Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen 199
chris writes "Citizen has unveiled a miniature PDA concept considerably smaller than existing PDAs. The 60 x 90 x 9.3mm 16-colour grayscale PDA is just a bit bigger then a credit card." A bit too large to stow in one's wallet, but it's still a slick form factor, easily hid in a pocket. It runs ITRON4 for an OS, and the battery life is rated at 30 hours.
Next gen? (Score:2, Funny)
ouch my freakin eyes... (Score:2, Funny)
*goes back to playing with color VGA Zaurus PDA*
Yumm..
Oxymoron alert! (Score:5, Funny)
I know what they mean, but it's a little misleading.
Smaller PDA -- that's what I need (Score:4, Funny)
just one step closer to my dream.. (Score:0, Funny)
I've been practicing input techniques for years, with stuff I found around the house (bit of rubber tubing, an old fluourescent lamp, raw zucchini). I've come up with a great way to enter words at roughly 3-4 per minute. Sadly, none of the major PDA manufacturers seem interested in my ideas for input methods (even Apple, you'd think they'd be all over an anthropomorphic design like this).
A man can dream, can't he??
Re:You're thinking of the REX 6000 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sure it's small... (Score:5, Funny)
What happens if you get your pants stolen (I don't want to imagine the scenario where this would happen, but bear with me) when you're carrying your mp3, your cell phone, and your pda and who knows what else? Soon our laptops will be the size of credit cards (that unfold or something for the screen). We don't need house insurance anymore, we need pants insurance. You know what? I think I'll invest in pants insurance. Listen, you heard it here first.
Re:Sure it's small... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You're thinking of the REX 6000 (Score:3, Funny)
Symbolics PDA.... (Score:2, Funny)
This is the fevered dream of a romantic, but I'd pay money to see a Lisp-based PDA. An actualy Lisp Processer isn't necessarily what I mean; a powerful commercial [franz.com] or a free and powerful [cons.org] Lisp interpreted for x86 (or any von Neumann) processor would be okay. What I want is for it do have a Genera-like OS that can be re-written in real-time. Man, that would rule.
Ain't gunna happen, though. Unless someone wants to pay me to write it for the PDA of their choice.
Also, it should have a Canesta projection keyboard. I saw them at siggraph, they rock!
njord, Lisp sympathizer
Cold fusion discovered, or...? (Score:5, Funny)
The nameless concept (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Only getting smaller... (Score:1, Funny)
I want one that fits into a slot in my head.