientation sensor that can detect if the users arm drops it will await in stand by mode conserving more power. That is not the only sensor that is embedded in this device, but when a user becomes motionless built-in GPS receiver which will act as transmitting beacon. 



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Ehhh....
By Rock Hydra on 3/15/2006 11:18:34 PM , Rating: 2
Although I really think it's sweet tech. I see it as another reason to get mugged/robbed.




RE: Ehhh....
By alphaaa on 3/16/2006 12:46:57 AM , Rating: 2
if this thing's enough, people will start doing hit-and-run, arm-chopping style


RE: Ehhh....
By Stele on 3/16/2006 1:37:45 AM , Rating: 2
^ You don't say! Where I live, snatch theft is a serious (and growing!) problem... we've already had some deaths due to victims banging their head on a road/pavement/lamp post after being yanked into a fall when theives on speeding bikes grab their sling/handbags from behind. I won't be in the least surprised that they'll adopt the tactic you mentioned to get these babies~ as Rock Hydra commented, another reason to get mugged.

On another note though, it sure looks cool. Wonder if it'll *feel* cool with the CPU and other components all crammed in that little box strapped to you wrist :P Perhaps in the near future we'd have 3d keyboards and/or displays a la Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within *drool*


RE: Ehhh....
By robert5c on 3/16/2006 3:44:37 AM , Rating: 3
yea but if this is going to be first used by police and military, they arn't going to get jacked...cause those personal already have more expensive gear on their body then this, and oh yea did i mention a gun too...

also it sounds like a great tool you would strap on when you check into work like at a job site, shipping yard, or like said..a hospital...so again you would be on a secured area for the most part, and the functionality would be tailored to that profession i'd presume making it less attractive to others...

also they could make these devices require a password to turn on, or better yet, a biometric reader on the touch screen...


RE: Ehhh....
By KristopherKubicki (blog) on 3/16/2006 5:08:19 AM , Rating: 3
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also they could make these devices require a password to turn on, or better yet, a biometric reader on the touch screen...

Why stop there. It's attached to your arm, hemorecognition for the win.


RE: Ehhh....
By Stele on 3/16/2006 9:50:01 AM , Rating: 2
Excellent suggestion, folks. Hopefully one or more such biometric features make it in. Especially hemorecognition, or ID using the vein pattern on the back of your hand (which we've deployed in some highly sensitive installations). Unique as a thumbprint, cannot be easily forged (vein pattern is complex, and requires body temperature so bad guys can't chop your hand off and present it to the scanner etc).

Unfortunately, there's a catch to it all - these security features merely ensure that the the thief would not be able to use it. Doesn't prevent them from *stealing* it, or just *wanting* to steal it for that matter... considering the average (snatch-)thief or mugger isn't a well-educated, IT-literate bloke. He'll want it because it *looks* expensive and valuable, as any shiny piece of hi-tech hardware does :P


RE: Ehhh....
By Griswold on 3/16/2006 6:11:10 AM , Rating: 2
5g of semtex inside such a device or your handbag and a little button will teach them thieves a lesson.

Its right up there with the carbomb-anti-theft-security-system.


RE: Ehhh....
By ShadowD on 3/16/2006 8:04:43 AM , Rating: 2
If devices like this one become anywhere near as prevalent as mobile phones (every 10 year old has one and is saving up for a $500 AUD one) then thieves will eventually stop bothering (these a arm-computers, so almost nobody will really care how good they are and everyone will end up with $20-$50 dollar ones).


RE: Ehhh....
By AnnihilatorX on 3/16/2006 7:41:03 AM , Rating: 2
Didn't it mention it has a GPS tracking device?


Leela?
By Cygni on 3/15/2006 9:24:09 PM , Rating: 2
Anyone else hear the Futurama themesong when they look at this thing? ;)b




RE: Leela?
By BillyBatson on 3/15/2006 10:35:43 PM , Rating: 2
LOL yup thing i thought of was Lela but i think hers was a lil more advanced ;)


RE: Leela?
By spwrozek on 3/16/2006 12:05:00 AM , Rating: 2
I don't know man. In season two episode 14 - How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back, she sends out a tracking device and they follow it using her wrist computer thing. The out put comes back not as a GPS tracking but a voice saying cold, warmer, hot hot hot! I think this thing may have her beat.


RE: Leela?
By KristopherKubicki (blog) on 3/16/2006 12:53:48 AM , Rating: 5
In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchys skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

... er yeah.


RE: Leela?
By BillyBatson on 3/16/06, Rating: 0
RE: Leela?
By LarsK on 3/16/2006 3:34:29 PM , Rating: 2
Didn't the alien from Predator have one of these things?


looks like it would geet sweaty underneath...
By aguilpa1 on 3/16/2006 9:13:58 AM , Rating: 2
I want one I can hang on my belt and hooks into my shades to project an HUD hi res display




By Scabies on 3/23/2006 12:55:54 PM , Rating: 2
I distinctly remember a TV commercial as much as five years ago where there was a man in an urban area negotiating a voice controlled stock market on this micro screen/projector that hung right in front of his eye (much like the one from Perfect Dark) yelling SELL SELL SELL as the birds scattered, with the ending screen "coming soon" fading in as he took a call. Never happened.
Surely, a PDA-type device that could interface with compatible eyewear HUD style would be the coolest thing ever. It could sense how far your hands are in front of you and simulate a keyboard that only you could see. You'd look like a dork though, typing on air. That, if you didnt walk into something first.


80s movie
By Goobuntu on 3/16/2006 9:05:10 AM , Rating: 2
Anyone remember that early 80s movie where the guy has the wrist computer that can shoot a laser? He goes back in time... gets caught by cops for something... I can't remember more.




Sweet!
By DavidJ on 3/15/06, Rating: 0
RE: Sweet!
By PLaYaHaTeD on 3/15/06, Rating: 0
RE: Sweet!
By Griswold on 3/16/06, Rating: 0
RE: Sweet!
By bohhad on 3/16/06, Rating: 0
"Google fired a shot heard 'round the world, and now a second American company has answered the call to defend the rights of the Chinese people." -- Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.)











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