Besides cost, poor design is the biggest barrier to adoption for both HIT and medical devices. When I saw the photo of Asus' thumb keyboard designed for their new ultra mobile PC (UMPC) I was reminded of Graffiti, the handwriting recognition user interface Palm developed for their PDAs. Graffiti was one those things that sort […]
A European embedded computing
company has announced a wrist-worn wearable computer that runs
embedded Linux or Windows CE (press release). Eurotech's WWPC (”wrist-worn PC”) provides typical PDA type capabilities, along with several wearable-specific features. Target markets include emergency
rescue, security, healthcare, maintenance, logistics, and “many other”
applications.
One of the cool features is what they call their tilt and dead […]
